Hey, Restoration Hardware!
I Have a Bucket for Laundry
Guess who has a new stainless steel bucket? That's right---I do!
It is sitting (in the photo above) right where I used to toss my dirty socks, tee shirt and underwear before going to bed.
I bought my new pail from Restoration Hardware in Old Town. The store is going out of business and has marked everything down by forty percent.
Let me see. It was originally priced at $30. Forty percent off means I paid $18.
What a bargain!
Now my dirty laundry is tossed into my shiny bucket and now I am that much more refined than before.
I sure am glad I own this new container.
Hmmm.......I wonder if I could use another. I guess I'll just have to grab the Rubester and check out the dog-friendly store again later today.
Restoration Hardware, I will miss you.
7 comments:
Much tidier. You've moved up in the world! Plus it totally matches the sleekness of the rest of your room.
By the way, you met my friend Lucy at the vet's office recently. She loves Ruby.
That is a beautiful bucket but I'm sad to hear the Restoration Hardware is going out of business. I always do some of my Christmas shopping there.
Whoa. I worked for Restoration Hardware during my senior year at HSU in 1990. I didn't actually work in the Old Town store, but in their "sister" store in Bayshore Mall, which was trying to be a Williams-Sonoma clone. I think the name was Skylar Falls, or something close to that.
Does anyone know if the founder, Stephen Gordon, was still running the Old Town store in 1990? Or had he passed the torch to someone else by then?
I remember having to face the owner (whose name escapes me, of course) in the Old Town store in order to quit my job and get my final paycheck. Very uncomfortable situation, since he couldn't keep people working in that horrible mall store and literally begged me not to quit. The store lasted only a few years, if that.
Now I wonder if that was Stephen Gordon I had to face. I have no idea when Restoration Hardware really took off and became a national chain. The second store was set up in Mendocino around 1985, so I guess it's possible that was him.
And great bargain on the bucket! I'm afraid we're going to be seeing more bargains like this in the retail sector, as the economy continues to worsen. I'd be surprised if more Restoration Hardware stores don't end up closing by summer.
Very sad to know the store is closing. I've been in several of them, and the original store in Old Town was by far the best.
Isn't it an ice bucket?
nice & shiny! =) and whatever its original intention; things are easily repurposed!
was wondering though: it's just the RH location in Eureka closing right?? there's a location in Berkeley (with some snooty sales manager if memory serves) that was real nice to window shop at.. I don't know how much business they do but I'd hate for the corporation as a whole to go out of biz.
Someone in the store told me it was a milk pail! I'm not sure how many milking cows there are in Humboldt. I was thinking this morning how I could use another for my daily newspapers--The Times-Standard, San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times.
Pamela, I'm not sure how many stores are closing, but they claim to be closing no stores. Even in Eureka, signs on the window say it's only a sale, not goodbye. Still, with an upcoming 80% off, it's clear the store is closing.
well, with the economy in the crapper, I noted that a lot of places at the Glendale Galleria were taking steep discounts up to 75% off in some cases. They say it's to ride themselves of the inventory to get the 2009 Spring merch. in and I guess that's believable.
I know at Disney World the cast discounts of 40% off usually end around Christmas were extended to mid February! Also there were considerable discounts going on when we were on vacation BEFORE Christmas.. 40% off tshirts for guests and other stuff.. that's VERY out of the ordinary for Disney.
Anyway, the economy is hurting retail in general.
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