The Crib Diaries

I'm pretty pissed, I'll come right out and say it. About 6 months ago I found the crib and changing table/dresser combo I wanted. Actually, it was one I looked at a year ago for Brent, back when Babies'R'Us carried it. Eventually it was discontinued at that store. When I started my search up for a new crib I found the one I'd originally wanted, and it was on the Walmart.com site and MUCH cheaper. SCORE! And of course Walmart.com has a wonderful program called Site2Store, which means you can choose a store to pick it up at and the shipping is absolutely free! What a great deal right... I couldn't be more excited.

Well a couple of weeks ago I decided to start doing my registry and went to Walmart.com to add the baby furniture of my dreams, and to my horror and dismay, THEY ALSO STOPPED CARRYING IT!!! I'm pretty sure I cried a little, but I tried my best to find it elsewhere. All of the off brand websites I went to wanted some ridiculous amount for shipping, so I decided to hang up the search and try to find a new crib. I kinda put it on the back burner for a few weeks, since I was still feeling a little burned. But a couple days ago I went back to Walmart.com to continue my registry ventures. I liked some of the other cribs, but none of the coordinating pieces. I wasn't in love like I was with "my" crib.

So I decided to try Babies'R'Us to see what they had going on. A lot of their stuff is really cute but it is pretty pricey. Finally I tried Target.com... and guess what pops up? MY CRIB!! Do they just shuffle these thing around to different retailers or what?! After I happily noticed that the price was the exact same at Walmart.com, I looked desperately for some kind of "free shipping to store" banner on the page. I added it to my basket to see if it gives you the option of picking up in the store, and if not how much shipping would be. Of course... just because it's MY luck and I happen to be in LOVE with this set, Target doesn't offer any other option other than home delivery... Great, I got over it, for about 2 minutes until I totalled the order to see the shipping cost. ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DOLLARS?!?! Are they on crack?! And that's standard ground shipping.

So I guess I'm back to square one. I'll probably be either surfing Walmart.com to look at new arrivals every other week or check Target.com and pray they run a free shipping promotion. I'm still pretty sad about it. I put up the pictures from the site, so you can see why I'm so in love with it. I like the fact that it's convertible and the changing table/dresser combo is great because I don't have to buy separate pieces. Maybe I'll just ask for Target gift cards on my shower invitations, lol. :o( OK, I'm going to go pout some more. I hope every one has a great 2009.