Wasting Time

     My man has been bugging me relentlessly about "MENARD'S" lately. Menard's is 30 minutes from home, so I have been holding him off for some time now. Since Home Depot is a half mile from our house, that is our go-to place for all things home related. We hate Home Depot, and it's clone, Lowes, but it's a quick drive for most needs.

     Today, we went to the project house and unloaded our new door, we went inside the house and looked around at things that need to be done; more garbage to clean up, more floors to scrape, old radiators still sitting in the middle of the floor. We looked at each other, our breath billowing out in puffs of frozen air ( 24 degrees today), and made the executive decision to go shopping.

     So, we finally made the trek to Menard's in Chesterfield Township. It looked like Costco inside, a giant warehouse; cavernous, and loud, and lots of people milling about. I found it strange that on the aisle with power tools was a giant display of Nacho chips, and next to bathroom faucets were frozen foods. Very odd, but I get the motivation; I might realize that I need some pizza rolls while I am looking for a showerhead.

     I did find that Menard's had a much larger variety of options than Home Depot. We were concentrating on figuring out the type of flooring we would choose for the kitchen. Since we're open to anything; ceramic, vinyl, slate, laminate, etc., we spent quite a bit of time looking at all of the options. We settled on a high-end vinyl flooring (in stock) that is priced right and perfect for our needs. But, wait a minute... it was out of stock. Hmm... just like at Home Depot !!!

     We looked at some smoke alarms, same price as Home Depot. We looked at some kitchen cabinets, same as Home Depot (but out of stock), and we decided that our feet hurt and it was time to stop wasting time here. We grabbed some pizza rolls and toilet paper, and skedaddled...