How I won the Pier One Lottery

It had been a good 5 years on Chincoteague Ct. But it was time for little nip tuck action. Before you start thinking that I got that much needed lipo, tummy tuck, or botox treatment – rest assured that I am still au naturale. This nippin’ and tuckin’ was of the redecorating kind. We decided that since the kitchen was the heartbeat of 301 East, it would be the first to get the face lift. In true Caccavo style, one project always spreads like a giant cancer, but I will save “project spread-age” for another post.

The first thing we did was to update a few appliances. We stuck with black because, frankly, the only other thing I would go to would be stainless and kid-boogers and finger prints aren’t synonymous with stainless.

We changed our counter tops to a nice earth-tone brown granite, and thus the kitchen table and chairs search began. Thankfully that hunt was short-lived because one trip to Pier One and I was in love. The chairs were orange, they were leather (translate: booger-retardant), and they were fabulous. They were not, however, on sale. After a minor furrow of the brow, a flinch, and a few choice words, he hands over the check book. (Yes, that would be Greg.) A few minutes later, they were mine. Ohhhhh lovely, lovely, mine.

A month or so later, my beloved Catherine calls me up on a Saturday to tell me that she had just left Pier One where my faboo-new orange chairs were - shock and horror – now on sale! Not only were they on sale, they were on big time sale. Now normally, I am not so ballsy. But I grew a pair that day, and gave them a buzz. After a two minute conversation, I was in the car on my way to the store where the lovely folks at Pier One (my new favorite store) gave me a three-hundred-dollar gift card store credit. Cha-ching! Can I just say – I love you Pier One.

Of course, in true Kim fashion, there is much much more to this story… Stay tuned…..