March 7, 2008

The universe is determined not to let me have a proper kitchen

In my new place there are a couple of key items I need to get for my kitchen. One I already knew I wanted to get, a combi oven thingy. But then when I got the key this week, I found out that the little fridge that was in the apartment didn't belong to the apartment, it belonged to the guy renting it, and he took it with him. So now, even more urgently I needed a fridge, and most of this week I've been looking into buying one.

I found a small fridge last weekend that I liked and I thought I had found a great place online to buy it from: they didn't charge a delivery fee, the fridge was cheaper from them, and you could pay up to 3 months later with no charges or interest added. But just as I decided to order from them I realized it wasn't the right model and they didn't actually have the one I wanted.

So today I went back to the store I had looked around in last weekend with the plan to buy the fridge from them. But they didn't have the one I had seen. Crap. But that's ok, there was another one I decided to get that was similar and a bit cheaper.

The store was offering a buy now, pay later thing where you could pay up to 6 months from now with no charges and no interest. Perfect! I thought, in that case, I'll also buy a combi oven and have my kitchen pretty much sorted straight away and not have to pay for it for awhile! Yay!

A guy helped me out and started taking all my details. They needed quite a lot of info for the pay later scheme and he entered it all and then the computer checked if I was approved for it. And I wasn't. I don't know why. Maybe because I didn't have income for awhile, maybe because the guy spelled my last name wrong, I don't know why, but after all that and after me imagining having proper appliances in my kitchen already when I thought I'd have to wait a couple of months, I was so upset to be rejected by the bank.

It was back to just buying the fridge since I can't afford the oven as well right now and my only option was to pay either now or when it's delivered. So we made arrangements for the fridge, which I had to have planned for delivery in a couple of weeks so it's after I get paid again. I asked if I could pay by credit card, then I could have had it delivered sooner, but they only took Visa and American Express, and I have Mastercard. Who doesn't take Mastercard?! The guy told me they have to pay high fees for Mastercard, so they don't accept it. Aaaghhh... So I couldn't even do that. I left having purchased a fridge at least, but I still felt very deflated. I don't know how I'm going to eat for the next couple of weeks.