Saturday, January 30, 2010

Its Renovation Tax Credit Eve!!


Big box shopping centres don't usually score very high on my priority list of places to spend money. But why? Well, of course, because their staff are usually underpaid, they purchase goods produced in countries with lax child labour and labour standards laws, and they inevitably outcompete the smaller locally owned businesses, by selling things for only a few dollars less, or having a wider variety of stock. Because we all need to choose from 50 different models of forced air register covers....surely the 10 models you'd find at the mom and pop shop would never suffice.

The big box shop would argue that they employ more people, thereby stimulating the local economy even more....however what economic value does a part-time earner of $10 an hour hold to the community-compared to say a full time income earner bringing in $50,000 per annum.

Alas, enough of my rant. After learning that the Durham region re-store hasn't the items we need, and that it isn't frequented as much as the re-stores in other regions (meaning lower turnover of stock), and searching kijiji for a while for our supplies and coming up empty....we head to the local Home Depot, in a mad dash to purchase as many products for our renovations as we possibly can because its "Renovation Tax Credit Eve"!!!!.

That's right. You heard it. Tomorrow is THE last day to purchase goods for home renovations to claim our govt's incentive to upgrade your home and get a credit for your purchases against your taxes.

So, lists in hand of what we need, we were off to the Depot last night already. Did some pricing, got a kitchen faucet. Confirmed this am that it matches the light fixtures already in place. Got a quote on the kitchen counter tops-ouch!!! Then we're off to 'millwork' for another quote-they're cheaper. But wait-they need 4 weeks to fabricate....ok...so back to the Depot (after trading Mr.J's car for cousin J's van) to get one piece from them. Out of stock. Right now we're just having a wee break for coffee, and to let Mavie (our cocker spaniel puppy) go to the loo...Then we're back to the Original Depot, to get the first thing we saw last night (of course). We will get one custom made piece from the local shop, and it will be 4 weeks.

We also managed to score some forced air heating registers, a bathroom faucet, knobs for the bathroom, and a new broom in this ordeal.

More later-back to the box.

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