Home Depot, my kinda store!

I got the extra 10% off at HD when I found the Dewalt 12" miter saw cheaper at Orchard Supply. Now THAT'S savings. I saved more than $45 by the time they calculated the "deal". That was right after HD moved into SJ. Now I get aggravated with them more often than I'm happy with them. But what's a person to do? I COULD drive 40 minutes to Lowe's (one way)...

dave

John DeBoo wrote:

HAHA! Lucky me...I have three Lowes and three Home Depots all within 15 minutes of me and a Rocker store just 5 minutes away. Oh wait...that's not lucky, I'M BROKE!

Neener Neener Neener

Ha ha! I'm 3 minutes from an Ace Hardware!

Oh, wait a minute . . .

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Halter Sucks!

What a lot of places are doing now adays, including my favorite Amazon.com, is only giving off 10% of the difference, not off the price.

Right next to the Web Designers?

Is this where we say sit down, shut up before you hurt yourself? :)

My only gripe with Home Depot is they sucked up all the lumberyards in a 20 mile radius in the West Suburbs of Chicago, and I wish they'd put a store in there somewhere.

Oh, no fair! You cheated and went out another 5 minutes. Well, if we're going 20 minutes, then add 1 Harbor Freight, 1 Woodcraft, and 1 Paxton's Woodsource..and...and Wal-Mart! So there!

Yep, he's going to twist his arm out of its socket congratulating himself and won't be able to use that shiny new saw while he's healing. :-)

Good grief, man, where do you people live? In my corner of the world you get no more than one store like that per county.

Yup! Narrow aisles and all. When you garb a handfull of nails to put into a little paper bag you get stabbed.

Neat little place with a big propane tank available for fillin' purposes. Right there in good ole Otis Orchards, WA.

Love the name of that little non-town town. Makes me think of Otis Campbell.

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Halter Sucks!

than any other place.... and then there is a hardwood store in villa park on st charles road.... makes my mouth drool every time i drive by.... THAT is a store.... but take you checkbook, plastic, or birthrights to your 1st male child.....

woodworkers' supply in coranado doesn't count?

John DeBoo wrote:

Larry Levinson Talking up to the vocal ... LLevinson*Bloomberg.net (remove the star etc ....)

Where is Otis Orchard (Port Orchard??)? I just KNEW it had to be in WA. Was born & raised just out of the N end of Seattle and my dad was a carpenter so we went to a hardware store in Kenmore for years, and the lumber yard. Jez, a real hardware store. You are truly lucky sir! God, I remember buying walnut when I was in HS there (60's), it was the most expensive wood available in the shop and was 88¢/bd ft then.

Yeah, they're about gone, aren't they?

Is it just me, or do the likes of HD and Lowe's get worse on hardware as soon as they finish killing the last of the old stores? I'll admit to going to Lowe's plenty of times for hardware because it was closer, but I really miss having a real hardware store to go to when I wanted to get something unusual. I regret my unfaithfulness.

I miss being able to browse through them for sure. And the people who'd help. Nowadays its young kids as cashiers only who have no idea what they are selling, and could care less. We still have one

-similar- to the old type and I love going there. Its got a number of older folks working there who are soooo helpful and eager to chat.