Target

Bins for my closet.

Lucy's closet.

This is going to be a long story but I have been told by my occasionally bossy sisters that I MUST blog about this. So if you have a few minutes read on and enjoy a glimpse into my CRAZY mind.

I have been in project mode lately. I like being in project mode but it doesn't happen very often for me. (Usually I am in unfinished project mode.) David went out-of-town last week for a few days and that will usually get me going.


So as some of you may know Liberty of London has done a design line for Target. I have been waiting excitedly to see the goods! In fact I was seriously considering breaking the Sabbath and heading to Target to check it out as the line debut this past Sunday. I am happy to report that I waited until Monday, so this is what I spent my Monday doing.


Lucy had a doctors appointment Monday early, 8:20. Jess and I also trade kids Monday morning so one of us can go to the school and read with Jack and Truey's class. It was my turn to sit. I met Jess at the school at 9:00. I told her we were headed to Target. I know she was chuckling at me that I would take 3 children to Target rather than wait an hour and go with 1 but like I said I have been anxiously awaiting.


The stuff was DARLING! I wanted all of it, but I was able to focus my ADHD mind on a couple of things. (As many of you know my little boy has ADHD, in researching it I have also diagnosed myself and most of my family members as having some form of the disorder, they do not support me in my diagnosis but people with ADHD can have the ability to hyper focus. You can judge for yourself.)


I decided that I wanted to get some storage bins. These are the cutest bins I have EVER encountered! In my toy room I have a miss mash of bins. It drives me crazy. I like uniformity! I have tried to go back and buy the same bins later but they don't make them any more, this is frustrating. The Centerville Target had two of the bins I wanted all the others were gone. The stuff was already a little picked over at 9 a.m. I left the Centerville Target and decided to head to Layton.


I called Jess to see if she was done at the school yet but she didn't answer her phone so we all got on the freeway heading North. Jess called me a couple of minutes later but I was already going North. I also talked to Kim on my way to Layton and told her I was on a hunt. She laughed. When we arrived in Layton I put Luke, Lucy and Daniel all in the cart and Dan said to me in a confused voice, "Another Target?" Oh yes Daniel. (Just imagine what was going through poor Lucy's head by the end of the day.) While in the Layton store David called me to check on Lucy's doctor appointment. We talked briefly because David is brief and he knew I was at Target with 3 children. We were able to pick up 4 bins in Layton. 2 for Lucy's closet and 2 for mine. I decided they would be very cheery in my closet as well.


We headed back home. I dropped Dan and Luke off at Jessica's and went home for some lunch. We ate lunch, I talked to my dad, he was checking in on Lucy's doctors appointment also. As I was putting my treasures away I remembered my toy room and how I have wished I had the same type bins. I decided that I needed more bins.


We headed to Fort Union. En route to Fort Union Kim called to ask me a medical question about Anna, she asked me "Are you ever home?" I said "Not today, I did not tell her I was going to Target. While we were talking David called. I hung up with Kim before finishing our conversation about Anna. I asked David if there were any Target stores by his office and we concluded that there no Target stores in Salt Lake proper. (I just have to mention here that I hate the Sandy, Draper, West Jordan, South Jordan area. Davis County is MUCH better.)


The Sandy Target did not have any bins, but there was a very helpful Target employee. He printed off a receipt showing which stores had how many bins. He then called the West Jordan Target and put the bins I wanted on hold for me, then he persuaded me to go home and order them on Target.com. We even checked to see if they had the items online. They did and he told me that they even had free shipping but I needed to create an account and he suggested that I do this at home. I thought to myself yes this is silly driving all over the valley, I'll go home.


I came home put Lucy down for a nap and went to order my bins on line. I was checking out and the total seemed way higher than it should be. $105.00 higher! That was almost the same as all the bins! Ridiculous! I placed a phone call to Target.com and said "Really?" I was told "yes, really." So I cancelled my order. I went and pulled out the receipt that the overly helpful Target employee had printed for me and started phoning Targets and putting bins on hold.


A bit later my boys got home from school and Lucy finished her nap. I informed my children that we were going for a car ride. West Jordan was next. On the way to West Jordan Kim calls me back to finish our discussion about Anna and she is in hysterics that I am on my way to my third Target. I do not correct her and tell her no its actually the fourth.


We get to the West Jordan store and we can not find the bins anywhere. I see a worker and ask her if she knows where they are. She tells me they haven't been set yet. I explain to her that the worker from Sandy had called and put the bins on hold for me, could someone please get them out for me. She tells me NO. We aren't allowed to get the merchandise out if it hasn't been set. I'm thinking WHATEVER! I explain to her that I have driven clear from Bountiful and I have been on an extensive hunt for them and they are selling out fast online etc. etc. She is NOT going to help me. There is NOTHING she can do. Nicole is started to feel a little rage coming on, but I remain calm. I explain to her that the line debuted yesterday and they must be running a little behind because it was already suppose to be on the floor. (I should have asked her if she would like to offer me a job because I seemed to know more about it than she did.) She again tells me that there is nothing she can do. So I asked her if I could speak to a manager about it. She informed me that she was a manager, of course she was. So then I had to ask to speak to her manager. Her manager said it was no problem to pull them out for me. (Question, Why are some people by nature helpful and nice and other not so much.?) They actually did have them on hold for me in customer relations like my buddy in Sandy said. West Jordan produced 4 more bins.


Leaving West Jordan store and going to West Jordan SE store. (Why does WJ have two Targets and Salt Lake has zero Targets?) My mom and dad call me. They are headed to Las Vegas. My mom says "What is this I hear about you heading to all the Targets in Utah?" Yes I am and I know that it is crazy. She is very cute and offers to stop at all the Targets along the way to Vegas. Oh won't my dad LOVE that!


Then it occurs to me that I have done this before. About 13 or 14 years ago Target debuted Snowman dishes. I lived in Kentucky at the time and drove all over Louisville searching for dishes. They too were a hot item and I had my mom searching for them here in Utah. I still have them and still love them.


I arrive at WJ SE go in the store, I hand the phone to Isaac and he talks to Grandma while I buy my 4 on-hold bins. Load the kids back in the car, Grandma is still talking to her Grand kids. So I arrive at the South Jordan Target wrap up the conversation with my mother and go in to get my final 4 bins.


Lucy needs to go the the bathroom and this point so we are in the bathroom when David calls me. It is six o'clock and he is calling from home wondering where we are. I tell him that I can not tell him and he starts laughing and says are you at Target again?! At this point I am completely humiliated that I am so obsessive and crazy but I actually think that it is something that my cute husband likes about me. I confess that I am indeed at Target but that we will be home shortly as we are about to leave South Jordan.


We got home just before seven o'clock and Jessica called wondering how many bins I bought? 18 total. All I can say is what a NUT and I have been absolutely thrilled with my Liberty of London purchases. They make me HAPPY! (P.S. Today when I went to work, Lucy told her babysitter Laurie that I had gone to Target. Pretty funny!)