If you live in the Chicagoland area, Grants Appliance is a place you want to stop. They have everything from washers and dryers to stoves to dishwashers to mattress and plasma tvs. I am sure they even have plasma tv mounts there! We first started using Grants when we lived in Aurora. They pretty much beat every price around. If they don’t the make and model that you are looking for on their show floor, they will order it for you (we did this with our dishwasher!). In my current house, we bought the washer, dryer, dishwasher, and stove from them. Their delivery guys are great too! If you are looking for brand name items for a great price, Grants is your one stop shop!

I wrote about this wonderful item over at My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings too, but my new Simmons Beautyrest Mattress rocks. If you are in the market for a new mattress, definitely look at these. I did not realize how badly we needed new mattress. I was constantly waking up with a backache from our other bed. I was wondering if I need to take some diet pills to help lose some weight. However, our other mattress was about seven and a half years old. Since we have gotten the new mattress, I have not had a backache since. You literally just melt right into the mattress. It is so soft and so comfortable. I wish I was laying there right now. Oh wait, I have a laptop — I can be laying there right now!

This is a local store for me. I don’t think they are a national wide chain. However, if you live in the Chicagoland area, you need to stop at Darvin Furniture for your furniture needs. I am pretty sure that their sales people work on commission. However, you don’t feel them breathing down your neck while you are looking. I have never found a time when I couldn’t find a salesperson to help. The salespeople are extremely knowledgeable and helpful. They carry almost all of the name brands of furniture and mattresses. They also have great financing deals going all the time. The only thing is that you need to put down a third of the purchase price. You can use cash, charge, or even money from your checking account. At this time, we have bought our kitchen table, our living room set, and today, we just bought new mattresses from them. We wouldn’t keep going back if this wasn’t a great store to shop from.

With all the money you can save with them, you can start looking at vacation packages, train travel, and cheap flights to rome. I know we were able to take our savings and use it for such things. What I didn’t know was that there are a bunch of airlines I never heard of like turkish airlines, go airlines, and spirit airline. I wonder if those are as easy to use as an
american flight schedule? Nothing is worse when you are trying to book a flight, and you can’t figure out the airlines schedules especially when you have to make a transfer.

VisionBedding is a one stop shop for Teen Bedding, Kids Bedding, and Children’s Bedding . The motto of the company is: “Your Bedding should be as Unique as You!” and they certainly follow through on that. They have a lot of unique designs that you will not see anywhere else. For example, have you seen bedding that looks like before? (I know my sister will love these.)

I just picked out a couple of styles that I wouldn’t mind having on my bed. There are a ton of other designs to pick from also. Once you have decided on a style that you like, there are several buttons that you will see to the left of the design. You can choose from twin duvet, twin bedspread, queen duvet, queen bedspread, kind duvet, throw pillow, pillow sham, bed blanket, throw blanket, and lap blanket. At this point, you are able to click on what you are looking for. Once you have decided, you are able to see the price and some other detailed information such as the size, the thread count, and washing instructions. The bedding is made here in the United States.If you cannot find a design that you like, you are also able to use your own photographs. They have several different options that you can do. You can have the entire top of the bedspread/duvet, 1 mattress size image, 4 picture collage, 6 picture collage, 9 picture collage, or a 12 picture collage. Your creativity is the limit here.

If you like unique, then this is the place for you. I have never seen these designs before, and I love that you can make your own.