I was sleeping on an air mattress and wanted something a bit firmer that did not deflate as I was sleeping, so I decided to puchase a futon. I shopped around online and had terrible luck…as usual. Shopping online in Canada is a complete fucking joke…it is terrible. The US has it really lucky…you can find something, buy it, and not worry about customs or insane shipping prices.
Anyhow I finally found a few places and decided to check them out. I ended up going with “the futon shop”
Futon Shop The
519) 836-1883
23 Wellington Street East
Guelph, ON
They had a pretty good selection, and the woman who showed me the products was terrific. I ended up getting a spring core futon with foam surrounding because it has more give to it, and is way more comfortable for extended periods of sitting on your ass watching movies…which I happen to love doing.
I will be going back there to look at futon frames with the lady friend once she decides when she wants a new futon frame.
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could not agree more about online shopping — the border is like a shopping firewall the minute you want something large!!!! nobody wants to be a customs broker for residences. good luck and good sleeping.
[…] So it has been 8 weeks, I went from sleeping on a floor to an air mattress to a futon mattress to now a memory foam mattress and my desk has been a pilates ball and a folding table I stole from work, a nasty change from my sweet herman miller mirra chair. I cannot wait to get the rest of my belongings up here and complete this terrible move. […]
Online shopping in Canada. It sucks. It is actually one of the few things that sucks more than shopping at a mall in Canada.
People who object to free trade, NAFTA and all that should really try shopping in Canada. They would drop their hippie ways and join capitalism … in a minute*.
*unless they are Canadian in which case, they will think everything is okay as it is