Horrible Experience with the Dress Company tidebuy.com

This week my 16 year old daughter and I have been online looking for prom dresses.  It reminded me to ask my older daughter (in college) how she ever came out with trying to get her money refunded on a dress she ordered online from a site called Tidebuy.com.  

She found a dress she wanted to wear for a very special New Year's Eve date.  She is a college student with very little money but she spent the $75 on the dress from Tidebuy.com (plus shipping) and was SO excited.  She waited for it patiently as she was flying to our home 1000 miles away from school for Christmas, and then would be flying directly to Washington state to see her long distance boyfriend and celebrate New Year's.   The day before she flew here the package came.  She was so excited! 

Until she put it on.  The dress was beautiful until a human put it on.  The roushing was pretty, but they had ripped the fabric and there was a spot where it hung down and was not sewed in the seam.  That was fixable with a little thread and needle but the top.  Oh my.

The top of the dress was CUT POORLY.   Someone cut the top completely crooked so that a good 4 -5 inches were missing from the side of the bust.  One side was fine, the other cut off so short that half of a boob hung out.  Since I sew, she asked if I could fix it.  We debated many different ways and even thought about buying a lace half top to wear over it, but nothing worked. 

Their site promises returns and disputes if you contact them within 7 days and take pictures to prove your case.

They LIE.  It ends up they are out of China and make the 'copy cat' dresses you see on the site.  I'm sure they normally do a good job, but on orders like this where the product is so badly made it's unwearable, they DO NOT STAND BEHIND THEIR PRODUCT nor their website promise.

Actually, they hide behind their sudden 'lack of understanding English'  and answered emails with "we are sorry you do not like your dress."   They answered every one of her emails this way until she finally gave up (which I'm sure is what they plan on people doing.)


It's ripped, it's cut wrong.  It's missing an entire piece of fabric.  But they wouldn't return her money even though she would pay the shipping to send the dress back to them to see for themselves.

In the end it was almost $100 wasted for a dress that is unwearable.  We spent two days in a rush, shopping to find her a new dress the week of Christmas. 

Feel free to order if you wish, but be WARNED.   Tidebuy.com  is a website we will NEVER buy from again.  

And - although I almost never, ever do this -  as a Mom who saw her daughter taken advantage of and money pretty much 'stolen' from her, I decided the least I could do is warn others about prom dresses and homecoming dresses and wedding dresses from that site. 

You may not get what you were promised... and the dress might be so badly made it's unwearable.

Putting up moulding....

The relocation to the new house was busy and full of cleaning, repairing, decorating in the first two weeks.  There was so much to be done and so many things to purchase before we could even 'live' here (a refrigerator, washer, dryer, mattresses and beds....)   that soon the funds ran out for big ticket items so right now the decorations and such all come dependent on the cash flow. 

Because of this some of the projects I had hoped to be posting on the site have slowed down or stopped as well.

This is a hint I found on the internet a few months ago and is a simple, common sense answer to installing baseboard moulding evenly around the room.  I had saved these two photos in my personal files to use for future reference. 

Use a block of wood the height you need to moulding to be and simply slide it around the base and install your molding on the top edge.  Brilliant.

 

Homemade Granite Countertop Cleaner

We've been so busy since we relocated to the new state that a lot of post ideas, photos, recipes, etc. have sat in files on my computer with no time to post.  This is one I found a few months ago and tucked away for my own use, as our new home has granite counters in 2 of the bathrooms and the full kitchen.  Specialty granite cleaners at the store are so expensive.  When the bottle of special granite cleaner I bought when we first moved in is empty, I'm going to refill it with this mixture.




Granite Cleaner

1 quart sized spray bottle (can buy at the Dollar Store or Target)
Rubbing Alcolhol
Dawn dishwashing liquid
scented oil of your choice (lemon, lavender)

Fill the empty spray bottle 1/8th full with rubbing alcohol.  A just one or two drops of Dawn dishwashing soap.  If you choose to use a scented oil, add two or three drops now.  Fill the rest of the way with water, shake gently to mix. 

Remodeling the nursery for another new baby

Guest post written by Elizabeth Nielson

We knew even before we had our first baby that we didn't want to stop there. We always talked about having at least two kids and that if it was meant to be, we would have a third. Well, we're going to be having our second baby in a few months and we're starting to think about decorating the nursery. (I put it off for a little bit to deal with the holidays.) Luckily, I got the idea to let Mikey, our toddler, move into the guest bedroom to use as his new bedroom so we already have a nursery to work with when it comes to fixing it up for our new bundle of joy!

We still have most of our nursery stuff, but it never hurts to look up and see if that stuff is still deemed safe. While I was online looking up some of that stuff, I ran across a website talking about remodeling services for kitchens. That's something else that our growing family needs.  All of our existing stuff seems to be up to current code, so our nursery remodel is going to be even easier than I had originally thought. It definitely needs a fresh coat of paint though.