Bmorris, congrats on your new home-away-from-home!
Your idea with the ship-to-store thing makes good sense if the quality of things you're ordering meets your expectations when you pick them up. Otherwise, it'll be a hassle returning/exchanging things, I'd guess. Aside from that, it seems like a good concept.
We bought our place in TV "furnished" (not totally "turn-key") which made things easier as we're just snowflakes. But we still had to buy bed linens, towels, kitchen small appliances, silverware, plates, glassware, etc., etc., etc. We actually enjoyed the in-store shopping experience - we changed our minds on several things we thought we'd like once we actually saw them in person!
We did as you're planning to do with the televisions we needed to buy, though. We shopped Best Buy online, selected and paid for what we wanted, and arranged to pick them up at the store in TV on 441/27 when we came down for closing. Loaded both into the back of Sandy's RAV4, took them to the house, set them up - no problem-o! Sure beat picking them up locally in OH and hauling them clear down to TV!
Bill
