The downside of shopping second hand

Sometimes I just hate shopping second hand. When you know exactly what you want and everybody else wants the exact same thing (no, I’m not pretending that my taste is the least bit original). Like a nice vintage sofa for example. Just lost the bidding on this one on Lauritz:

And late last night I found two other sofas on Blocket. Perfect, really close by and not too cheap so that they would be gone straight away I thought. Since I’m polite I didn’t want to call at that hour so I just e-mailed and then phoned this morning. Too late, of course. I should have known.

Some people might think that the chase is half the fun but I just hate it. When I know what I want I want to have it right away. I have very limited patience. :-(

(image Lauritz)