More "Buen Fin" Shopping

I mentioned previously that last weekend was the "Buen Fin", the start of the Christmas shopping season when all the stores have sales.

Alejandro and I took advantage of the sales and did some shopping, not for Christmas presents, but for the apartment.  We needed to buy a washer / dryer combo.   Although the washing machine is still working, the dryer above it is not.  A few years ago, the former owner of the apartment had the dryer repaired.  Since this is the second time it has gone kaput, we decided that is time to buy a new one.  We decided on Mabe, the leading Mexican manufacturer of appliances, and a company whose products get very good reviews.  Alejandro has been keeping track of the prices at the department stores as well as at Home Depot and Sam's Club.  On Saturday, we went to the Sears store located at the World Trade Center, just a couple of blocks from the apartment.  Even though Sears in Mexico is an upscale store, their "Buen Fin" price on a Mabe washer / dryer combo was as good as the price at Sam's Club.  Our new washer / dryer will be delivered the first week of December.  (In the meantime, Alejandro has been doing our laundry at his family's home.)

 

We did more shopping on Sunday.  Even though the apartment was left fully furnished, there were some pieces of furniture that I had shipped from Ohio, including two custom-made, Amish end tables which are now in the master bedroom.  I wanted two matching lamps to put on those tables, so we went to Victoria Street in the historic center of the city.  I have mentioned before how the stores on each street in the historic center tend to be devoted to one kind of merchandise... whether it's hardware or electronics or musical instruments.  Well, the specialty in Victoria Street's shops is lamps and lighting fixtures.  We went to several shops, and the lamps were not the style I was looking for (many of them were rather hideous) and most were made in China.  We them came upon this store...

The store is called "Intensive Laiting"... "laiting" is the way the English word "lighting" would be spelled phonetically in Spanish.  In spite of its rather dubious name, the quality of the merchandise in this store was head and shoulders above the others.  Most of the lamps were either imported from Europe or made in Mexico.  We found a pair of Mexican-made lamps that were very simple and tasteful with bases made of wood and ceramic.  Those two are for the bedroom.

We saw another lamp in a similar stye, also made in Mexico.  There was only one left, so we got that for the desk in my office.

If we are ever in need of another lamp, we will definitely go back to "Intensive Laiting".