We bought some Christmas/winter bedlinen. I think every year when it's too late, that it would be nice to have some special bedlinen for Christmas and this year when we got back from Vienna I got a bit obsessed trying to source some with a Nutcracker theme. True to form I had left it too late and even the multifarious versions on Amazon wouldn't arrive until after Christmas. So I resigned myself.
Then came word that M & Co had gone into administration and were having a sell everything off sale. Since we were in town the day afterwards and since have bought bedlinen from them in the past we decided to go and see what they had and lo and behold we came out with this.
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It's not Nutcracker themed but it is nice and wintry/Christmassy and we got a lot of money off it and the accompanying sheet and pillowcases.
I would have felt a bit like a vulture going in and buying up their stuff cheap, but when the Arcadia Group went into administration a couple of years ago we lost our business so I know what it's like from the other side. And the sad truth is that a) what it can't sell at reduced prices to bona fide customers M & Co will end up offloading to wholesalers for next to nothing and b) they will need every penny they can get to meet their liabilities, and that might well include redundancy pay for its employees. In which case we've made a small contribution to someone else's welfare. And got some Christmassy bedlinen.
Think I will try and remember to look for some with a Nutcracker theme a bit earlier next year though!
Later in life, Dad became the Official Receiver for a number of building firms going bust. He was often horrified by how little the stock could go for. Most of his clients were great builders/craftsmen, just awful at running a business.
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