Those Who Wander in Dunelm Are Not Lost (Dunelm Mill Shop)

Member Name: flutel

Product:	Dunelm Mill Shop
Date:	29/05/09 (47 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Lots of stuff to look at and feel

Disadvantages: Do you really need it?

Dunelm can be kind of addictive. It's problem being that you always think there are going to be more bargains in the shop than there actually is. I don't really know where I got the idea that it was full of bargains in the first place. I know that my step mother gets quite excited about it.

My local Dunelm is a huge shop stuffed with bedding, towels, cushions, material, habadashery, curtains and blinds, rugs and mats, small bits of furniture, pots, fake flowers, cards and a cafe. There are displays of special offers (that rarely seem that special). Lots of things that you pick up and fondle and then put down.



Things that I actually did buy at Dunelm
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This one is the best: I bought organic cotton duvet covers and pillowslips once. The price was right and the quality was amazing. I had just watched a documentary about the evils of clothes production and the deaths involved in producing non-organic cotton (thousands). I found them on a big shop display and bought them. I only wish I'd bought more as they never did return to Dunelm and I was left like a lost sheep bleating around the store for the organic bedding. A sad, sad sight.

A Kath Kidston type cake plate

A big, thick, black fleecy blanket (great for camping)

Some darning needles

A brushed cotton duvet case for my mum (I don't think she liked it)

A door mat



This list is really a testament to how I can't find much that I really, really want - zig-a-zig-ahhhh.



Maybe the shop is just made for browsing; like an internet site but other people seem to queue at the till. Maybe I have been ruined by consumerism and I am doomed to only find recreation in shopping centres and the like.

Summary: Good for those people who want a change from sittin on the sofa.