Comments on: Day 174 – Are you a Home Depot or Lowes Person? http://sanford365.com/day-174-are-you-a-home-depot-or-lowes-person/ Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:43:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Allison McDonough http://sanford365.com/day-174-are-you-a-home-depot-or-lowes-person/comment-page-1/#comment-112 Allison McDonough Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:32:27 +0000 http://sanford365.wordpress.com/?p=1135#comment-112 I'm absolutely a Home Depot girl, through and through. I find that Lowes generally doesn't have what I want, and when they do it's more expensive. The employees at Home Depot are also great--they usually ask what kind of project I'm working on and they get excited to give me tips about how to make it more effective and ways that I hadn't thought of. My only complaint is that the Home Depot website is impossible to navigate. You can't do online research of their inventory before you go to the store because a lot of what they have in stores isn't listed online. You just have to go the store trusting that they have whatever you need in stock. I’m absolutely a Home Depot girl, through and through. I find that Lowes generally doesn’t have what I want, and when they do it’s more expensive. The employees at Home Depot are also great–they usually ask what kind of project I’m working on and they get excited to give me tips about how to make it more effective and ways that I hadn’t thought of.

My only complaint is that the Home Depot website is impossible to navigate. You can’t do online research of their inventory before you go to the store because a lot of what they have in stores isn’t listed online. You just have to go the store trusting that they have whatever you need in stock.

]]> By: New Homeowner http://sanford365.com/day-174-are-you-a-home-depot-or-lowes-person/comment-page-1/#comment-111 New Homeowner Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:33:12 +0000 http://sanford365.wordpress.com/?p=1135#comment-111 Home Depot. HD is cheaper, has better quality brands (when HD or Lowe's has an exclusive or strong agreement with a manufacturer), offers more "pro" products and offers more extensive services. It seems HD sells more stuff for when you want to DIY and know what you're doing, but they also offer more extensive services for the times when you just want to pay someone else to do it. Here's another point in favor of HD, they frequently offer no payments/interest for 12 months. Lowe's never seems to do that. We just bought a house and floated a new roof and windows for 12 months until we can get a home equity line to pay it off. It's nice to defer payments on stuff you really need but can pay for right away because of the big fat down payment you just made... Home Depot.

HD is cheaper, has better quality brands (when HD or Lowe’s has an exclusive or strong agreement with a manufacturer), offers more “pro” products and offers more extensive services.

It seems HD sells more stuff for when you want to DIY and know what you’re doing, but they also offer more extensive services for the times when you just want to pay someone else to do it.

Here’s another point in favor of HD, they frequently offer no payments/interest for 12 months. Lowe’s never seems to do that. We just bought a house and floated a new roof and windows for 12 months until we can get a home equity line to pay it off. It’s nice to defer payments on stuff you really need but can pay for right away because of the big fat down payment you just made…

]]> By: Adam http://sanford365.com/day-174-are-you-a-home-depot-or-lowes-person/comment-page-1/#comment-110 Adam Sat, 09 May 2009 00:37:51 +0000 http://sanford365.wordpress.com/?p=1135#comment-110 Interesting that you think being green is about saving the environment and not about saving money. My view of reality is exactly the opposite; our world is motivated by green (as in greenbacks, the color of cold, hard cash), and we will never stop burning coal to make electricity until solar/wind/nuclear is cheaper, we will never stop burning gas in our cars until electric cars are cheaper (the only production electric car I know of, the Tesla roadster, is still over $100k), and a lower middle class family with kids and limited income will buy an affordable house with no "green" features so long as said features substantially add to the cost. Some people feel good about spending more money to go green, but the real way to save the world is to develop and engineer green solutions that are competitive and cost effective. Otherwise, being green will remain a niche hobby for the rich. Interesting that you think being green is about saving the environment and not about saving money. My view of reality is exactly the opposite; our world is motivated by green (as in greenbacks, the color of cold, hard cash), and we will never stop burning coal to make electricity until solar/wind/nuclear is cheaper, we will never stop burning gas in our cars until electric cars are cheaper (the only production electric car I know of, the Tesla roadster, is still over $100k), and a lower middle class family with kids and limited income will buy an affordable house with no “green” features so long as said features substantially add to the cost.

Some people feel good about spending more money to go green, but the real way to save the world is to develop and engineer green solutions that are competitive and cost effective. Otherwise, being green will remain a niche hobby for the rich.

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