Assumptions get clerks in trouble: if I want cheap, I'll ask for cheap--find out what I want and need before putting your foot in it.(UNCOMMON SENSE)

Wenatchee Business Journal, November, 2006 by Thresher, Mary V.

Well, I promised myself I wouldn't do it. In the four years my husband and I have been remodeling our 85-year-old farm house, I'd heard it many times: iWell, the cheapest way to go is."

I couldn't help myself. I actually did my patented "eye roll and heavy sigh" that got me sent to many a principal's office in my teenage years.

I wondered what it was about me that made the proprietor think I would want the cheapest for my home. I was dressed for the office (not in the many versions of paint clothes that I have customized over the years with wood stain and plaster). This was building material that would keep my hubby and I from winter's chill and summer's heat. Why would I want cheap? I went to a local company hoping for good advice and good materials....

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