Consumerism Commentary - Latest Comments in Giveaway: Free Sumo Lounge Omni Chair

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Harlan Landes — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:23 -0000

This giveaway is officially closed. The winner will be contacted shortly.

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Jenny — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:57:03 -0000

Please enter me! Here's something about my furniture: My husband and I were at a yard sale and found this great coffee table you can store stuff in for $35. We were newlyweds and couldn't believe our luck. Then later, some of his parents' friends told us they had an entertainment center to get rid of and asked if we wanted it (they knew ours was particle board and falling apart). We said yes and went to pick it up. Guess what? It matched the coffee table like they were made for each other! It was great. They are still in our living room and are among our favorite pieces of furniture. Our couch, by the way, is the same one that was in my husband's college dorm and we had our first kiss on it when we were dating. Then my mom recovered it for us and it's like new! It has sentimental value :)

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Amy — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:27:10 -0000

My husband and I moved into our first tiny, one bedroom apartment with NOTHING. We sat on the floor eating cereal. We were pretty young. We went to the local Goodwill store and purchased a used couch and chair. Other furniture items were obtained from garage sales. Now, finally, 11 years later - we have all of our OWN furniture!

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Lynn — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:13:27 -0000

In my current house, which is a great little hide-a-way guest house that I rent, the only couch and coffee table were both picked up off the street! The couch was on the lawn of a neighbor's home to be trashed on the large item trash day (its practicallly new) and the coffee table was left for trash near a concert venue!

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Rachel — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:15:29 -0000

I remember my first couch, in fact I still have it. When I moved out of my mothers house I went to a Garage Sale and saw this brownish couch. I did not have one yet so I asked how much, only 20 bucks! I was sold on it!

That was over 5 years ago, I still have it and it has affectionately received the title of 'The Butt Eater', from me, my now husband and my son. It sinks so low lol but its so comfy.

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Catherine — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:06:40 -0000

I am such a furniture magpie. I think most of the pieces that I have are given or found....one day I may actually do the grown up thing and buy some, until then I have my hotch potch of stuff!

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Living Off Dividends — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:53:01 -0000

When i bought my first home, i didn't have any money left over for furniture. So we used the godawful college crap that i inherited from a roommate for 2.5 years.

I also refused to pay $1,000 for a bed frame, so our box-spring sits directly on the floor! but atleast i splurged on the mattress ;-0

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PRIZEY — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:56:07 -0000

Living in SF in the late 90s in the Western Addition/North of Panhandle there was always furniture in the street. I lived in a shotgun apt. with three roommates and our community furniture was almost all street-furnished. There were two nasty couches in the living room when I moved in. Two years later we found another slightly better one on the street so we brought it up the flight of stairs to our apartment, brought one of our old ones down, went back up, came back down to get a last look at the one we'd taken outside, and it was gone.

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Stephanie M — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:49:16 -0000

Hand me downs, Hand me downs, Hand me downs! This seems to be the way I get most of my furniture. So something new and nice would be awesome!

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Adena — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:43:05 -0000

I love this in the fiery red!! My furniture comes from all kinds of places. One of my favorite bookcases was found on the curbside for trash. I grabbed it up, sanded it, and spray painted it. It held all my scrapbook stuff in our last house.

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Angela — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:28:10 -0000

A furniture story? How about this one. I had a matching set of a couch, loveseat, and a chair and when I moved I let my boyfriend, at the time, keep the chair. He put it in the garage and left it there. I come to retrieve it weeks later and there was a dead bird on it...ugh! So the chair got thrown out! It was disgusting!!

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emily — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:44:25 -0000

This furniture is awesome, got a place in mind for it already. One of my pet peeves is inside furniture outside, for example, couches on front porches...you know what I mean...

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James — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:27:06 -0000

Sweet chair!

As this is a personal finance blog, I just found $0.61 between the cushions of my couch. How do I record this? Unrealized funds?

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tsvanacker — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:15:24 -0000

Furniture, ah what a concept. It's meant to provide a nice comfortable appealing place for a person to sit down. As the mother of 4 small children, I have a different outlook on just what furniture is...It is a springboard for little boys, the wall of the castle for little girls, a dumping ground for lazy adults, a napkin for goey fingers and mouths of all little people, and a soft place to throw a tantrum. As for me, the Mom, it is a soft place to bury my head when the day has gotten to rough.

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Maggie — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:39:32 -0000

The very first time I was to ever buy furniture, my boyfriend talked me into letting him pick it out. While I was at work, he went to a Consignment Store and got a puke-green velvet couch with matching chair! WHOA, was I surprised! I wasn't expecting that at all. Now, years later, vows have been exchanged and I am stuck with the velvet couch. I am expecting our first child and new furniture is now a must, maybe a new chair will make my hubby reconsider buying all new things.

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David — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:04:49 -0000

I am the tallest one in a family of 5 at 6'1. My parents and my 2 sisters are all below 5'6. However I am the only one with a twin sized bed still. Both my sisters have queen sized beds and of course the parents are on a King sized bed. They must dislike me (jk) :( haha I have just never seen the need for a larger bed yet.

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Naomi Hattaway — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:34:17 -0000

I LOVE this omni chair! WOW! I dont have a funny story about my first apartment furniture, but about the first time my cat decided to sit on my husband's prized Italian leather chair. Too bad he hadn't been declawed! Ok, maybe it was only funny to me?

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Andy — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:13:03 -0000

My first apartment was furnished by the landlord. He seemed to believe that a dresser and a desk were the same thing because they both had flat surfaces.

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Sarah — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:35:11 -0000

That is such a cool chair! So versatile and comfortable looking! It would be great to have - to be able to move around where ever you need it and use it in a variety of ways. With a few "yung'ens" around the house, it would be so fun to have around!

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jo — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:40:15 -0000

I have been married 35 years and have had the same furniture for 35 years. Boy, would I love this!!!!!

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Mary Jo — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:40:02 -0000

We sold our couch and loveseat on craigslist over a month ago and have been sitting on the floor since then, while we look for new furniture. My back hurts so much! This chair looks so comfy and I think it would look great in our empty living room!

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Joe Warden — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:17:46 -0000

Thankfully the first furniture I needed for my first "on my own" place came from my Dad. He pretty much gave me the furniture he hadn't gotten rid of in the dozen or so furniture purchases he has made over the past decades. My room looked like a 1980's Wheel of Fortune prize gallery (remember the rotating gifts that people had to choose from?). But it was furniture that worked so I was grateful!

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Jon — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:59:37 -0000

We just moved cross country into an apartment (compartment) about 1/4 the size of our old house (1100sq ft >300 sq ft). We had to ditch the couch, queen bed, chairs, DR table, and most of the kitchen items. This would be a welcome addition to our space, as there's little in it except a goofy dog, an evil cat, and two adults with no place to sit.

We stand around in the evening eating ice cream from the container with our two spoons (the rest are in storage and the bowl is in the sink).

On the bright side we miss the stuff, but we've got more "space" than before...

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Amanda C — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:17:39 -0000

I slept on the floor in a sleeping bag in my first college apartment. I could have slept on the couch but I was pretty grossed out by the smells that still lingered from before my roommate rescued it from the side of the road...

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kelly — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:51:08 -0000

In my first apartment I didn't have enough money at first to buy a mattress, so I slept on a blow up with a slow leek. Every morning I'd wake up sunk in the middle of the mattress down to floor with the mattress that still had air in it surrounding me. I had a sore back for months.