Tep, we got our leather couch for $110 on Craig's List. It's served us well for the last almost 5 years. (Holy crap, my kid will be FIVE SOON. We got the couch when I was pregnant.)
It's because you didn't have a strong father figure isn't it?
Joyce ,'Chosen'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
P.M. Marc - Nov 11, 2009 7:05:09 pm PST #18798 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Burrell - Nov 11, 2009 7:33:43 pm PST #18799 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Yay Tom for the fun evening. Fun is good.
Kat, I really liked Where the Wild Things Are. I know this sounds like a strange thing to say of a movie where most of the cast are CGI monsters, but I found it very human.
DH says James Gandolfini was miscast. My biggest gripe was that his monster was named Carol, not Moishe.
juliana - Nov 11, 2009 7:55:32 pm PST #18800 of 30001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
The hard part is lining up a way to get it home, especially since I don't have anyone close who can help move it into my house even if I can get it home.
I do have access to a truck. And I can probs find cheap labor, if it comes to that. (Ask megan!)
javachik - Nov 11, 2009 8:26:52 pm PST #18801 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
j, be careful what you offer! :) (and, thanks!)
Liese S. - Nov 11, 2009 8:39:41 pm PST #18802 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah put me in the expensive tastes but don`t mind used category. Our thrift store living room set was $200 for all three pieces and lasted over six years. When we moved here though, we bought an expensive modern leather couch which looks awesome but is not utterly comfy. It stood up to the dog but not cat. I use discount shopping not to buy cheap things but to buy expensive things for normal thing prices.
Glamcookie - Nov 12, 2009 2:38:35 am PST #18803 of 30001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Microsuede is a cinch to clean, but I don't know how badly the cats might scratch it up.
We have a microsuede sectional with a scratched up arm that my old pal Josie liked to dig her claws into. However, I haven't seen my other cats scratch it ever so maybe it was just her thing. Love my couch, though!
Steph L. - Nov 12, 2009 3:04:25 am PST #18804 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I'm wary of getting a used couch, only because Cincinnati has a bedbug problem of EPIC proportions. And even if someone doesn't *think* their used couch has bedbugs -- i.e., they aren't being malicious and deliberately foisting a buggy couch on someone -- it might still have them without the person knowing it.
I realize that furniture stores could have a problem, too, but it's a lot less likely.
Theodosia - Nov 12, 2009 3:09:01 am PST #18805 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
My mom has a microsuede loveseat from Jennifer that we like so much that my Aunt bought two just like it. No dogs and only one occasional cat around them, so I don't know how it holds up.
I, too, have a Suburu Forester 2005, which could be quieter -- javachik, very interested in how the quietening works out....
Sue - Nov 12, 2009 3:27:39 am PST #18806 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Happy Birthday Jess!
Sparky1 - Nov 12, 2009 3:39:59 am PST #18807 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
Happy Birthday, Jessica!
Teppy, is leather out of the question? I have no idea what cats would do to it, but dog hair and dog slobber are easily cleaned from it.
I, of course, was not smart enough to take my own advice here, and have an expensive couch, which I love, love, love, but which is all wrong, wrong, wrong when someone in the house is in diapers.