The Search For The Perfect Sofa
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lazy
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No one wants their Grandma's Couch.
You know what I'm talking about. That floral-patterned, overstuffed monstrosity that may have been great to sit in or jump on at Nana's place, but you wouldn't want in your own living room. I should know, I have a Grandma's Couch. A big ugly unwieldy oatmeal colored recliner loveseat. Ucka.
It is, however, the last piece of bachelor furniture in the house, and the hub-unit and I are both loathe to get rid of it due to the memories it carries (good for him, blurry for me...). This weekend, however, we decided to go looking, just in case. We're a hip young (well, I am anyway) couple, we should have cool furniture. On this island, that means scrounging in the sale section of Oak Harbor Furniture just down the street from us.
We kind of wanted to check out the Todd Oldham collection from Lazboy, because he's very cool and the unit has a major crush on his snap sofa. We actually found an ENTIRE living room set for 2500, and that's fucking GREAT, if you consider that the sofa alone is 1100. It was a rug, two tables, two lamps, toybox ottoman, recliner, chair and matching ottoman, and the sofa. I wanted it, and I wanted it BAD. However, there are several reasons why this was complicated:
1. I have a husband I have to consult now;
2. I don't have a job, and must rely on reason #1's income;
3. It was green.
I kinda liked the green, but the unit was a little skeptical because that meant the we would have to buy matching curtains and spend even more money which we didn't have. Which lead to the most daunting of the complications:
4. Financing.
The hub-unit had bad credit and fixed it, but now he has no credit. It was hard enough getting a loan for our car, and now we were going to attempt to buy an entire living room? Can you say "limited credit balance"? We were SO denied. We were both kind of upset, but it also made us heave a huge sigh of relief at the same time because we'd have to pay at least 250 a month if we wanted to make the 12 months same as cash thing. And believe me, you don't want the 12 months of interest tacked on just when you're so close to finish making payments.
Time to take it to the Internet!
Some random obsos:
Watched a marathon of the Surreal Life yesterday on VH1 in a countdown to I Love the 90's last night. I was more amused by Vanilla Ice than anything. He was ranting and raving, and I mean in an ugly, self-righteous way, about how he didn't want to be associated with the whole "Vanilla Ice" thing anymore. He said he didn't want to be as the joke anymore, how he wanted to be taken seriously and some such nonsense and that the cheese factor on the show was getting too high.
Hate to break it to ya, Rob ol' buddy, but EVERYONE on the show is just that: cheese. Tammy Faye Messner, Erik Estrada, Traci-fucking-Bingham for god's sake, are all caricatures. They're all extreme has-been's who may have made their way after fame and fortune, but will never regain their mass stardom. They've all been mocked constantly, and they always will be no matter what they do. It will always be in the back of our minds, no matter what they do. Sorry dude, but SUCK IT UP.
And by the way, I HATED the 90's.
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