• Dave@lemmy.nz
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    5 days ago

    My parents didn’t buy good furniture until after I left home. They always said they would when the kids were gone but I moved out and my first visit they had new furniture, so I’m pretty sure it was me they were waiting for to leave.

    Unrelated, I spilt coke on the new furniture on that first visit.

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      4 days ago

      I have crappy old couches etc…because my three boys are very rough.

      Why buy nice stuff that you have to worry about.

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        4 days ago

        We have never bought new couches. My main chair is older than I am. But I did sit in a chair in a shop the other day and the back was right up behind my head, a surprisingly hard thing to find for someone tall-ish like me. Almost made me want to buy it.

        I hate visiting other people because they have short backed couches that just aren’t person-shaped. Makes me wonder how they sit there for hours.