I am totally fixated on this couch and chair.
They are $100 dollars. They date back to 1997. They are from Ikea, they are frightening and floral and I want them so bad.
I get this way about some bargains, I don’t know why. And not even logical deals, like, “Oh hey, twelve cans of Coke Zero for $3.99, but twenty-four for $4.99? Great!” Because I’ll walk right past that, and then buy a half-liter bottle for $2.50. That’s how I roll — super-shopping feels like failure to me, like “getting good grades” or “being in shape.” It’s a conventional ambition, it’s what normal people get excited about. My consciousness doesn’t allow me those pleasures.
No, I have to get the best grade or just not even bother; I have to drop half my body weight, or there is no point. I have to buy gigantically large objects for the price of a couple of bottles of liquor, or else I might as well just go buy brand new ones. Why else make an effort? If the consequences aren’t comically extreme, why, then anyone can do it.
That guy better not have sold them yet.
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I really hope that they don’t come with those throw pillows. Even as a fierce proponent of the throw pillow, I would have paid an additional $100 NOT to have ever seen those.
Are you nuts?
Go on Craigs List, look under FREE and you will find about fifteen variations of that couch. Wait a week and I bet this very couch will be in the FREE column itself.
So far Craigs List has given me two beautiful couches, a huge office desk, a queen size new mattress still in the plastic and a renovated bathroom(tub, toilet, vanity with sink, medicine cabinet and 125sq ft of gray ceramic tile). For free.
I love how the residents of Toronto renovate so wildly they just give all their furniture away even if they just bought it a few months ago.