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I hate my furniture. It must die.
« on: May 07, 2008, 09:46:59 PM »
Okay, just kidding with the "it must die" psycho-talk.   >:D

Loveseat and recliner: cast-offs from when some "friends" were moving.  When you own a pickup truck, people you know just assume you'll help them move.  (Got some gas money for that shit, right?  You better!)  These particular "friends" (a married couple) turned out to be a major bitch and asshole.  The couch and recliner, aside from being ugly and smelly like their former owners, serve as a reminder of what a sucker I was to put up with their shit for so long before finally abandoning their asses.  BTW, the truck's been replaced with a car, so at least I won't have people asking for help hauling stuff.  (Rent a U-Haul for fuck's sake.  Jeez!)

Office chair: the cheapest one they had at Office Depot at the time.  This was a replacement for the chair before it that broke a wheel and quickly ended up in the dumpster.  So, I get the new one home in its box, put it together, and everything's fine for a few months, then it gradually gets less and less comfortable.  Turns out the shitty design was gradually giving out.  The metal piece that holds up the back of the chair is bolted into plywood, and the plywood is its only connection to the rest of the chair.  Now the plywood is all cracked and if you lean back, it will certainly fall over.  Sitting up carefully and not relaxing as I type this.  Not good for my back.  I hope I can find the receipt for it.  Though these five-wheeled office chairs do okay on the thin carpet of an office, they suck on the thick carpet of an apartment, even with a vinyl mat between the wheels and the carpet.  I'm considering alternatives to the five-wheeler kind before getting the replacement.



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Re: I hate my furniture. It must die.
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2008, 02:47:07 AM »
Well I live by the motto "You get what you pay for"

It's why I'm not surprised when I buy from the cheap end of the scale.

But yeah, helping someone to move always ends in tears.

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Re: I hate my furniture. It must die.
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2008, 07:48:34 AM »

I have almost always had a truck of some kind for moving sound equipment, mainly.

I kept the insides covered with carpet and often refused to put someone's "nasty" furniture anywhere near where I transport my delicate electronic equipment.

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Re: I hate my furniture. It must die.
« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2008, 07:56:45 AM »

I have almost always had a truck of some kind for moving sound equipment, mainly.

I kept the insides covered with carpet and often refused to put someone's "nasty" furniture anywhere near where I transport my delicate electronic equipment.

:D

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I am kinda the opposite of this I almost always have a truck but I'll put all kinds of nasty stuff in it and it's always a mess most people don't want their nice stuff dirtied up :laugh:
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Re: I hate my furniture. It must die.
« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2008, 03:26:27 PM »
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I kept the insides covered with carpet and often refused to put someone's "nasty" furniture anywhere near where I transport my delicate electronic equipment.
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How many times did you have to tell these people "no" before they backed off?  Did they give you shit about it?

Took care of the office chair problem today.  After a dental appointment this afternoon, I stopped by Target and got the cheapest one they had.  (Hey!  Can't afford a $500 deluxe super-ergonomic model at this time (if I had $500 to piss away, it would become the TV I'd like to get, not a chair), and my chair was at the point where any piece of shit would be an improvement.)  It was the "student task chair" and actually does better under the folding table I call a desk.  I didn't throw away the backbuster.  Actually, I found a spot for it in the bedroom.  The right piece of metal might be able to reinforce it when I've got time to fuck with it.  The new chair will probably be busted before the end of the year, but at least the back is connected to the base by metal instead of plywood.

I'll keep the loveseat for a while.  The cats love to claw it up, so I'll just pretend they're clawing up the couch's former owners.   ;D


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Re: I hate my furniture. It must die.
« Reply #5 on: May 08, 2008, 08:08:50 PM »
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I kept the insides covered with carpet and often refused to put someone's "nasty" furniture anywhere near where I transport my delicate electronic equipment.
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How many times did you have to tell these people "no" before they backed off?  Did they give you shit about it?


Usually just once.

It's in the way you say no, mostly.

Besides, anyone who knows me also knows how serious I am about my sound equipment. They wouldn't dare give me any amount of shit.
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Re: I hate my furniture. It must die.
« Reply #6 on: May 08, 2008, 08:25:25 PM »
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I kept the insides covered with carpet and often refused to put someone's "nasty" furniture anywhere near where I transport my delicate electronic equipment.
...

How many times did you have to tell these people "no" before they backed off?  Did they give you shit about it?


Usually just once.

It's in the way you say no, mostly.

Besides, anyone who knows me also knows how serious I am about my sound equipment. They wouldn't dare give me any amount of shit.

I have a friend like you DJing and recording are his life
"Eat it up.  Wear it out.  Make it do or do without." 

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Re: I hate my furniture. It must die.
« Reply #7 on: May 08, 2008, 09:03:59 PM »
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I kept the insides covered with carpet and often refused to put someone's "nasty" furniture anywhere near where I transport my delicate electronic equipment.
...

How many times did you have to tell these people "no" before they backed off?  Did they give you shit about it?


Usually just once.

It's in the way you say no, mostly.

Besides, anyone who knows me also knows how serious I am about my sound equipment. They wouldn't dare give me any amount of shit.

I have a friend like you DJing and recording are his life

It's a past life for me, but I still have a great deal of recording and performance equipment that I will never part with. Once my priorities become less about other things I will closely follow my interest once again.
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Re: I hate my furniture. It must die.
« Reply #8 on: May 12, 2008, 09:29:53 PM »
Don't you have grandparents that die or get dementia? That is how I got all my furniture. I actually have more furniture than I need, and have been told by people to get rid of it because I can't afford a bigger place. My father wonders why I keep the rocking chair even though the springs are somewhat broke (but they are tied back together with string so you don't fall through it or anything. But why on earth would I get rid of rocking chair?  I mean, how awesome is that? A chair to rock in! Some autistic must have invented it a long time ago.
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Re: I hate my furniture. It must die.
« Reply #9 on: May 12, 2008, 09:48:29 PM »

:D I have three rockers.

One of them (my outdoor one) makes the coolest noise!
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Re: I hate my furniture. It must die.
« Reply #10 on: May 12, 2008, 11:16:54 PM »
Don't you have grandparents that die or get dementia? That is how I got all my furniture. I actually have more furniture than I need, and have been told by people to get rid of it because I can't afford a bigger place. My father wonders why I keep the rocking chair even though the springs are somewhat broke (but they are tied back together with string so you don't fall through it or anything. But why on earth would I get rid of rocking chair?  I mean, how awesome is that? A chair to rock in! Some autistic must have invented it a long time ago.

HA! In my family, no one fucking dies, even though there a quite a few that need to...