Posted on 05/22/2019 6:43:22 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Pawesome!!!
Two useful pillows max per couch or loveseat. No more than one on a chair.
When I bought a condo it came prefurnished with it’s own assortment of throw pillows. One was particularly annoying. It had shiny little metal discs sewn into it. So completely and totally unusable as an actual pillow. It hit the garbage chute the first day.
Ties are very annoying too. Especially us double chin fellows.
I will admit a nicely dressed man with a noticeable tie does make an appearance. Just not worth the discomfort in 99 percent of the cases.
Yeah, but the cats and grandkids like flomping on them, so I'm kinda outvoted on the deal. I just try to get the rustic-looking ones and keep my mouth shut.
‘I do not like throw pillows. I find them annoying.’
This may be one of the most brilliantly honest statements I have read anywhere.
I hate throw pillows.
I am always getting the ‘put one behind your back it will make you more comfortable’ spiel.
Makes me sit in an extremely uncomfortable position. I also find I am always having to toss them somewhere else in order to use the furniture they crowd out.
Loved reading this admission that needed to be said!
The dog is also laying against my head giving me fleas.
Worse is a bed made with 400 decorative pillows you couldn’t sleep on. It’s like piling boxes of cereal onto your car front driver seat. Every time you get in, you have to put them somewhere, then you have to put the boxes all back onto the driver’s seat when you arrive at your destination. Same thing.
Pointless work. Not decorative in any cool way, either.
You are reminding me of my grandmother’s sacred special towels. She would use them but no one else was allowed to take them out of her cabinet. They were white with only a few springs of lavender flowers on green tendrils. Very pretty. I hated that I couldn’t use or even touch them as a child.
Eventually I ended up with these towels 20 years later, and enjoyed using them as casual beach towels, knowing grandma would have freaked out over it. As they grew ratty, I gave them to our housekeeper to use as rags. And enjoyed that, too.
So you’re saying my 400 boxes of cereal in the front seats are bad?
I’ve been working for the family business in Texas for the past sixteen years. Mostly contracts working after hours at various businesses.
I haven’t owned a suit in years, and all of my shirts are fishing guide shirts with mesh panels and huge pockets.
I still have a rack of nice ties though, even though I don’t have clothes to wear them with.
Another home furnishing that the wife loves, but makes no sense to me: Sheer Curtains.
They don’t block the sun or darken a room for TV watching or sleeping. They don’t let you see outside clearly. At night, in a lit room, you can’t see out, but those outside can see in. Quite non-functional.
At least we have only 4 throw pillows in the LR, and none on the beds.
I loathe ties (and suits).
The pillows on our couch (I had some already when my wife married me and moved in) are for:
—lower back support
—raising legs when lying down
—under the head for, you might have guessed, napping.
Yum.
Though usually in the form of Good’n’Plentys.
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:)I wish {eyeroll}
I can’t keep my wife from using ours (an antique; my parents bought it at a secondhand store when were newlyweds, in 1963) as “temporary storage”.
Some of the stuff on it has been there more than a month.
Throwing out a throw pillow would take up around 1/4 of my local government mandated trash bin so typically i would have to “throw” it on top of the other pile of junk on the other side of my two car garage.
gonna have to spend many hundreds of bucks soon to get rid of all that junk.
nice....
Maybe i’ll just rent a truck and dump it all in the woods or something.
Let my tax dollars clean it up.
You got it - throw pillows are only good for throwing aside so one can use the furniture as intended...or, on a sofa, one can make a decent pillow if one wants to recline while watching the tube - but the woman of the house frowns on it because it eventually makes the pillow “too comfortable” looking to be an aesthetic show piece...
Today’s throw pillows usually have a foamy stuffing that doesn’t provide much support.
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