new/used stress-effing-less

Lookit him! He's so handsome and Jeep Spice (interior color) colored and comfy, from what I can see it looks like he's the Orion model! He's the single most expensive thing in our house at a whopping $900 but holy crap my working man looks so happy sitting there all leaned back with his feets up!

It's an admittedly awful place to stick him but we've been too busy to re-arrange the room to accomodate him or really arrange the furniture in the living room in any attractive configuration whatsoever. Maybe one day, the current setup allows for maximum puppy zoomies and tugging wars plus I think we just need a new, smaller couch.

Ever since we moved in M has been hoping for a recliner but we all know that traditional recliners are clunky and ugly so we couldn't settle for any old recliner. I promised him for xmas that we'd find him a recliner and go halvesies on it. I actually found this guy on CL one week and emailed the seller right away to no response, alas, they had it posted for $500 so of course someone must have snapped it up. Not so! They must have seen the crazy responses from folks in town and chosen to take him to our local consignment shop where the fates aligned about a week after first laying eyes on him. It was just me in the shop when I saw him so I had the clerk put a "sold" sign on him and call M right away, only then did I realize that the shop had upped the price to $900! We both went in the next day, M was so happy with the chair that we just couldn't say no even with the nearly doubled price tag, we took him home. Fortunately I sell my old clothes at this same shop so I had nearly $100 in credit and a 15% off coupon so we did alright considering new stressless recliners go for $2,500. He's in great shape, one tiny rip in the ottoman. We keep our Mexican blanket and the upside-down ottoman on him when not in use, to keep the girls and their scratchy nails off. So rad!