Showing posts with label comfort. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comfort. Show all posts

Friday, May 16, 2025

10 Things About My Blue Chair

10 Things About My Blue Chair

I love this chair


  • It a thick, dark blue corduroy.
  • I purchase it in 2005 from a Strawbridge's warehouse on Philly for $50. That included the free delivery.
  • To move it, it takes two people.  It's big and wide.
  • I have always wanted a corduroy chair ever since I read JD Salinger's book, Raise High The Roof beam Carpenters. The characters in this book lived in a large apartment in NYC and they had corduroy chairs and they spoke lovingly of the comfort of these chairs. I wanted that comfort.
  • I bought this chair to replace my reading chair and I errored in judgment. This chair is too wide and so my arms fatigue from overextending my arms to the arm rests. Sometimes, I have to stuff a pillow beside my hips to accommodate this annoyance.
  • If I just throw a blanket on me when I am sitting there, it isn't long before I am snoring.
  • At the moment, all of my important papers and passwords are stored in deep in the side of the arms. Sometimes I just reach my hand in there and I find some important paper I had been searching for.
  • It's time to replace this chair. It's 20 years old and fading.  It's a bit lumpy in spots and it has served its purpose. Ive enjoyed it but it's time to go.
  • Just as I decided to give up this chair, I got a notice from the head of maintenance for my apartment building. They are no longer providing the service of removing furniture for us.  We now have to hire a service to pick up the chair.  
  • I called a service and they would come out for just one piece of furniture.  Now I am stuck with this chair that I once loved so much.