Low standards has its advantages



New Chair, originally uploaded by chrisgarrett.

One of the (many) things that frustrate Clare about me is my lack of care about appearances. Really, I am not that fussed about how most things look. I’m a function over form kinda guy in a lot of things.

Most of the time this just causes annoyance for Clare but yesterday it saved me about £50 :)

You see nobody else was buying this ugly yellow/green version of my new office chair so Ikea priced it to sell. Lots of people bought the identical but grey or black version but apparently it being a puky yellow/green makes it less appropriate to plant your ass on for other people.

Me, I thought “who cares what it looks like, let’s buy it”.

Other people might have thought to check it matches the décor. I wouldn’t even know how.

One of the many joys of being me :)

Comments

  1. Jack says:

    I’m impressed, you managed to fight your way into an Ikea store. There was probably less jostling at the Battle of Agincourt than at your local Ikea store of a Saturday afternoon.

  2. Hsien Lei says:

    Being that we’ve never lived in a home of our own (always corporate housing), we’ve learned to turn a blind eye to our furniture. As long as it works, is relatively clean, and isn’t dangerous, we’re cool with it. So congratulations on an excellent buy!

  3. Hsien Lei says:

    BTW, what does this number mean in your post description?

    This entry was posted Posted 0.44465277777778 ago…

  4. @Jack – One of the advantages of going on a week day, it was a small riot rather than a full on conflict :)

    @Hsien – It’s a time stamp, but a meaningless one. I was messing around one day and left it half done :)

  5. Sara says:

    now thats “hawt”.

  6. I hope not – The old chair was leather-effect so I hope this one is actually *cooler* than the last one :P