Posted: 2/6/2011 9:23:14 AM EDT
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So, today the wife decides to start looking at new sofa's....here is my "argument" for dumping money into a new living room set.
We have 2 large dogs, AKITA'S...The male is 115 lbs. And has hiked his leg and pissed a couple of times on ours. And has destroyed 2 sofa pillows. Now, the argument of owning a used sofa is you don't know the people your getting it from, maybe there have sex spooge on it...maybe they have crabs.... I have looked on Craigs list and found a few that looked good. I know people lie, but ad's saying they are smoke/pet free, bought new a few months ago...blah blah.. I have a good steam cleaner and don't mind it..HOWEVER, the wife unit say's HELL no!! I refuse to dump a few grand when we have large dogs and one that has pissed on it at least 2 times that I know of... And before the post about them being in a create at night and all that....I am not a believer in jailing the dogs up at night..they are VERY protective of the house/wife and son, and I would rather them be able to attack a punk breaking in while I am getting the gun ready to fire. So....would you own a used sofa? |
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No, I would not. And if your dog is pissing on things, you need to work on training him better. Exercise, a pack-centered lifestyle, and training will do wonders. My Malamute peed on things before he learned his role in the pack. Took a couple of days once we brought him home. He was an outside dog that we rescued. He had no semblance of an idea on how to be an indoor dog. If he can be trained not to pee on the furniture, so can your Akita.  |
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No, I don't know who has had sex on that used sofa.
I see you're one of those people that take your own mattress with you to sleep in hotels. Bed bugs would be the only thing I was scared of these days. Storing the sofa outside during the summer in un-air conditioned storage in Georgia would probably kill them. Storing it outside in unheated storage in the winter in many states would kill them; but probably not Georgia (unless you had a solid week of sub-freezing temps). |
I just bought a used sofa 3 weeks ago. 
I moved to Baton Rouge for a 6 month consulting gig. I drove down here on 1/17, rented an apt on 1/18, bought enough used furniture (new mattress  ) to furnish it and started work on 1/19.
Now this isn't fancy furniture. I bought it from Cort who furnish apts for corporate extended stay places. the furniture looks brand new (it could have been used to stage a sampe apt to show potential renters.) Anyway for about $1500 i've furnished an entire 850sq ft 1bedroom apt. They told me that all their fabric furniture (chairs/couches) are steamed to kill bugs. |
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Only if i knew the previous owners; i had a used one back on my old apartment from a friend of mine (family man and my Kenpo instructor); clean, well maintained, except for the main beam which was missing, which made the sofa sag in the middle a bit; but comfortable as hell, specially when you sleep in it.
Curbside pickups? OH HELL HAW! |
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NO. And if my dog pissed on my sofa, it would never do that again. And yes, I do have a dog that lives in the house, is well behaved, and goes outside to piss. She comes and gets me when she needs to go out, and stays inside all day waiting for me to get home without pissing or tearing up stuff. |
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I donated a good condition, circa mid 1980's leather Ikea sofa to The Salvation Army last year. Did my taxes yesterday and it upped my refund by $11. Yippey!  Actually, I am pretty happy that it got a second lease on life, and hopefully does not end up in a dump in the near future. |
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My second year I was in college I had a dorm room all to myself. I had the bed, desk, fridge...left quite a bit of room. I looked for a futon for awhile but never wanted to spend the money. February came and I was playing in a outdoor hockey tournament when it was like -30*F. Yikes...cold. They gave us beer tickets and I gladly consumed. Got back to the dorm a little drunk. Out near the dumpster was a couch...a decent couch clearly from the 70's or early 80's. Sign on it said "Free, high miles but runs well" I sat on it...not back. Layed down on it...not bad. I called up my friend and asked him to come over...we hoisted that couch up, banged every wall in the building, and finally set it in place in my dorm room. I cleaned it with Frebreeze and sat down. Not too bad. Had it the rest of the year. Yes...I would own a used couch...and not only would I own and use a used couch...but I gladly procure them from right next to the dumpster on a drunken whim.
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Depends on who gives it to you...
If it came from my in-law's, heck yes. They keep a cleaner house that my own wifey does. Anyone else? I'd have to know them REALLY well, and then maybe. We were doing surveillance in a lower-middle income neighborhood in Tulsa last fall. I swear it seemed like there was a junked mattress in front of every 4th or 5th house from the bedbug infestation. And this was not a "bad" neighborhood either, just lower blue collar working joe's and Section 8's. I wondered how many had caught infestations from "free" furniture because I wouldn't think that many houses would be filthy. Poor doesn't mean unclean. |
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So....would you own a used sofa? Yup I do. I got it for $50 at good will and it's far more comfortable than 98% of all the new sofa's that I looked at. seriously why the fuck would you spend $500+ on a new fucking love seat? That's just fucking asinine. God forbid if you look at a fucking 3 seat or a sectional. Then you actually sit your ass down in it and it feels like you just had a rock shoved up your ass. I'd rather rip the back seat out of an old Lincoln or mercury and sit on that. At least my ass could tolerate it. If new furniture prices were more reasonable I would never buy a used one. But at the prices they ask it's cheaper to buy used and have it cleaned or get a cover. |
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These days? No. Why? Look at what Aimless posted. I know a guy who got a used recliner last summer. He still has stragglers from the bed bug colony that took over his house. I was going to say yes, and I have twice in the past. This is a good point to rethink though |