The Foldable Laundry Hamper Debate in Our Group Chat
The group chat has been stuck on the same two hampers for about eight months now, which tells you everything about how this argument actually goes. It started as a…
The Double Door Wardrobe We Wish We Had Measured For
We keep coming back to the same two wardrobes when this argument starts up again, which it does, roughly every time someone moves house. There was the one in the…
The Folding Patio Table That Looked Simple and Wasn’t
The argument was about whether a folding patio table counts as “furniture” or just “a thing you own that happens to have legs.” One person settled it by dragging out…
Where We Landed on a Folding Room Divider
Half of us think the folding room divider is the single most useful thing we bought this year, hiding the work corner so it stops looking like a filing cabinet…
The Cheap Electric Recliner Chair Versus the Nicer One
Opinion on this whole category has done a full loop through the office over the years. There was a stretch, back when the first cheap one arrived, where the entire…
The Honest Story of Our Ergonomic Office Chair
Someone in this office bought a chair described as “editorial grade” and then spent three weeks adjusting the lumbar dial like it owed them money, and the rest of us…
The Executive Office Chair We’d Happily Buy Secondhand
There is a chair in the office that arrived secondhand from someone’s dad’s dental practice, allegedly, and it has outlasted three laptops and one entire operating system. Nobody remembers who…
The Extendable Dining Table Nobody Talks About Enough
Nobody on this team actually argues about the table itself. What we argue about is what kind of person needs twelve seats twice a year and keeps the leaves in…
The Ones Who Love the Extendable Kitchen Table and the Ones Who Don’t
Someone on this team admitted last week, completely unprompted, that they spent two years telling anyone who’d listen that extendable tables were a scam for people who couldn’t commit to…
The Grommet Curtains That Won Over the Skeptics
A guest at one of our gatherings, standing in front of the window with a wine glass, said “oh, I didn’t know anyone still did the metal ring thing” in…