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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a rule these pillows are never comfortable, overly expensive, and you can’t make forts out of them.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Forts per pillow is a very important and often neglected stat

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's the fort that counts.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I was up at an Airbnb in Boston years ago and I still very much remember one entire third of the bed I was given being covered in different throw pillows. It was bad enough to actually be funny, and more intrusive irl than the photo I had to take would have you believe. Where the photo cuts off is the edge of the mattress.

I had to move them every night in order to go to sleep, and put them back every morning when I made the bed. I counted. There were sixteen of them. Everyone else's beds were the same way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

A good time to buy cushion manufacturing stocks!

(that's a lot of cushions!)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why did you put them back??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you just make the bed with no pillows

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You take the pillows that you actually use and put them on. The rest of them go in the cupboard, or hell, just on the floor.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't see the point in cushions, the sofa's got a backrest for a reason and they're always way too hard to. Same goes for butt cushions on dining chairs, 10/10 times I take them off.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I was in group, some ladies used the pillows because the back was a bit "too" far back otherwise if they did go all the way back then their feet wouldn't touch the ground.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Makes sense. I have long legs so I need to remove the pillows or they're in my way.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is my mom. So many damn pillows on the couch that you can't sit on it.

It's not a damn pillow display!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not a damn pillow display!

Sounds like it is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

She clearly thinks it is

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least you're allowed to try and sit on the sofa.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Only on sunday, when there's special visitors over. The rest of the time we sit on plastic chairs in the room next to the kitchen.

That's how some of my relatives do it. Even when we were over we were sitting in the plastic chairs. I don't get why they would live like this.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My hatred of throw pillows is so extreme that it borders on psychotic.

“They don’t serve any purpose besides getting in your way! What if you want to sit on the couch, but there’s already someone else on it? You can’t just put the throw pillow in their lap. You can’t toss it on the floor, either. That’s rude. I HATE THEM SO MUCH.” 🔪 🪶🪶🪶

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm with you. Fuck you and your decorative pillows and towels!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Neither of you have heard of Decorative Soap it seems

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have. Sometimes, if I’m forced to attend an event at the house of someone I don’t like, I’ll wash my hands with it out of spite.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I applaud your spite motivation, Sir

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought they are called "throw pillows" because you're suppose to throw them at your family and friends when they annoy you and you are too lazy to get off the couch.

Am I not doing it right?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Beautiful

But in Chinese, these are call "hug pillows".

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I clicked the thumbnail fully expecting a third row where you could no longer see the couch behind cushions. 😞

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You can emulate this yourself by zooming into a portion of the second photo which renders you unable to see the couch, if you like.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

couches are but another victim to the interior decorator’s aversion to uncluttered flat surfaces

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You guys are crazy. I don't really do decorative pillows but I will not abide a sofa in my house that isn't covered with soft comfy things to burrow under

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

my couch is barren and made of rock, any comfort must come from within

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

True stoic right here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's either amazing for your back or crippling there is no inbetween lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Couch tumors.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Two are enough but a lot people buy stuff like compulsive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Underrated comment.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Then there's me sitting here with one lonely white pillow on my bed cause I lost the other one.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you lose a pillow? It's not a pen or contact lens - it's a pretty bulky thing that generally stays in one area.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It doesn't stay in one area when you move houses

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

My sofa isn't so bad but I have 14 pillows on my bed. It's out of control.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Omg! When did my wife join Lemmy?!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Me but with squishmallows

Unfortunately I only have one currently

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wife used to carpet the vinyl kitchen floor with rugs. robovac would arrange them in a circle and get stuck in the middle. I rolled them up and put them on a shelf in the garage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or.. You just get rug anchors oooorrrrr pick them up before the vacuum goes off? Is it some kinda flex to put away decorations your wife liked or something I'm a little confused.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tbf carpet in the kitchen is pretty gross. Grease and shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just get machine washable rugs and toss them in every couple of days or so. I wouldn't want full carpet but rugs are nice in places like in front of the fridge. A little soft spot for jars to land if they slip or get dropped 🤷‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have this like, puffy silicone(?) thingy, meant for the same thing but is nonporous and much less gross.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Haha, perfect.

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