Buying Futons
Posted by Nathaniel.
As a visiprof, I’m probably only going to be here in Walla Walla for one year. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to get nice furniture for a crap apartment that I’m only in 3.5 days a week. On the other hand, my experiment of sleeping on a thermarest mattress proved that I needed something more.
Mattresses for normal beds are hundreds of dollars and, since I don’t want to carry this stuff all back at the end of the year, aren’t that easy to sell off. A futon, on the other hand, is a bed. It’s a sofa. It’s anything you want to imagine it to be. Of course, at furniture stores, they’re also multiple hundreds of dollars (plus money for delivery).
What’s the solution? Well, what store specializes in cheap furniture packed into very small boxes? Ikea!
That brings me to one of the coolest furniture assembly stories that I’ve ever had. The vacuum-packed futon. Idea first packs the mattress in a vacuum bag, sucks the air out, and then rolls it up. To unpack, you take off the outer plastic and you end up with a flat hard thing. Remove the second layer and there’s a sucking sound and the futon poofs up.
Much comfier than the thermarest too.