Tale of a First-Time Home Buyer: The Man-Cave Gets Comfy

So if you’ve been reading along, you know that the next big purchase on the list for the new house is a soft, cushy sectional couch for the man cave. It’s imperative to be as comfortable as humanly possible when I’m watching my new TV. Since buying the TV was more of my thing, I let the wife take the reigns on the couch. She knows what she wants, she knows what our price range is, and she loves to shop. It’s a match made in heaven.

The tough part of the couch-buying process was that we had the perfect couch picked out from heaven (Read: Costco) that we didn’t end up getting. We found it on the website about five months ago – perfect size, color, style, price… and we both agreed that it was the sofa with the mostest. There were a few positive reviews for the couch, two of them dating back to 2008. I was sure that we could wait and buy the couch when we were ready… after all it had been available for two years! Well, when the time came to buy it, we sign on, and – shocker – it’s gone. Great.

So now we’re back to square one. We do some internet shopping and go to two stores on Saturday… we know what we’re looking for, we just can’t find the right one. I got fed up with this boring couch shopping. “All yours,” I said. The next day, my wife goes out with her mom and they find two great couches in the same store. I came up to the store to have a look. “Good work, Picard,” I said. “We’ll take it.” And now we’re the proud owners of a brand new couch!

I can just see it now… me lounging on the couch in the man cave, watching baseball and drinking my third ice cold beer… It’s raining outside, which instills a guilt-free feeling of relaxation. I look at the clock and it’s only 1:00 pm… I have a lot of baseball to watch. I change the channel during the commercial and find Braveheart! What’s a guy to do? Continue watching baseball or stick with one of the greatest man movies of all time?

I’ll leave the rest up to your imagination… and mine.