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How to Dismantle an Atomic Couch

April 22nd, 2007 at 03:58 pm

(tongue in cheek!)

1 - Keep the first couch you bought as a married couple long enough to REALLY get your money's worth. (Ok, 22 years may be the extreme boundary of 'long enough'...)

2 - Haul the sad thing out to your garage to allow some time to think through your options of disposal, and oh yeah...become a secret low-rent mouse housing complex. (There are few options, but this step only takes a year...)

3 - Upon last week's discovery of the rampant use of said mouse housing, an order is decreed stating emphatically that the couch MUST be removed from the premises. Teeny, tiny fire lights under husband. (I am fanning frantically from the sidelines, wishing my fan was bigger, as the couch has come into being fully ATOMIC...)

4 - In order to SAVE MONEY, a decision is made to dismantle the atomic couch. (What happened to just calling the garbage hauler??!)

5 - With a mat knife, cut shred by shred, what's left of the cover and padding into small pieces. Watch out for the flinging dried up, dead mice and the belching dust of 23 years. Bag up the pieces and throw away. (Don't cough up a lung...)

6 - Move on to the power tool portion of this project! Husband is now really getting into this project. (This is a great time to question the sanity of what husband is doing, pointing out that emergency room visits are quite costly!) The revving up of the power tool makes hearing extremely difficult. The Sawzall carves away at the wood and cardboard(!) frame, which is carried away to the backyard campfire ring. The dozen metal springs head to the recycling center.

7 - Whew! No more atomic couch, all fingers intact, no bloody gashes, no money out. Slightly amazed at the dismantling feat, and that such a flimsy couch lasted so darn long!

8 - Do NOT attempt this at home, unless the seduction of saving money, plus the use of power tools, really grabs hold of you. Then you may proceed at your own risk, hopefully with someone nearby who will question the SANITY of it all!!

Posted in Saving little by little | 4 Comments »

4 Responses to “How to Dismantle an Atomic Couch”

  1. DeniseNTexas Says:
    April 22nd, 2007 at 04:01 pm 1177257705
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    Ahhh, more humor! Thanks! By the way, we had a couch like that sit in our yard on a burn pile for over a year! Recently, the men folk finally dismantled and burned the thing....

  2. Joan.of.the.Arch Says:
    April 22nd, 2007 at 04:15 pm 1177258504
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    Funny! Smile

  3. baselle Says:
    April 22nd, 2007 at 10:09 pm 1177279759
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    Wow. I want pictures!

  4. jodi Says:
    April 23rd, 2007 at 03:24 am 1177298671
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    Too funny! We had an ugly old couch of my brother's stored in our garage for the longest time (because he was going to want it back...someday), but when it too became a mouse house, we were finally able to trash it (although we went the simpler route of sticking it out on the curb).

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