Child Desk

What I was growing up, it was taken for granted that every kid would have a child desk. My parents had very specific rules about how we were to do our homework. Although those rules seemed absurd to me at the time, I now understand the logic of them. We had to sit at our kids desk from the moment we began our work to the moment we were gone. We were not allowed to stretch out on the bed, lie down on the floor, lay around on the couch, or even work at the kitchen table. The reason my parents did this was that they wanted to teach us discipline. When we sat at the children desk, it was time to get to work. When we got up from the desk, it meant that we were finished. That way, we were able to build up a routine. Not only did this routine make it easier for our parents to supervise us, but it also made us more responsible, efficient people.

My wife, by contrast, never had child desks when she grew up. Their house was absolute chaos. Her parents were creative, and her whole family was very intelligent, but they were not very efficient people. They were allowed to have a child desk if they wanted to, but the top priority in the family was self-expression. Most of the kids hated child desks. They liked to stretch out on the bed before they did their home, so this is the way that they got to do it. Growing up in that kind of environment allows a lot of spontaneity, but without the child desk routine, they often didn't get the work done that they needed to. They were all very creative people, but they were also under achievers.

After talking to my wife about how to raise our kids, we have decided to get each of them child office furniture. A child desk seems to be essential. Although we're not going to be as rigid as my parents, we are still trying to establish a routine. Although it might seem like a trivial thing, the child desk made a huge difference in my life. If you compare me to my wife, you'll see that my parents gave me certain advantages when growing up. Because I was used to sitting in my child's desk and doing what I had to do when I had to do it, it is now much easier for me to get work done.

Cheap Leather Sofas

When you buy furniture, you pay a lot more if you want it right away. It is true that you can find fairly cheap leather furniture at some of the commercial outlets, but it is still in the hundreds of dollars. If you're patient, however, you can keep an eye out and find used furniture that is in good shape for a much lower price.

Recently, I was looking for cheap leather sofas. It took me hours and hours to find exactly what I wanted, and I'm not sure if it was worth the effort. The only place I could find a really cheap leather sofa was at Wal-Mart, and it was not pretty. To call it a leather sofa would be a bit generous. I think it was actually some form of imitation leather, even though they insisted that it was genuine. The only other cheap leather sofas I could find cost several times as much. The big furniture distributors would sometimes have some pretty good sales, but what they called cheap leather sofas still cost at least $400 dollars.

I realized that there were only a few places to find cheap leather sofas. Goodwill was one, but after several weeks of looking, I gave it up. The cheap leather sofas that they got were usually in very poor condition. When, every once in awhile, they get something that was in good shape, it usually went very fast. Someone would buy it practically as soon as it came into the store. I didn't want to spend all of my time looking for cheap leather sofas at Goodwill, so I gave up pretty soon.

Then I discovered craigslist, and craigslist solved all of my problems. Craigslist is the ultimate place for cheap furniture. Every day, there were literally a dozen people posting ads for a cheap leather couch. Of that dozen, usually at least nine of them were duds. Still, that left anywhere from one to three cheap leather sofas that were worth considering. I let several very nice ones pass by before I made my decision. None of them, after all, were quite what I was looking for. Finally, I found a cheap leather sofa being sold by someone who was moving out the very next day. He needed to get rid of it as soon as possible, and was willing to sell it for only 80 dollars. Needless to say, I picked it right up.