Sofa Saga, episode 1

So, yesterday Sherry and I spent the entire day sofa shopping, made not one but two trips to Findlay, and ended up using the age-old method of rock-paper-scissors to make our decision on which sofa to buy. So, here it is, our new sofa, the Ashley Furniture DuraPella Bark.

We had driven to Findlay on Sunday to see what Ashley had to offer, and we were quite impressed with the cost and style of two sofas in the DuraPella line. (DuraPella is their brand name for microfiber fabric.) However, we thought we should shop around a little bit, so we waited until Tuesday to visit Ewald Furniture here in Tiffin. While Ashley is a bit "new" in the way it runs, Ewald is a traditional furniture store in every respect. We left there thinking, "Uh. It costs more, but they have better warranties. But, then, every other sentence out of the saleswoman's mouth was "...then we see the pet hair and that voids the warranty." So, we went back home to think and remeasure.

The remeasuring made us realize that some of the sofas we had eliminated at Ashley really could maybe fit our space. So we decided to go back. Once there we quickly came to loggerheads (not with each other but with ourselves). There were two sofas that we really, really liked. Both cost exactly the same amount. What were we to do?

One of the sofas was 85"; the other was 92". At the beginning of the day, Sherry liked the 92" better, and Todd liked the 85", but we both thought that both sofas would be great. After several hours of sitting, discussing, driving back to Tiffin to remeasure and try out some new arrangements of the house, driving back to Findlay, we found that we had switched postitions. Todd now liked the 92", and Sherry the 85". In the end, we really did resort to rock-paper-scissors (two best of three competitions) and came away with the 85"-er.

We then went to Best Buy to buy a copy of Milo and Otis, stopped at the Olive Garden for dinner, and went home.