If you’re visiting Consumerism Commentary for the first time, please take a look around and subscribe to our RSS feed.
So far, this has to be one of my favorite giveaways. Who wants yet another book about money when you could have a postmodern bean bag chair? Last week, I reviewed the Sumo Lounge Omni chair and Otto foot rest.
As the review explains, the chair is a lot nicer than I expected. Currently, I am keeping the Omni in the “bed” position for relaxing while blogging.
Sumo Lounge agreed to give away an Omni chair valued at $150 to a lucky Consumerism Commentary reader. It will be delivered by FedEx directly to the winner’s door. Not only that, but the winner can choose the color. I was sent the fiery red, and I like it, but the other colors, like tangerine, platinum, funky brown, and lime green, look great from the pictures.
Here are the instructions for the giveaway.
In order to enter the contest, you must comment on this post below, leaving your valid e-mail address. As I’ve mentioned, I will keep your e-mail address private, but I need a way to contact the winner. The comment should include something about furniture, such as an entertaining story about how you acquired furniture in your first apartment.
I really like this stuff, and this is a contest definitely worth your time. The winner will be chosen randomly, and the odds of winning depend on the number of commenters. I would hope that this attracts strong interest, as I’m quite impressed with what they’ve sent me.
The giveaway will be closed to new entries at 11:59 PM Eastern time on Tuesday, October 23. The winner will be notified by email and expected to respond within 48 hours. Subscribe to the Consumerism Commentary RSS feed to receive updates.
Update [10/17, 12:00 pm]: If you tried to place a comment on Consumerism Commentary in the last twelve hours, I did not receive your comment. You would have received an error message after submitting your message. The problem has been fixed, so please try again.
Update [10/24, 12:00 am]: The winner has been selected and notified. Thanks to everyone who visited; I hope new visitors are sticking around.
Updated October 24, 2007 and originally published October 15, 2007. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the RSS feed or receive daily emails. Follow @flexo on Twitter and visit our Facebook page for more updates.
Rank: Platinum
{ 297 comments }
← Previous Comments
When I moved out into my own apartment for the first time I had no furniture at all–only a mattress, bedside table, and stacking cubes. Dorm life works for gathering “stuff”, but that “stuff” needs a place to go.
So by complete chance, the first weekend in my new place was also the weekend my city allowed people to throw out large items without paying for them. So because of this I was able to get a recliner (that lasted a month), a dining room table, suitcase, and a desk chair all for free. “Trash to treasure” is a great way to get furniture. I’m hoping to add this Omni to my sparse quarters.
When I lived in New York City, I furnished my apartment, as well as those of a couple of friends, with curbside finds. We all bought our own mattresses and couches, but tabels, bedframes, desks, mirrors, anything easy to sanitize or repair can be had for free, some of it very stylish.
I had these really awful hunting duck throw pillows in my first apartment. My BFF and I had many giggles over those pillows…
All hand-me-downs for my first apartment, but nothing as miss-matched as my husband’s first apartment. None of that made it into our first home.
My first furniture was obtained through dumpster diving. We had this orange-floral couch that was so comfy, but so very ugly.
My 7 year-old wicked stepdaughter wrote her name, “Zoe”, in black Sharpie on my favorite comfy red sofa. :(
I would LOVE this!!! My husband is so finicky about chairs that we don’t have any in our living room. Well, we do have one chair that’s not that comfortable, but it’s designer, and he gets on my case about how I get on and off the chair. We sit on the floor. I’ve sat on the floor throughout an entire pregnancy and nursing a child. I would like something comfortable to sit on, so please randomly select me!
This looks like the best piece of furniture. How fun!
Okay – first furniture story -
When we moved into our first apartment, we had nothing. My Dad’s ex-wife (not my mom) happened to live close to our new apartment and offered us her old dining room table and chairs. She eventually gave us her washer and dryer. Needless to say, we have a great relationship with my Dad’s first wife – even going over for Thanksgiving some years. Just proves that people can bond over furnishings.
My first place was a married-housing apartment at a small midwestern college campus. Think circa 1955. Anyway, we needed to bring our own furniture to compliment the piece provided by the school – a beautiful taupe vinyl couch with an odor that could be best described as ‘wet pet’. We had no money, of course, so we went to our families and aunts and uncles and asked if there was anything they could donate that would fit into a very very very small space.
By the time we were done – they had all taken pity – and coordinated their efforts. We were furnished….. :)
I love my family!!!
My first apartment was filled with hand me downs and garage sale finds. Twelve years later my home is still filled with hand me downs and garage sale finds, only “new to me” ones. This chair looks awesome!
When I was probably in 3rd grade my parents had just moved our family into a new home where we all had our own rooms! (I had previously shared with my younger brother). I even got my own mattress, but had yet to get a headboard or bedset, so my bed was a mattress on the floor.
This was awesome. I could bounce and do flips and cartwheels and all kinds of sweet jumps and moves with my bed on the floor!
One day I decided to do a dive-leap into bed. I overshot a little bit and ended up smashing a nice foot sized hole into my brand new bedroom wall.
Needless to say I ended up with about a foot sized mark on my bum courtesy of my parents! I also learned everything about putty…(to fix the whole). Never would have happened if I had had a real bed. Or watched less teenage mutant ninja turtles
I have a piece of furniture that I’m a sort of infamous for among my friends; my ‘grey steel shelves’. Years ago I bought a couple of packages of those assemble it yourself shelves that were probably meant for the garage. I use them in my living room where they hold my TV and stereo and other related stuff like tapes and DVDs. The assemble it yourself nature means I’ve been able to rearrange the shape of these shelves over the years as needed. Move shelves up/down, make it twice as wide or deep, no problem. A screw driver and pliers and its done in a few minutes. Lots of flexibility, cheap, and a talking point for my friends when they discuss my taste in furniture.
In my first apartment, I didn’t have a sofa, but after I got married I felt the need to “set up house”, so we put the word out that we needed any spare furniture friends might be getting rid of.
What we got was a 20-year-old sofa that looked like it was covered in orange and brown burlap. The reason it was up for grabs was because it belonged to our friend’s uncle, who had recently died. He actually had died while sitting on that sofa. As soon as it was brought into our house, our cat at the time went nuts and started clawing it all over the place, even though she had never done that sort of thing before. It made me wonder if she smelled some dead-ness or something.
I am considering a getting this sumo bean bag. I would be cool if I can win one. Your reviews helped alot. Thanks.
I am a 33 year old mother of 5 and I have NEVER had new furniture!!! This would be a great start!!! It looks so comfy and I am sure I would have to fight the kids off of it!
I am still looking for funiture for my apartment. So far still looking though Room and Board and Design within Reach. This chair stikes me either for someone extra to sit around the TV or for sitting down in to reach a book.
When my roommate and I moved into our first off campus apartment we were at a loss for how little we actually owned. Much to our surprise, and not a day after moving in, there was a bright pink goodwill furniture advertisement hanging on our front door.
Looking back this doesn’t make much sense, but we drove my truck down to the store deciding then and there not to return with out some sort of couch. We found this horribly tacky 70′s couch, just perfect for a hipsters first bachelor pad.
The hilarious thing about the entire goodwill furniture sale experience was the free knickknacks that they were “giving away” with every purchase. I can proudly say that for the last few months, our living room features one 70′s retro couch, and a porcelain pig dressed in a confederate civil war uniform and proudly saluting.
His name is Officer Porkins. Beyond that, don’t ask.
I’m 19 and am moving out in the next few weeks. :) I need this.
Thanks!
I don’t have any entertaining furniture stories, but I do have a 15 month old boy who would love a bean bag. Is it drool proof?
This chair is great! I made something similar in college using an XXXXXL pair of sweat pants, stuffing them with bean bag beans and sewing the waist and ankles shut! It looked really funny when someone was sitting on or against it.
When my husband and I started dating I noticed he had very “unusual” furniture. He said most it was from his college days when they just made do with what they had.
One of the weirdest pieces was the breakfast table. It was a painted door with PVC legs. Now THAT’s fine college living! :-) We still have most of his stuff but that had to go.
Thanks!
All the furniture in my apartment has been handed down to me. My couch and lazy boy was my grandparents, then my parents, and now mine. You can imagine how old and outdated they are! But free is free!
In my first apartment I didn’t have enough money at first to buy a mattress, so I slept on a blow up with a slow leek. Every morning I’d wake up sunk in the middle of the mattress down to floor with the mattress that still had air in it surrounding me. I had a sore back for months.
I slept on the floor in a sleeping bag in my first college apartment. I could have slept on the couch but I was pretty grossed out by the smells that still lingered from before my roommate rescued it from the side of the road…
We just moved cross country into an apartment (compartment) about 1/4 the size of our old house (1100sq ft >300 sq ft). We had to ditch the couch, queen bed, chairs, DR table, and most of the kitchen items. This would be a welcome addition to our space, as there’s little in it except a goofy dog, an evil cat, and two adults with no place to sit.
We stand around in the evening eating ice cream from the container with our two spoons (the rest are in storage and the bowl is in the sink).
On the bright side we miss the stuff, but we’ve got more “space” than before…
Thankfully the first furniture I needed for my first “on my own” place came from my Dad. He pretty much gave me the furniture he hadn’t gotten rid of in the dozen or so furniture purchases he has made over the past decades. My room looked like a 1980′s Wheel of Fortune prize gallery (remember the rotating gifts that people had to choose from?). But it was furniture that worked so I was grateful!
We sold our couch and loveseat on craigslist over a month ago and have been sitting on the floor since then, while we look for new furniture. My back hurts so much! This chair looks so comfy and I think it would look great in our empty living room!
I have been married 35 years and have had the same furniture for 35 years. Boy, would I love this!!!!!
That is such a cool chair! So versatile and comfortable looking! It would be great to have – to be able to move around where ever you need it and use it in a variety of ways. With a few “yung’ens” around the house, it would be so fun to have around!
My first apartment was furnished by the landlord. He seemed to believe that a dresser and a desk were the same thing because they both had flat surfaces.
I LOVE this omni chair! WOW! I dont have a funny story about my first apartment furniture, but about the first time my cat decided to sit on my husband’s prized Italian leather chair. Too bad he hadn’t been declawed! Ok, maybe it was only funny to me?
I am the tallest one in a family of 5 at 6’1. My parents and my 2 sisters are all below 5’6. However I am the only one with a twin sized bed still. Both my sisters have queen sized beds and of course the parents are on a King sized bed. They must dislike me (jk) :( haha I have just never seen the need for a larger bed yet.
The very first time I was to ever buy furniture, my boyfriend talked me into letting him pick it out. While I was at work, he went to a Consignment Store and got a puke-green velvet couch with matching chair! WHOA, was I surprised! I wasn’t expecting that at all. Now, years later, vows have been exchanged and I am stuck with the velvet couch. I am expecting our first child and new furniture is now a must, maybe a new chair will make my hubby reconsider buying all new things.
Furniture, ah what a concept. It’s meant to provide a nice comfortable appealing place for a person to sit down. As the mother of 4 small children, I have a different outlook on just what furniture is…It is a springboard for little boys, the wall of the castle for little girls, a dumping ground for lazy adults, a napkin for goey fingers and mouths of all little people, and a soft place to throw a tantrum. As for me, the Mom, it is a soft place to bury my head when the day has gotten to rough.
Sweet chair!
As this is a personal finance blog, I just found $0.61 between the cushions of my couch. How do I record this? Unrealized funds?
This furniture is awesome, got a place in mind for it already. One of my pet peeves is inside furniture outside, for example, couches on front porches…you know what I mean…
A furniture story? How about this one. I had a matching set of a couch, loveseat, and a chair and when I moved I let my boyfriend, at the time, keep the chair. He put it in the garage and left it there. I come to retrieve it weeks later and there was a dead bird on it…ugh! So the chair got thrown out! It was disgusting!!
I love this in the fiery red!! My furniture comes from all kinds of places. One of my favorite bookcases was found on the curbside for trash. I grabbed it up, sanded it, and spray painted it. It held all my scrapbook stuff in our last house.
Hand me downs, Hand me downs, Hand me downs! This seems to be the way I get most of my furniture. So something new and nice would be awesome!
Living in SF in the late 90s in the Western Addition/North of Panhandle there was always furniture in the street. I lived in a shotgun apt. with three roommates and our community furniture was almost all street-furnished. There were two nasty couches in the living room when I moved in. Two years later we found another slightly better one on the street so we brought it up the flight of stairs to our apartment, brought one of our old ones down, went back up, came back down to get a last look at the one we’d taken outside, and it was gone.
When i bought my first home, i didn’t have any money left over for furniture. So we used the godawful college crap that i inherited from a roommate for 2.5 years.
I also refused to pay $1,000 for a bed frame, so our box-spring sits directly on the floor! but atleast i splurged on the mattress ;-0
I am such a furniture magpie. I think most of the pieces that I have are given or found….one day I may actually do the grown up thing and buy some, until then I have my hotch potch of stuff!
I remember my first couch, in fact I still have it. When I moved out of my mothers house I went to a Garage Sale and saw this brownish couch. I did not have one yet so I asked how much, only 20 bucks! I was sold on it!
That was over 5 years ago, I still have it and it has affectionately received the title of ‘The Butt Eater’, from me, my now husband and my son. It sinks so low lol but its so comfy.
In my current house, which is a great little hide-a-way guest house that I rent, the only couch and coffee table were both picked up off the street! The couch was on the lawn of a neighbor’s home to be trashed on the large item trash day (its practicallly new) and the coffee table was left for trash near a concert venue!
My husband and I moved into our first tiny, one bedroom apartment with NOTHING. We sat on the floor eating cereal. We were pretty young. We went to the local Goodwill store and purchased a used couch and chair. Other furniture items were obtained from garage sales. Now, finally, 11 years later – we have all of our OWN furniture!
Please enter me! Here’s something about my furniture: My husband and I were at a yard sale and found this great coffee table you can store stuff in for $35. We were newlyweds and couldn’t believe our luck. Then later, some of his parents’ friends told us they had an entertainment center to get rid of and asked if we wanted it (they knew ours was particle board and falling apart). We said yes and went to pick it up. Guess what? It matched the coffee table like they were made for each other! It was great. They are still in our living room and are among our favorite pieces of furniture. Our couch, by the way, is the same one that was in my husband’s college dorm and we had our first kiss on it when we were dating. Then my mom recovered it for us and it’s like new! It has sentimental value :)
This giveaway is officially closed. The winner will be contacted shortly.
← Previous Comments