- I bought an incredibly large sofa that corresponds to our family of six people.
- I know that I am supposed to prioritize experiences on goods, but I like this sofa.
- It brought me closer to my children – both physically and emotionally.
On the evening of the New Year, 11 people extended through our ridiculously oversized sofa, counting until midnight. It was noisy and beautiful; It was exactly why my husband and I chose this huge furniture.
But I am sometimes in conflict of purchase because I am told on several occasions that we should give our Children’s experiences Instead of things. This advice seems instinctively to me.
My growing memories are, for the most part, not things I had. These are trips to New York to see my grandparents and hike Tall canyon With my father. They prepare for school dances with my friends. I couldn’t tell you what we wear one of us, but I can tell you exactly what everyone looked like.
I want my four children to have similar and remarkable experiences. But there were a few goods that I cherished as much as our experiences. One of them is my new sofa. Yeah. Couch.
When we needed a new sofa, we have become ridiculously big
When we replaced the sad bump that was our old sofa, we tried so much in the exhibition hall. Most of them would not be suitable for six people, as my large family.
When we finally found the right sofa for us, it was obscurely huge. It was a sectional, with a back and two long sides so that everyone could stretch their tagged legs. I was immediately worried about the size and scale of our furniture. I knew that it would discourage the whole scale of our room, but I also knew that it could sit down comfortably at the same time.
Since the sofa was so large, its price was so high. We could have spent this money to Travel. This is where I went back to the debate: what are the more important experiences or things?
But when I imagined lounging us on the sofa, I knew it was the right thing for our family. So we bought the sofa.
Now you can’t do anything in our family room, except sitting on our sofa. There is no space for something else. The sofa swallowed the whole living roomLeaving a tiny track to a single file to and out of the part. It’s perfect.
My teenagers connect with me to a whole new level – thanks to the sofa
I knew that the sofa would bring my family physically, but I did not imagine it emotional link It would create for us.
My teenagers often flop spectacularly on the sofa. They throw their bodies and extend and make pillow nests. They search under lots of blankets. They throw their legs on other people, set off on their brothers and sisters or their friends and usually take the whole room. And sometimes they will even be comfortable with me.
These teenagers bristle when I am affectionate in public. The embraces are not approved. But when we have a cinema eveningSomeone will rest slowly against me until they are stalled against my shoulder or extended on my knees. It’s like meeting a strange animal: if I do not make any sudden movements, they start to warm me up.
They will also talk to me when we all hang around on the sofa. I do not know if their defenses decrease as it goes later or if we are simply relaxed and comfortable. But when I ask them how their day was after school, I receive a groan or a sigh. It is only when we all relax at night on the sofa that I hear about the concerns of the courses, the problems of friends or what they think as college decisions loom.
If we buy things that align with our values, they can be just as important as experiences
I am always above all a person loving the experience. But really, that’s what the sofa is talking about. Our television observation experiences may not be as exciting as trips or concerts, but warm memories of evenings together are just as good. I want to be where all my children’s friends are lying around, and this sofa helped us.
We always take a vacation, although, with six of us, these are cheaper road trips instead of Big resorts.
But I will spend a lot of money for things for our house that strengthen our values every day: instruments, board games and pizza for a rowdy group of teenagers who hang out on my new sofa. I would buy everything that encourages people to be together in my house.
They may be things, but they give us great memories.
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