Apparently, the urge to live your life with style has come to this: socks for your chairs.
This may not be new, but it’s new to me. It can’t really be called “conspicuous consumption,” because you don’t carry your chairs on your arm like you might a $1,000 purse. I’ll call it “ridiculous consumption.”
I’m good with style. I’m good with design. I’m good with new ideas. I’m good with entrepreneurs – they’re our best bet for an economically better tomorrow.
I’m not so good with the perishable, fleeting and often silly nature of fashion. I’m terrible with having to buy more stuff so badly that you’d pull out a credit card for socks … for your chairs.
Socks: What You and Your Chairs Never Knew They Never Needed (Photo: Dwell.com)
I did buy a pack of pads for the bottom of some of my chairs for $5 at Bed Bath and Beyond; they prevent my chairs from scratching the floor.
I did not buy a set of four chair socks from Dwell.com for $20. At that price, socking up your dining room would cost $80-160, depending how many you seat.
If you absolutely must spend money, please consider other options, because there are people who live within a 5 mile radius of your home that need socks more than your chairs do.
Here in Colorado Springs, the Colorado Springs Independent’s IndyGive! campaign just fired back up – colorful, fun, incentivized and wonderful. Later this month, the Gazette-El Pomar Empty Stocking Fund campaign begins again; this campaign is run in several other cities, too. Both benefit a wide variety of non-profits on all kinds of missions to make life better for all of us here in the Pikes Peak region.
About what do you care? How can you improve your own life by improving others’ lives? Is there a person, organization or idea you appreciate that could use a little boost?
Most of us buy things we don’t really need, but instead simply want. That’s OK. But I’m drawing the line at chair socks.
