Our new chair

Today has been quite a difficult day, but it ended on a high note. Our quest to find a chair was quite exhausting, although it didn't take as long as I had imagined. For the past couple of years, we have been using regular wooden chairs to work on the computer, but using the wrong chair is taking its toll on us. My husband is the one who uses the computer the most for work, and he couldn't stand the pain anymore, so, with a lot of effort, we decided to buy an office chair.

A few years ago, I bought a “gamer” chair that was quite expensive at the time. I spent almost $300 on it, and it was really good at first, but it broke quite quickly. It didn't last long considering how expensive it was. It was also a bit uncomfortable because the leather material made you feel hot after using it for a while. So buying the same chair again was not an option. We decided to go for something simpler, more economical, and that we already knew because we had worked with this type of chair before.

We looked in three stores and saw quite a variety and different prices, although the first stores we saw had chairs that felt a little cheap... I'm surprised at how expensive it is to buy a simple chair. The cheapest ones, which were all ugly, cost $60.

And the ones that were like this cost more than $100. This one, for example, cost $115, but I wasn't convinced by the horrible transparency of the back; it looked like poor-quality material.


In the end, we saw this one that was a little more expensive but looked better designed, with slightly more resistant material—in short, much better—but it cost $130. However, we decided to make the effort and sacrifice to buy it, for our own well-being.

It's crazy how guilty I feel when I buy something so expensive, as if it were wrong to buy things for the house, as if it were a “luxury” to have a decent chair for the computer.

In the end, we paid a taxi that charged $8 to take us home, and we arrived and assembled it. It wasn't as difficult as I had imagined, but we did have a problem with the lever to raise and lower it. After a while, my husband managed to get it to work, and everything is fine for now. To be honest, I don't expect it to last very long (I HOPE IT DOES), but for years now, products such as furniture, appliances, and whatever else don't come with the same quality as before. Now you buy things and wait to see when they break. So I don't expect too much from the chair. If it lasts, great, but if it breaks quickly, there's nothing we can do about it. That's just how things are.



