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I'd love to hear PG chime in about the chairs. He's been negative on them in an article or two. I think I agree with Joel here. I'm a frugal bootstrapper - I al
by garply 16y ago
I'd love to hear PG chime in about the chairs. He's been negative on them in an article or two. I think I agree with Joel here. I'm a frugal bootstrapper - I always turn off the heat before I leave my apartment. But cheap chairs can be bad for your back in the long-run. Long-term back problems are a pretty bad trade-off for a thousand bucks. And from looking at the market, it seems like a bit of an either/or scenario: you either get something super cheap, which is bad for your back, you get something mid-range, which falls apart quickly (what Joel was talking about), or you go with something expensive, which lasts for a long time. Either you go all out, or you get a bad solution. I think the pricey option is a pretty sane purchase here.
- jseliger 16y agoOne other observation: if you don't have the money to buy new, buy used. There's a place called Anderson's Office Liquidators in Tucson that sells Aerons for $500. Aerons last a really long time -- which can be useful in the resale market. I think you have to be "a frugal bootstrapper," but there's a key difference between "frugal" and "stingy" or "foolish." Good chairs are an obvious place where that difference plays out.
- flipper 16y agoTwo years ago my employer threw out the 12-month old decent chairs my IT department bought for ourselves, and replaced them with spectacularly uncomfortable new cheap ones. So I bought a 6-year old Aeron on eBay for my own use at work and have been very happy with it. Apart from a couple of small scratches on the feet it is still like new today. As an investment in my own comfort at work it has already paid for itself.