The Hungry Love Seat

We said a sad good-bye to our love seat last week. Well, maybe not so sad - it did take up a pretty big percentage of our living space (yes, our apartment is that small.) and I finally talked myself into letting it go. Now that it is gone, I am not missing it one bit. Our apartment feels twice as big, and I love that I don't have to move the computer chair every time I want to go from the "family room" to the "dining room".

A couple days before we sold the couch, I was getting it all cleaned up in preparation for taking this picture to post a for-sale sign. As I put the cover on one last time, I reached into the back of the couch to reattached the cushions when I felt a palm sized hard plastic object. At first I thought it was one of the boys many cars, but when I pulled it out, to my great astonishment, it was our remote control we lost 3 1/2 years ago. The crazy part is we must have searched around in that couch that very same way half a dozen times when the remote first went missing, and never found it. And it reminded me, about six months ago, Sam pulled a wallet from the couch. Now to give you a little background on where this couch came from: Sam helped a woman from our ward move about 5 years ago (when we first moved to San Diego). She was getting rid of her couch and love seat, and gave them to us (couch covers and all) free - which was perfect because at the time we had camping chairs in our front room. So fast forward 5 years, we were again looking for some lost object (I can't even remember what it was this time...) and Sam pulls a wallet from that couch. At first I assumed it was one of the many play wallets the boys have. But upon closer inspection, it belonged to a 1995 graduate of Clairemont High School. The wallet was complete with student ID, blockbuster card, and a girl's phone number.

Now that the couch is gone, I can't help but wonder what else it ate while it was at our house, only to be discovered years later by its future owners. I'm just glad we retrieved our remote only the day before we passed it on....