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The Sweet and the Low: My Ergonomic Desk Chair Dream

Posted by Steph Auteri

 

[$1,255, hive]

Ever since posting about the Aeron desk chair,  I’ve been feeling a bit…obsessed.

After all, I've been thinking of treating myself to a new desk chair for quite some time now, both to celebrate my successful leap into the full-time freelance life, and to deal with my attendant back pain.

So what's wrong with the chair I've been using?

Well, I originally rescued from my former employer’s freight elevator, where it awaited imminent scrap-heap destiny. After bringing it back to my cubicle and cradling it in my arms, I got permission from my office manager to take it home for my own personal use.

And so I lugged it home from NY to NJ — across Midtown, onto the bus, off the bus, into my car, and up the steps to my condo  — piece by piece. And it was better than the kitchen chair I had been using.

But recently, it's been starting to fall apart.

When I mentioned the Aeron to my husband, he understandably balked at the $750-$1,200 price tag.

Which makes the $300 chair I just bought the other night seem like the savings of a lifetime!

 

 

 

 

 [$299.99, Office Depot]

Yes. Bask in the awesomeness.

It was a bitch getting up the stairs, but it cradles my lower back so sweetly, and provides me with endless (physical) support as I toil away here for hours upon hours.

Hubby's jealous. 


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Posted Mar 14 2008, 01:30 PM
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augustmag said:

I just got the Herman Miller Celle chair. It's about $400 and owe so beautiful. I started by looking at the Office Depot chair but they always felt cheap.

March 28, 2008 11:38 AM

About Steph Auteri

Steph Auteri is a freelance writer and proofreader who has been published in Publishers Weekly, New York Press, Playgirl, and other bastions of fine writing. She maintains a professional site -- stephiswrite.com -- and also blogs about freelancing over at Freelancedom.com. You can keep up on her day-to-day by visiting her Twitter page, https://twitter.com/stephauteri.

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Alex Zalben is a writer living in New York City. He's written for McSweeney's, Modern Humorist and PulpSecret.com. As one-fifth of the sketch comedy group Elephant Larry, he has been written up in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and pretty much every other major publication. Their blog was named one of PC Magazine's Top Blogs for 2007, and they recently won an ECNY Award for their viral short, "Minesweeper: The Movie." Alex did not know love until he bought his first Mac.

Steph Auteri is a freelance writer and proofreader who has been published in Publishers Weekly, New York Press, Playgirl, and other bastions of fine writing. She maintains a professional site https://www.stephiswrite.com, and also blogs about freelancing over at Freelancedom. You can keep up on her day-to-day by visiting her Twitter page.

Diana Vilibert is a freelance writer, among other things. Born in Lithuania, she now lives in New Jersey, where she doesn't have to walk to work ten miles in the snow, barefoot, uphill both ways. Diana cannot afford most of the products she writes about because she buys too many pairs of heels to make up for her shoeless childhood. She's written for MarieClaire.com, Janemag.com, and CosmoGIRL!.

Shaun Seneviratne is a dude just like anyone else. Just your average guy that raps Bone Thugs-n-Harmony to strangers on the subway at 4 a.m., doesn't chew his food because he believes it's a waste of time, and sleeps next to a scale replica of the Ghostbusters headquarters. He can rest easy knowing Egon, Peter, Ray, and Winston have his back. He currently lives in northern New Jersey, plays bass in Rapid Cities, and recently started a tumblr.

Laureen Mahler is a writer and editor who lives in California, where the sun never sets and everyone rollerskates to work. She coedits Beeswax Magazine and spends the remainder of her time as a freelance writer and letterpresser. She truly believes that someday she will master the ultimate multitask of blogging while letterpressing, though that might mean that she'll need a second pair of arms.

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