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August 24th, 2007 under Furniture, Real Estate


I have a hard time believing that this helps sell homes.

For those of you too lazy to click (why do I enable you?), a company is selling furniture shaped cardboard you can use to stage your home with after you’ve moved your own furniture out.

Personally, I think the market for this is people who bought a house with more rooms than they could possibly use who feel strange having empty rooms in their home. Just throw some cardboard furniture in there.


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    [ # 2599 ] Comment from Gabe [August 24, 2007, 10:33 am]

    These would make great furnishings for someone who lives in a cardboard box.

    [ # 2600 ] Comment from Mike N. [August 24, 2007, 4:41 pm]

    A friend of mine from high school moved out to LA and has since moved back to south Texas. While he was living in Los Angeles he had a job making fake people out of cardboard and balloons to serve as “extras.” These “people” are a lot cheaper than hiring or gathering extras to fill up the background of a scene.

    Maybe these balloon people could sit at the cardboard couches to help complete the sale.

    [ # 2601 ] Comment from Ed Kohler [August 24, 2007, 4:44 pm]

    I remember seeing a lot of fake people in the audience during American Gladiators. Maybe your friend from HS helped create cardboard mullets for that show?

    [ # 2603 ] Comment from Ranty [August 24, 2007, 9:34 pm]

    Ew.

    It’s still cheaper to buy real furniture from goodwill, people.

    And you can actually sit on it.

    [ # 4712 ] Comment from Bonnie Erickson [February 22, 2008, 11:41 pm]

    Funny. I almost sat on one of those fake beds. It was a cot like contraption not meant to hold any more weight than the elegant bed set it boasted. I thought it looked fake but wasn’t sure so checked before I put any weight on the “bed”. I bet the whole thing collapsed and folded like a lawn chair.

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