Man Cave - Or in My House. Family Room.

Even though we now own a new couch, we still have my husband's circa 1997 super single sex couch sitting in our family room.

Don't you find the pattern, um, mesmerizing?

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I'm challenging my male readers to out themselves and their mancaves or "man-I should have thrown that sweatshirt out years ago and I told my wife I did but I LIED" as part of the PBN Blog Blast this weekend. Female readers? Out your spousal units! The rules of engagement can be found at Parent Bloggers Network and prizes are courtesy of Bill Me Later (have you tried them, btw? I just did and I love it).

Comments

[Danielle, Celebrity Baby Blog]

That couch looks like sweaters my stepfather wears. I bet they're from the same era.

I'm sorry.

[always home and uncool]

My Love doesn't even let me have my manhood, let alone a man cave.

[Karen (Submommy)]

I JUST now thought of the perfect "man cave" post. Too little, too late.

Dang.

[K]

I just didn't have the heart to make Husband throw out all of his ugly furniture at once, so hung on to a very similar sofa for years... in fact, it is still in our basement, where the hide-a-bed is folded out for tweenage sleepovers. When I finally worked up the courage to ask where he had purchased such a beauty, he said "Wards." Which explains the whole thing.

[Vicki]

Haha, I have almost the exact same couch! I had it slipcovered in fabric with letters on it and it's now in the kids playroom! I cringe whenever I take off the slipcover to wash --- the thing really is hideous.

[Suebob]

That couch is not that bad. I have seen worse. I have OWNED worse.

[Kelly]

Wow. Thats, um.... quite the couch. We have a wagonwheel coffee table a la "When Harry Met Sally." Or no, actually, it's a ship's helm coffee table. Same thing. Totally huge and can't be stored. It's proudly sitting in our formal living room right inside the front door. Ugh.

[muskrat]

Appreciate the shout out! My post will publish Sunday at 3pm eastern.

[susieshomemade]

My husband owned this house before we met. So, I had to phase his ugly stuff out slowly. After 7 years, I am still working on it. The worst was this rug he had hanging on the wall with a deer on it. Yuck! "But, it's from Germany"..."Well, then it's German ugly":-)

[Cassie]

We have a black leather couch and a hand chair. If you know what that is you know how horrible it is. I finally stuck the hand chair in the storage space.

[LSM]

18 years ago when we got married, I made my husband promise to replace the horribly ugly 70s-era couch he inherited from his mother. We got a new couch for the family room, but he insisted on keeping the old one "because it's a sleeper sofa!"

We're now on couch number three in the family room, but the ugliness that is the first couch lives on in our gameroom. And, to my knowledge, no one has slept on that pull-out bed in over 15 years.

[LiteralDan]

The pattern's not that bad, but I'll admit it does look a lot like a hotel couch.

[Mandi]

We used to have a terrible couch that collected dog hair like mad. One day while my hubby was away for work I decided that it would be fun to take my 2 y/o to the furniture store just to look. Said 2 y/o picked his favorite sofa minutes after walking into the store and it was delivered to our house days later. Leather does not collect dog hairs, but we are still paying for this 7 months later...

[Barbara]

We've just been getting rid of furniture and my husband will NOT throw out this eighties wood end table we had painted black, but is SO scratched up that it is now black and brown. It now sits in our garage mocking my inability to drag it to the curb because of my 7 months pregnant status. ARG!

[Kate]

That pattern makes me car sick!

[PAPA]

My fiance thought it would be a great idea to wash our couch covers. She had an even greater idea to use Tide. We now have a Zebra couch. Our couch is skunked.