Maintenance Monday: Your Couch and Spare Change

Sorry for the late post­ing today — I’d meant to post my Main­te­nance Mon­day arti­cle ear­lier in the day but I got tied with with my lasagna and iced apple cake.

If you’re new to my blog, Main­te­nance Mon­day is a reg­u­lar “col­umn” of sorts in which I share a main­te­nance tip.  I am of the “qual­ity, not quan­tity” phi­los­o­phy and, to me, a key ele­ment of tru­ely fru­gal liv­ing is buy­ing high qual­ity prod­ucts and then doing every­thing nec­es­sary to pro­tect that invest­ment and pro­long­ing the life of my possessions.

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The next time you go dig­ging into your couch cush­ions look­ing for loose change, take your vac­uum cleaner with you.  Start by remov­ing any throw pil­lows and then all the seat cush­ions.  Once you’ve found all the hid­den trea­sures, and stored that loose change in your change jar, give the couch a thor­ough vac­u­um­ing — under the cush­ions, the cush­ions them­selves, the back cush­ions, the arms, and any throw pil­lows you have.

Keep­ing your couch vac­u­umed and clean can sig­nif­i­cantly pro­long the life of your sofa.  All that grit that sifts down under the pil­lows can prove awfully destruc­tive to your fab­ric over time.

I give my couch a thor­ough vac­u­um­ing about once a month.

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