Oh, the shock, the horror - the stuff behind the sofa!

[NancysSummerSip]

As a (hopefully) lighter thread for the day:

I needed to use a heating pad last night (I'm training for another triathlon at my advanced age) and the cord was stuck in the sofa. It's a sleeper-type sofa, so DH and I had to pull off the cushions and open the sofa to get the cord unstuck from the metal frame.

Holy bilious clouds of dust bunnies, Batman! It was fugly in there! I nearly strangled my Shark vacuum cleaning that out!

So here's what I want to know:

1. What have you found in your sofa that scared you?

2. And to keep it sort of YM, what's the most amount of money you've ever found in the sofa?

[The Captain]

1.  A dust bunny that actually growled at me!  I flashed back to Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

2.  This is YM, there was no money to be found in the sofa. 

Amateur ...

[milee]

I have boys. In fact, other than me, I'm the only non-guy in the house (and the only one with a Superpower - I can see dirt.)

You DO NOT want to know what I find in and behind the sofa. You're welcome.

[busymom]

Pet hair, food AND dust bunnies!    (The only place I find money is in the washing machine.)

If you have kids, don't look under the cushions.  Yuk!

[ken a.k.a OMK]

Lego's from the gs's. Food, money ear ring.

[Tiny]

I had a 30 plus year old sofa (it was a sofa - it had cushions with springs and was upholstered in a hideous fall color flower theme.) Never found much and I would pull the cushions, vacuum, and replace the cushions twice a year.

I've got a new foam filled couch - and so far it's turned into the Cat Eating Couch. The Big Boy Cat keeps getting sucked into the space behind the seat cushions that occurs when someone sits on the couch (thus compressing the cushions...) He was TERRIFIED of the couch for the first few weeks. He's better now.

I'm assuming that I will find all sorts of stuff that has been sucked into the 'void' behind the cushions the next time I decide to vacuum it out. It's like a Giant Black Hole opens up... (well, it's like that if you are a cat).

UNDER the sofa/couch and literally BEHIND the sofa/couch is a whole other story... this is were the cat toys that don't fit under the fridge go...   Back in the day, I had a cat that liked to store his cat toys in the corner of the room (behind the couch). Cat toys include things like dead bugs (legless crickets, junebugs, the occasional mostly legless HUGE house centipede) all neatly  piled up in the corner. ICK!!

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

We moved the sofa the other day and there had to be at least 50 cat toys under it.  So Sheldon's toy box got refilled without a trip to the pet store.

However, when I moved out of my apartment in KY, I found enough cat toys to stock a pet store!  Every piece of furniture was a treasure trove for cats!  

I own spoiled brats.

[Deleted]

Um...a couple months ago we moved the sofa to get a toy that fell and there was a big fat mouse sitting there in his stash of stolen Cheerios and popcorn.  Useless cat....

[NancysSummerSip]

I also found a few cat toys in the sofa last night. How on earth they got there, I have no clue. I mean, those suckers were buried deep!

I'm glad we opened up the sofa last night, instead of doing it when guests arrived and having them see what they were (literally) getting into. Can you imagine their faces as we vacuumed up an entire feline worth of cat hair? What does one say, besides -

"So that's what happened to Fluffy."

[zibazinski]

. You need a chalk mark in the shape of a cat for the full effect.

[movingforward]

First of all you are only one year older than me so you are not allowed to say "at my advanced age." My age is not advanced

My old cat used to love to play with milk carton rings so every time I would open a new carton of milk I would throw him the plastic ring.  I never really thought too much about it.  He would play with them and every now and then I would see one around the house and toss it into the trash.  This went on for a few years and eventually I decided to move.  When the movers lifted the sofa there were probably 40-50 milk carton rings underneath.  They looked at me like I was a bat shit crazy lady who was shoving plastic rings under her sofa. 

[NancysSummerSip]

Aug 21, 2015 12:44:47 GMT -5 movingforward said:

First of all you are only one year older than me so you are not allowed to say "at my advanced age." My age is not advanced

My old cat used to love to play with milk carton rings so every time I would open a new carton of milk I would throw him the plastic ring.  I never really thought too much about it.  He would play with them and every now and then I would see one around the house and toss it into the trash.  This went on for a few years and eventually I decided to move.  When the movers lifted the sofa there were probably 40-50 milk carton rings underneath.  They looked at me like I was a bat shit crazy lady who was shoving plastic rings under her sofa. 

Hey, on my creaky, muscle-sore days, I feel like an advanced age. This training thing is getting old. I mean, you know it's bad when your first aid and pain med items outnumber your sexy lingerie items in the closet.

My kitty loves those milk carton rings. I keep finding them under every rug in the house. I have no idea how she lifts the rugs and hides them under there. And Gawd only knows how many are under the fridge and stove. We will be getting a new stove at some point, so we will find out.

[movingforward]

Aug 21, 2015 14:01:41 GMT -5 NancysSummerSip said:

Aug 21, 2015 12:44:47 GMT -5 movingforward said:

First of all you are only one year older than me so you are not allowed to say "at my advanced age." My age is not advanced

My old cat used to love to play with milk carton rings so every time I would open a new carton of milk I would throw him the plastic ring.  I never really thought too much about it.  He would play with them and every now and then I would see one around the house and toss it into the trash.  This went on for a few years and eventually I decided to move.  When the movers lifted the sofa there were probably 40-50 milk carton rings underneath.  They looked at me like I was a bat shit crazy lady who was shoving plastic rings under her sofa. 

Hey, on my creaky, muscle-sore days, I feel like an advanced age. This training thing is getting old. I mean, you know it's bad when your first aid and pain med items outnumber your sexy lingerie items in the closet.

My kitty loves those milk carton rings. I keep finding them under every rug in the house. I have no idea how she lifts the rugs and hides them under there. And Gawd only knows how many are under the fridge and stove. We will be getting a new stove at some point, so we will find out.

My new cat doesn't care about them at all.  Every time I throw one at him he looks at me like "what the hell is this?"  Spoiled ass cat likes REAL toys.  The nerve!

[Wisconsin Beth]

I have kids not cats.  But the amount of crumbs I find under and around the couch is staggering.  I'm not brave enough to open up the sleeper section of the couch.  We've got a 3 piece, L shaped sectional one. 

[wyouser]

A 1903 German silver 3 mark coin. This was after relocating nearly everything in the living room trying to find it. It had managed to get itself stuck in the hide-a-bed portion of the sofa.  A dropped penny nickel or dime wouldn't get the same reaction from me.  Beyond that, fuzzbunnies and other assorted disgusting tidbits are drug under sofas and deposited there by those pesky, unseen, gremlins that inhabit our houses.

[msventoux]

I have a Roomba that fits under the couch and mostly keeps the dust bunnies under control and the animal toys pushed out from under there.  Prior to that I knew it was time to rearrange furniture and clean everything when no more dust bunnies would fit under the couch and they were encroaching in the living space.    In addition to the dust bunnies there would be massive amounts of tennis balls, dog bones and cat toys. 

[Tiny]

Here's a cute video about why cats put their toys under the Stove... makes one wonder what goes on under one's couch...



The Real Reason Cats Toss Their Toys Under The Stove

Cat CATastrophes

[mamasita99]

I tend to find the usual lost piece of candy, dust bunnies, and sticky pennies under the couch. My Mom, on the other hand... when I was younger I remember my mom doing some cleaning in the living room one day. When she pulled the couch away from the wall she discovered a dirty movie (on VHS, I remember!). Mom started yelling at my older brother, who of course denied ever seeing the video. While my mom was ranting on and on at my brother my dad tries to quietly stop her. My dad finally had to flat out tell her that the movie wasn't my brothers, but it was his

[NoNamePerson]

It got so crowded behind my couch that I finally had to move out!!

[Jaguar]

Aug 21, 2015 17:38:30 GMT -5 Tiny said:

Here's a cute video about why cats put their toys under the Stove... makes one wonder what goes on under one's couch...



The Real Reason Cats Toss Their Toys Under The Stove

Cat CATastrophes

Now that was funny!