As a high school teacher, I've never really thought about having furniture in my classroom. However, when we renovated the English wing breakroom, I started thinking about how nice it would be to have a small wingback chair to sit in whenever I am evaluating presentations and for visitors to sit in when they come to my class for observations.
So the hunt was on.
For a town with a large number of thrift shops, it was impossible to find a wingback chair here. Either they were already sold and waiting on pickup to go to their new homes or they were priced way beyond my low-end teacher budget.
Finally, my best friend and I went to West Point for the Prairie Arts festival, an annual trip for us. We always stop at this mega-awesome thrift shop there, and I found this chair. It and several other pieces of vintage furniture were tucked behind some much glossier and slicker-looking new stuff, but when I saw its distinctive silhouette rising above the low backs of the faux leather couches, I made a bee-line for it.
When I turned the tag over, I had a moment of true teacher joy: $14.99. I lifted it up right there and carried it up to the checkout lest some other predatory educator (or grad student) be looking for the same kind of bargain.
It's not pretty, but man alive, it's awesome to sit down in from time to time. It has made the times when my students come up and use my document camera or present my favorite lesson moments. :)
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