Best of both worlds? We review the Sumo Omni Plus
It hit me the other day: Furniture sucks. Hard to clean, expensive, hard to move, and neverchanging. For example, let’s look at the Big Red Couch at ICHQ. It’s been around forever. I believe I paid something like $800 for it when we bought this house in 2004. After all the ICHQ flophouse parties, (like the IC LAN, Oktoberfest, St Patty’s day… you get the idea) and all the couch-crashers, it fell apart. The arms are worn through, the padding on the arms is gone, it has dog hair all over it, it’s just generally sort of beat up. Repairing it would be really expensive.
So here’s what Keebs and I did: We just chucked it into the basement. Gone. Bye bye. We made a fundamental shift in the Normal Living Room Paradigm. We decided to go “alternative lifestyle” with our media room.
We put Sumo bags in there. Filled it. Wall to wall. Sumo Omnis and a big brown Sumo Sac. It is AWESOME. Neighborhood kids come over and my kids are the toast of the town because they are the kids with the “ultimate game room” - several small children can fit on a single Sumo Sac.
While the Omnis are versatile and highly configurable - they can be bent into ottoman-style footrests or chairs or zafu-style cushions, the Sac is the “big daddy” - the big puffy monstrosity that you can sink into and get lost in.
Our room is too small for two Sacs (even the smallest ones), and the only downside of the Omni is that it doesn’t breathe well, and it tends to “deflate” a little after a while - so sitting in it for a “movie length” leads to a lot of shifting and re-puffing. Since the bag is so noisy, this can be annoying.
Wasn’t there anything in between these two? A bag with the size, support, and configurability of the Omni, and the awesome filling and microfiber covering of the Sac?
Sumo heard the call. Behold the Omni PLUS
The Omni PLUS
SHOES!
Those pics came out great!
She's gonna get it!!!!
Ever since I had the chance to sleep on one at the Lan thats all I want to buy! There a great four lounging around!
Killer review!!!
I love Sumos. Time to get one for the apartment!
Believe it or not, this is an extremely comfortable position.
Yes, that position looks very.........
..comfortable!
*RADA tries to figure out how to get the wife to agree to buy a Sumo....
..comfortable!
*RADA tries to figure out how to get the wife to agree to buy a Sumo....
Start by NOT showing her these reviews
Who is her? Is she a SUMO-babe, or and Icrontic-babe?
The model? She's an Icrontic babe.
Sold :-D I'm sure Eli will be passing out on our Omni PLUS within the week!
Jo-Jo loved the one at Brian's house. Maybe I'll have to buy one for my place.
Brian, I'm getting a message about "The link is not currently active" when I try to go buy one.
omfg I'm looking into it.
Fixed.
Prime,
Props to you and your lovely model for a great review. Someone is a lucky man...I wish I hadn't wasted money already on some traditional beanbags for our basement.
She's gonna get it!!!!
Ever since I had the chance to sleep on one at the Lan thats all I want to buy! There a great four lounging around!
Killer review!!!
Psst. I have the whole set if you want some.. you know... material...
disclaimer: this is the model's boyfriend
scotty
lucky bastard
carry on
I can see myself growing old in that chair.
That's funny, I can see myself getting younger in that chair......
I was about to say the same thing
Oops. I realize I put one of the same pictures in there twice. Fixed. Very last pic in the set was supposed to be one of the outtakes
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