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Appreciation post: the $3 plastic footstool from a Decatur garage sale that fixed 6 years of desk misery
For years I sat with my chair cranked all the way up so my elbows hit the desk right, and my feet just dangled in the air. My knees ached every night and I kept blaming my chair, even priced out a $300 replacement last winter. Then a buddy sat at my setup in Decatur and asked why the desk was 2 inches higher than everything I owned, and it hit me I had the whole setup backwards. I dropped the legs to 27 inches, threw a $3 footstool from a garage sale under my feet, and the aches quit in about a week. Anyone else running a desk height that matches their feet instead of their chair?
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troyh5523d ago
Same thing happened to me. Spent months thinking my chair was garbage and my back hurt because of it. Turns out my desk was just too tall for my short legs. Dropped it down a couple inches and stuck a old wooden crate under my feet, done. The crate was free and the pain was gone in a week. Weird how one dumb little fix beats a $300 chair every time. Chair people never tell you the desk is the problem.
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