by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In which I consider what is the ultimate purchase for the home, family, and home business: the table.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Consider the humble flat horizontal surface. Narrow the consideration to the kitchen table with four chairs. A quick search shows plenty of choices from $100 on up. Let’s settle for $150.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A family eats two to three meals on this table six to seven days a week for 40 or 50 years. A quick napkin estimation shows about 30,000 uses. That’s about half a penny per use. Pretty darn inexpensive for a valuable experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Friends drink coffee, wine, or something at the table another three or four times a week. Children do their home work three days a week, nine months a year for twelve (or more) years each. A work-from-home professional sits at the table when all these other uses are not in progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Laughter, sorrow, love, angst, staring into another’s eyes, grasping hands in desperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All of this over a table. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The per use cost is now less than a tenth of a penny each. Is there a better value anywhere in the home or in a person’s life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1983, my wife and I married. Her parents bought us a table and chairs. It sure seemed expensive to me at the time. Silly me. It was one of the best values in my life and it continues to be so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips In which I consider what is the ultimate purchase for the home, family, and home business: the table. Consider the humble flat horizontal surface. Narrow the consideration to the kitchen table with four chairs. A quick search shows plenty of choices from $100 on up. Let’s settle for $150. A family eats […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,116,293,286,121,56,48],"tags":[120,228,294,287,122,177,170],"class_list":["post-3883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adults","category-authentic","category-concepts","category-conversation","category-economics","category-family","category-general-systems-thinking","tag-adults","tag-authentic","tag-concepts","tag-conversation","tag-economics","tag-family","tag-general-systems-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3884,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions\/3884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}