Comments on: Of Footage and Foosball

By: FMF

FMF — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:35:54 +0000

I LOVE foosball!

You and I would make a great team — I can score at will (or at least I used to be able to — a bit rusty since college.) ;-)

By: thestevie

thestevie — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:11:41 +0000

forget foosball and get an air hockey table!

By: kosmo @ The Casual Observer

kosmo @ The Casual Observer — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:54:50 +0000

Foosball table + removable wooden top = dining room table.

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:41:11 +0000

I bought a used foosball table off craigslist for real cheap. It is smaller than a normal table but is fun to play. Actually have perfect spot in apt for it. My roommate never wants to play though, so tough to find someone.

By: Trevor @ Financial Nut

Trevor @ Financial Nut — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:40:40 +0000

Interesting thought. To be completely honest, I had never even thought of what my furniture, etc… might cost me in terms of “monthly rent.”

Interesting. You gave me something to think about.
Should say excellent post! Can’t wait to seeing your next one!

By: Trevor @ Financial Nut

Trevor @ Financial Nut — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:58:57 +0000

Interesting thought. To be completely honest, I had never even thought of what my furniture, etc… might cost me in terms of “monthly rent.”

Interesting. You gave me something to think about.

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:45:12 +0000

Heh, sounds like a fun worksite accoutrement. I don’t know that I’ve ever considered the physical size and storage before I bought something. Although, most of my purchases are physically small, so it hasn’t led to any problems (yet…)

By: Tom T

Tom T — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:12:35 +0000

It is funny you picked today for this topic. As the $90,000 Hall of Fame Classic started today it the Riviera Casino Hotel in Las Vegas.

By: Lazy Man

Lazy Man — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:11:31 +0000

Drew Carey had an outdoor pool table. You’ll hear no laughter from me. :-)

By: Enrique S

Enrique S — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:58:37 +0000

We have a foosball table in our basement, and it gets a lot of use from my kids (good practice for when they get to college). We considered storage space when buying an outdoor pool table (don’t laugh), and opted for a smaller model that would fit in my shed for the winter.

By: Cos

Cos — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:44:23 +0000

not weird – this comes into play for items such as a sewing machine or if you are master of your own garage with an array of tools. tools are expensive and most of the people that have them around my area don’t park in the garage. i have a garage and plenty of higher end tools, but the rule on buying stuff like that is that the garage is where i park my vehicles, anything i get has to be able to work within that context.

not considering space when buying something likely equates to a person having a lot of …. “noise” …. in their life. crap, it adds up quickly.

By: plonkee

plonkee — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:10:31 +0000

I’ve certainly consider the amount of room things take up when I work out whether I can afford to have it. I’ve got a reasonable amount of furniture sized things, but very little is so important that I wouldn’t get rid of it when downsizing. I did consider wall space for art when I was looking to buy a place though.

By: kosmo @ The Casual Observer

kosmo @ The Casual Observer — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:45:38 +0000

Kristy – you would have to pay an additional security deposit for a pool table? What’s the logic? Balls flying off the table and damaging the drywall? Damage to the floor because of the weight of the table?

This is a serious question – I’ve never heard of an additional deposit because of a pool table (then again, I don’t know many people who own pool tables). Maybe it’s typical for pool tables.

By: Kristy @ Master Your Card

Kristy @ Master Your Card — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:38:10 +0000

I don’t think that’s weird at all, LM. I consider the big purchases like that all the time. I want a pool table and since I live like a bachelor in my apartment, I have very little furniture to speak of. So, I could realistically fit a pool table in the “dining area” of any apartment – although, a bigger one does give more room with the sticks, a smaller one makes it somewhat cramped. At any rate, upon investigating this, it would cost me additional on the security deposit and a monthly fee. I’m already paying a monthly fee just to have pets, so for me, I’m going to hold off on the pool table. I’ll leave that purchase for when I buy a house.

By: Lazy Man

Lazy Man — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:57:35 +0000

Brian, I can only score with my defense… and it usually is an unintended goal.

Kosmo, good idea raising the bed. I’d probably get excited and bump my head on the bed though. :-)

By: kosmo @ The Casual Observer

kosmo @ The Casual Observer — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:07:39 +0000

Yeah, you can definitely get a lot more square footage in Iowa. We have 1800 square feet (1200 upper level, 600 finished lower level) in a somewhat typical house for the area. I can’t imagine living in a significantly smaller place. It can be hard enough finding storage space in this house – especially with all the baby/toddler stuff we have accumulated in the last 18 months.

Of course, I grew up on a farm, where storage is even less of a problem.

Maybe the coastal peeps are just a lot more creative with storage.

Lazy – couldn’t you just raise your bed a few feet off the floor and slide the foosball table under it for storage? :)

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:30:16 +0000

What type of foosball table is it? A good one (i.e. not made in the US and not available at Wal-Mart) or the other kind?

Are you permitted to score with the fives? Hopefully not… that’s amateur hour.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:07:46 +0000

That is freeking awesome! I’m going to set up a Fooseball fund at my company, I’ll even lead invest! We will bring a bit of the valley to Cleveland!