As I was approaching them I could see a look of intense frustration spreading across their face as I was carrying nothing at all. They were still expecting me to be carrying around a pink bean bag. So before they could say anything to me at all I told them that I had found a pink beanbag but wouldn’t be able to get my hands on it for another few days. Initially I thought “Madame” wanted to see it which would have proved tricky.

However all the shopping had gotten the better of her and she just wanted to get home and start on the bedroom with everything else that had been spent on the credit card. So 4 days later we were all sitting at home putting the finishing touches onto “Madames” bedroom when the bell went off downstairs and a man was standing at the door holding this huge box with the word “Fatboy” written on it. “Madame” was ecstatic not least because “Fatboy” was the trendy brand name for a bean bag that you had to own.

Here friends would now be extremely envious of her new bedroom and the 1 item of furniture that was the centrepiece of the room, the pink beanbag.

She said that we should meet up again in a couple of hours after I had done a comprehensive search in the shopping centre for the elusive pink bean bag. After much wandering amongst the million and one other people who were doing the XMAS shopping he sat down to have a coffee. As his eyes wandered across the vast shopping centre he did spy a child sitting on a blue bean bag in Mamas And Papas.

So off he went when he finished his coffee to find out where he could buy this blue beanbag. Well in actual fact he wanted the pink beanbag but kind of guessed that if the shop had managed to buy a blue bean bag then they should sell pink bean bags as well. Dad thought that he would be in the good books if he could buy the bean bag and keep the 2 girls happy, he could then get back to his rugby and everything would be fine and dandy.

Upon approaching the sales assistant she informed him that they had spent ages looking for a blue beanbag to complement the shops colour scheme but couldn’t find one anywhere. It was only a bright sparks idea to hop online and try and find a place where they could get it from.

There was also tons of girlie posters on the wall with signed autographs from the celebrities as well as funky designs everywhere. So when “Madame” heard all this she approached her mother first to tell her about the wonderful pink bean bag as well as the total design of the room. “Madames” father never stood a chance as when a teenager and her Mother get together it is a serious case of being ganged up on.

A few weeks later the whole family was unceremoniously dragged through the shops in Dundrum Shopping Center to look for the infamous pink bean bag as well as the bedspreads and new bed. To be honest it was just as well that Dad had recently just got a Christmas bonus as he would have been totally out of pocket.
This was Dad’s idea of hell, being dragged through a shopping centre when he could have been watching a Heineken rugby match on his own brown bean bag at home. Since Dad was making a nuisance of himself and standing in the corner texting his rugby friends, the better half eventually had enough and dispatched him off to a shop to try and find the infamous shockingly coloured pink beanbag.

As I had pointed out to the “War Office” (that’s the wife by the way) even if I did manage to find a bean bag I wouldn’t be able to fit it in the car. The car would be full of “Madames” shopping for her bedroom so the best I could do would be to come back and pick it up at a later date provided I could fine one.

Picture this. It is a scenario playing out all over the country and it may only be a case of time before it happens in your house. So you have a bunch of kids in the family but the one who is causing the most disruption is your teenage daughter who is going through those famous growing pains. She is constantly nagging you about her bedroom.

She has had the same old room for the last five years and now just wants something completely different. Everything was fine until about 2 weeks ago when “Madame” was over in Justine’s house for a 14^th birthday party. All of her school friends were there as well and they were chatting about that one topic that all parents despair of. Boys.

Once all the girls had done a thorough character assassination of very boy in their class and discussing who was hot and who was not they decided to move on to talk about celebrities. Now teenage girls as we all know are really influenced by popstars, (like the Jonas Brothers) and tv stars (especially ones that are in their teens like Hannah Montana, Jamie Lynn Spears and Miranda Cosgrove). Everything that these celebrities do is scrutinised to the smallest detail possible and nothing is left out.

It was actually one of these discussions that started the whole temper tantrums off with regards to resdesigning the bedroom. Justine had asked all the girls at the party to come upstairs and check out her new bedroom that her parents had redesigned for her on the back of Hannah Montana’s bedroom. The centrepiece was a pink bean bag that could fit two adults on without a bother.

Bean bags have provided manufacturers with big opportunities and not all of them are good. It is a niche market but in the last couple of years we have seen poor imitations flooding in from the far east. Many people will contact us to tell us that they bought a competitors bean bag only to see it fall apart in weeks, and they spent quite a bit of money on it.

Make sure you find out where the bean bags are made and that they are stitched together in the correct manner. One place you should be careful of is those market stalls where you can pick them up for a song. You tend to get what you pay for.

Many of the top end manufacturers wont compromise on quality and for that reason their prices may seem to be a little bit higher than other bean bags that you may have stumbled across. There has been an upside to all this flooding of the market. It has provided opportunities to some companies to create bean bag sofas as well as novelty bean bag furniture which wasn’t around previously.

Some companies now make these bean bag sofa which can fit 6 people on. They are the equivalent of a large sofa you can buy in a shop and are a good deal less in price. You can expect to pay a couple of grand for a sofa suite, a bean bag sofa will set you back less. It really is a bargain in comparison.

A question I am frequently asked by people who are considering buying a bean bag is do fatboy bean bags live up to the hype that they hear about. My answer is an emphatic yes and if you don’t believe me just check out what others are saying on our testimonial page.

Loads of people have written in extolling the virtues of bean bags. Another point to bear in mind is that a really tough market to sell to is a childrens market. If your are primarily selling to kids (via their parents) kids will let you know in a flash if the product isn’t up to scratch. Parents sometimes will let things slide, but kids don’t have the same inhibitions or issues to deal with and are more brutal and honest.

It doesn’t matter at all what you want to use your bean bag for, it wont live up to expectations it will easily surpass them a million times over. When you are finished using it and if you want to create more space you can just stick it up against the wall or in a cupboard. Chances are you may not want to do anything at all with it and are happy just to leave it on the floor, which is what most people do.

If you do want your bean bag to be the center of attention in your sitting room don’t be surprised when friends are in your house and say to you “I have looked all over town for bean bags and couldnt find any furniture shop that stocked the fatboy bean bag” To which you reply, the best place to get it is on the net as you just pick choose and pay and get it shipped to your front door for free. You don’t have to worry about fitting into the boot of your car. When it arrives you just unpack it and you are good to go.

Imagine that you have slaved all day in the office, fighting with coworkers or getting more and more frustrated as you are behind on a deadline that your boss is giving you grief over. It is nearing the end of the day and all you want to do is to forget about lifes worries and sit on your black beanbag that you purchased a few weeks ago.

You just want to pop down to the local dvd shop, grab some popcorn and a fizzy drink and take out one of the latest movie releases. Then you are going to head back home and cuddle up with the management (also known as the war office) and watch the flick you chose. The black beanbag you bought is easily large enough to accommodate 2 adults.

So is there a downside to having such a comfortable piece of furniture in your home. As loathe as I am to admit it, there is. Truth be told I don’t consider this a disadvantage at all but some would. You can actually fall asleep whilst lying on the beanbag. I should know as I have done it on multiple occasions and the better half has been none too impressed.

She has been dealing with the kids all day and to have the husband crash out on a bean bag isn’t her idea of a romantic evening. On a few different occasions I have found myself asleep on my black bean bag at 3 in the morning. I have then sheepishly gone upstairs to crawl in to the bed. So the moral of the story is if you want an uncomfortable piece of furniture then don’t bother buying a bean bag.

The chances are that you consider yourself a hard working professional who would really appreciate getting a few moments to themselves but you cant quite work out in your head “What benefit a bean bag can bring you?” Well instead of listening to me ramble on about the pros and cons (there are actually no cons) of bean bags why not listen to what the researchers and professionals have to say.

Weird as it may seem, bean bags have to undergo rigorous testing and safety standard inspection before they are sold to Joe Public in the market place. What has become increasingly evident is that bean bags possess great therapeutic qualities.

If you are one of the unfortunate few that suffers from problems such as back problems and sciatica then the humble bean bag could well prove to be your knight in shining armour. What many people don’t realise about a beanbag is that the beans within conform to your shape and size, they take on a moulding effect.

Those in the medical profession would use the terminology for a bean bag as providing “ergonomical seating arrangement”. What this means to the uninitiated is that they are good for your back. So if you suffer from any kind of back pain and have had to pay multiple visits to a consultant then the price of a fatboy bean bag will pay for itself in next to no time.

If you haven’t been hiding under a rock for the last 18 months, you will have noticed that we are undergoing the biggest recession in the history of the state. People are having to work longer and harder than ever before. It is the norm to have taken some kind of a wage cut in the last 18 months, people in the public sector have been forced to take from as little as 5% to as much as 15%.

In the private sector wage bills have been savagely cut and people are struggling to make ends meet. The upshot of this is that people are having to work harder and longer than any other time in their working lives.

This has lead to days being missed at work due to stress related issues from people failing to make ends meet. Banks are knocking on peoples doors hassling them to meet repayments. What people need is time to relax and forget about the every day stresses they undergo at work. We are seeing more and more people turn to beanbags in their hours of need. This may seem like a strange way to forget about all the various issues that people are having to deal with. What people are recognising is that they need down time when they come home from work and people are turning to beanbags in their moment of need.

Its now time to sum up exactly in which parts of the house you can put fat boy bean bags

-The premier place is obviously in front of the goggle box. This means you can chillout whilst watching your favourite soaps on the telly

- Any of your kids or kids friends can play their favorite video games whilst on the bean bag. So the fatboy is serving as a video gaming chair.

- Why not pick up your favorite novel and read to your hearts content whilst on the bean bag

- Kids can mess around on bean bags as much as they like

- You could put your beanbag in the loft or in the attic. This depends on where the kids spend the majority of their play time.

- You can always place it in your dining space and use bean bags instead of furniture.

- Last but not least you could always use the bean bags as beds in your house.

When all is said and done a bean bag can be placed anywhere you want, ther is no such thing as a stupid location, it is horses for courses. All you have to do is let your imagination go and dream up the best place for a fatboy bean bag.