Our new chair

Hoy ha sido un día bastante complicado pero termino de la mejor manera, nuestra travesía de hoy buscando una silla fue bastante agotadora aunque no tardamos tanto como imagine, desde hace un par de años estamos usando sillas de madera normales para trabajar en la computadora, pero ya nos esta pasando factura el usar la silla incorrecta, mi esposo es el que mas usa la computadora para trabajar y ya no soportaba el dolor, asi que con mucho esfuerzo decidimos comprar una silla de oficina.

Today has been quite a difficult day, but it ended on a high note. Our quest to find a chair was quite exhausting, although it didn't take as long as I had imagined. For the past couple of years, we have been using regular wooden chairs to work on the computer, but using the wrong chair is taking its toll on us. My husband is the one who uses the computer the most for work, and he couldn't stand the pain anymore, so, with a lot of effort, we decided to buy an office chair.

Hace unos años atrás compre una silla “Gamer” que me costó bastante caro en ese entonces gaste casi $300 y realmente fue buena al principio, pero se dañó bastante rápido, no duro nada para lo costoso que fue, tambien era un poco incomoda por el material de cuero hacia que sintieras calor después de un rato de usarla. Asi que comprar una silla igual no era opción, decidimos ir por algo más sencillo, económico y que ya conocemos porque hemos trabajado con este tipo de sillas antes.

A few years ago, I bought a “gamer” chair that was quite expensive at the time. I spent almost $300 on it, and it was really good at first, but it broke quite quickly. It didn't last long considering how expensive it was. It was also a bit uncomfortable because the leather material made you feel hot after using it for a while. So buying the same chair again was not an option. We decided to go for something simpler, more economical, and that we already knew because we had worked with this type of chair before.

Buscamos en tres tiendas y vimos bastante variedad y diferentes precios, aunque las primeras tiendas que vimos las sillas se sentían un poco de mala calidad… Me sorprende lo costoso que esta comprar una simple silla, la más económica que eran estas todas feas costaban $60

We looked in three stores and saw quite a variety and different prices, although the first stores we saw had chairs that felt a little cheap... I'm surprised at how expensive it is to buy a simple chair. The cheapest ones, which were all ugly, cost $60.

Y las que eran de este estilo costaban mas de 100, esta por ejemplo costaba $115 pero no me convencía esa transparencia tan horrible en el espaldar, se veía material de mala calidad.

And the ones that were like this cost more than $100. This one, for example, cost $115, but I wasn't convinced by the horrible transparency of the back; it looked like poor-quality material.

Al final vimos esta un poco mas costosa pero se veía mejor diseñada, material un poco mas resistente, en fin, mucho mejor, pero costaba $130, pero decidimos hacer el esfuerzo y sacrificio de comprarla, es por nuestro bienestar.

In the end, we saw this one that was a little more expensive but looked better designed, with slightly more resistant material—in short, much better—but it cost $130. However, we decided to make the effort and sacrifice to buy it, for our own well-being.

Es muy loco como me siento de culpable cuando compro algo tan costoso, como si fuese incorrecto comprar cosas para la casa, como si fuese un “lujo” tener una silla decente para la computadora.

It's crazy how guilty I feel when I buy something so expensive, as if it were wrong to buy things for the house, as if it were a “luxury” to have a decent chair for the computer.

Al final pagamos un taxi que cobro $8 hasta nuestra casa y llegamos armándola, no fue tan difícil como imagine pero si tuvimos un problema con la palanca de subir y bajar , después de un rato mi esposo logro hacer que funcionara y todo bien por ahora, siendo sincera no espero que dure tanto (OJALA SI DURE) pero desde hace años que los productos sea muebles, electrodomésticos lo que sea no vienen con la misma calidad de antes, ahora se compran las cosas esperando a ver cuando se dañan. Asi que no espero demasiado de la silla, si dura genial, pero si se daña rápido pues ya no hay nada que hacer asi estan las cosas.

In the end, we paid a taxi that charged $8 to take us home, and we arrived and assembled it. It wasn't as difficult as I had imagined, but we did have a problem with the lever to raise and lower it. After a while, my husband managed to get it to work, and everything is fine for now. To be honest, I don't expect it to last very long (I HOPE IT DOES), but for years now, products such as furniture, appliances, and whatever else don't come with the same quality as before. Now you buy things and wait to see when they break. So I don't expect too much from the chair. If it lasts, great, but if it breaks quickly, there's nothing we can do about it. That's just how things are.