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To live without a dining table??

263 replies

inmyshoos · 05/12/2020 12:07

Can't fit in a dining table in our new house. We have a massive corner sofa and it barely fits in itself. Aibu to just sit there and eat? I really love a table, feels weird not having one. Have even considered weird coffee tables that convert to dining tables but they look weird as heck.

Will I desperately miss a table? Aibu to think we can live without one?

Our dining table is old and cost 50 quid second hand, our sofa was 3k.Confused

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DDIJ · 05/12/2020 12:17

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Pumkinseed · 05/12/2020 12:17

I never get people who will have a massive sofa but no dining table. Eating on the sofa? yuk. I'd rather swap the sofa for something smaller but eat in a civilised way. But that's me.

I assume you mean you don't have a kitchen table either (we eat in the kitchen, no dining table in the lounge).

SameToo · 05/12/2020 12:16

Eating dinner on the sofa is grim. Get a folding table.

FinallyFluid · 05/12/2020 12:16

@Varjakpaw

I'd sell the sofa rather than go without a table tbh.
This
Europilgrim · 05/12/2020 12:15

I'd sell the sofa rather than go without a table tbh
Me too.

Varjakpaw · 05/12/2020 12:14

I'd sell the sofa rather than go without a table tbh.

SlightDrizzle · 05/12/2020 12:13

I don’t have a dining room, so don’t have a ‘dining table’, but we all eat at the kitchen table, have people around for dinner at it, DS does his homework at it etc. No, could absolutely not do without it, and while obviously eating the occasional meal on the sofa is fine, but not as a general thing.

Buy a smaller sofa?

Ifailed · 05/12/2020 12:13

just eat take-away meals in the car and through the packaging out of the window, that's what everyone round here seems to do.

Fuzzywuzzyface · 05/12/2020 12:13

It is actually better for your digestion to eat at a table and if you have children especially pre school it teaches valuable social skills.
We wouldn't be without one.

Bagelsandbrie · 05/12/2020 12:11

We don’t have a table. We have tons of room for one but every time we’ve had one it never gets used as everyone likes to sit on the sofa and eat.

emmathedilemma · 05/12/2020 12:10

I'd hate not to have a table, there's some many things wrong about eating off your knee and if you have kids it's impossible for them to do, and you can't really invite people round for dinner. Could you not have bought a smaller sofa?

formerbabe · 05/12/2020 12:10

Do you have children? Dh and I eat most our meals inn the sofa but the dc eat their dinner every night at the table and family meals are at the table. I could live without a table if I didn't have dc. We also use it for crafts, homework etc

mildlymiffed · 05/12/2020 12:08

Would a gate leg table work? Tucked up against a wall when you're not using it?