Recliner Slipcover Is A Great Present Idea

What do you buy for someone who has everything?  It’s always difficult knowing what present to buy for my dad for his birthday or at Christmas.  When I ask him what he’d like, he tells me I don’t need to bother getting him anything.  He likes useful, practical gifts and hates the idea of getting presents just for the sake of it.  But even so, I like to give him something and would feel rather mean if I didn’t.

I’ve been racking my brains trying to come up with an imaginative gift idea - something that he will actually get a lot of use out of.  And then it came to me when I was round there for dinner the other night - a recliner slipcover!  Dad has his favorite reclining chair, which he spends so much time in that no one else in the family gets a look in.  None of us would dare sit in “his seat”.  Actually, we wouldn’t really want to - it’s so worn and tatty it doesn’t look terribly inviting to anyone but my dad.

It must be comfortable, otherwise he wouldn’t spend so much time in it.  He loves his recliner and if he’s got any spare time on his hands you can be sure to find him relaxing in front of the TV or with the Sunday papers.  It’s precisely because he spends so much time in his recliner that it looks so worn and faded.  My mum has offered to buy him a new chair, but he won’t hear of it - nothing could possibly be as comfortable as the one he’s got!

Anyway, I know recliner slipcovers are much cheaper to buy than a new chair, so a new recliner cover seems like the perfect solution.  Dad gets to keep his beloved chair, Mum doesn’t have to spend her hard-earned cash on a new piece of furniture, the recliner’s going to look as good as new and I’ll get Brownie points for choosing a practical birthday present!