Ways to Use Your Bean Bag Chair

I have started a list of ways I think you can use a bean bag chair. There must be other ways. I'd love to hear more ideas or more specific things that I haven't thought of. Add your ideas here and let's see how long we can make the list. I'm shooting for 100!

1. A Chair (obviously!)
2. A Lounger
3. A Couch
4. Watching TV
5. Playing video games
6. Having a chat with your girlfriends/mates
7. For throwing at your brother (or sister)
8. Bouncing
9. Sliding
10. Tobogganing
11. For Studying
12. For Sleeping
13. For Reading
14. For doing puzzles
15. For staff meeting – get them comfortable so they really get thinking
16. For children at daycares
17. Seating in recreation rooms
18. Rehabilitation exercises
19. RDI Autism Therapy
20. Pet Bed
21. Pet Ramp
22. Home Decorating
23. A Foot Rest
24. A base for a table
25. Extra seating when guests come over
26. Seating in your sailboat
27. Chairs at the cabin
28. Patio seating
29. Camping chair
30. Pool float (the bean-less bean bags)
31. In your kid’s room
32. For your teenager and their friends to hang out
33. For Stargazing
34. Advertising – get your logo on the side of a bean bag chair
35. Building a snowball wall (made of bean bag chairs)
36. For discussion groups at conferences
37. For working on your laptop
38. For gaming conventions
39. As a bed
40. As a pillow
41. Brighten up a dull room
42. For entertaining – either lounging or playing a game
43. Seating in a dorm room
44. Seating in a small apartment
45. Watching fireworks
46. Children’s Naps
47. Relaxing
48. Meditate
49. Pedicures
50. As a maternity pillow
51. To support a pregnant tummy during Pilates or Yoga
52. Exercise with your bean bag chair
53. Save money on furniture because bean bag chairs are inexpensive
54. Children’s toys
55. Developing imagination in children

Make Your Own Bean Bag Filler

I get a lot of questions from people about refilling their bean bag chair. You can buy filler from lots of sites on the Internet and it will cost you close to the cost of buying a new bean bag chair. You can buy recycled or virgin polystyrene - I recommend recycled because it is better for the environment. The newer Fuf chairs are filled with foam so that is also an option.

I think the most inventive and creative thing to do is to create your own filling. I have read some discussions where they suggest using actual beans in their bean bag chair. Makes some sense but make sure you have a waterproof liner because you don't want your bean bag chair to sprout. Even though beans are a cheap alternative they aren't overly comfy. I like the idea of recycling what you have in your home already.

If you storage room is anything like mine, you have empty boxes full of polystyrene packing materials. You likely have some old camping foamies hanging around in the shed. Spend some time crushing the polystyrene - put it in a bag and stomp all over it. Good stress reducer and some fun, all at the same time. Shred up the foam either with your hands or scissors. Combine the two and you would have pretty comfy fill for your bean bag chair.

If your storage room is nothing like mine and you have none of these materials at home you can find them inexpensively in your town. Look for a foam shop and buy their scrap pieces, they often sell bags of scrap pieces for little cost. Phone around to appliance shops and ask when they are uncrating their next shipment, show up and you can help yourself to their polystyrene packing.

The fastest and easiest way to refill your bean bag chair is to buy it pre-made on the Internet. The funnest and most satisfying way is to make the filling yourself. You will have to experiment a little bit but that is part of the fun.

Making a List of Uses for Bean Bag Chairs

So I am really interested in creating a list of how people use their bean bag chairs. I can think of a few obvious ways - watching TV, reading a book, playing video games - but I would love to hear from you to find out what special use you have for your bean bag chair. I've done some surfing and have seen some crazy stuff. Let me know, together we can create a giant list.

New to this whole blogging stuff!

Well I can't believe how simple it was to create this blog. Just like that and WOW I have a blog. Hmm, now I have to write something interesting. Ha, that's funny.

Since I'm here to talk about bean bag chairs and how great I think they are, I'll start with my story and go from there. I'm pretty new in the Internet marketing game, been around for 6 months or so. I was researching products and planning out a website when I came across a supplier of bean bag chairs. It took me back to when I was 8 or 9 years old when I got my first bean bag chair. My sister and I loved those chairs. They went all over the house with us and lasted until they popped and spewed polystyrene balls everywhere. No patching could keep those suckers contained!

When I came across this supplier I immediately decided to market bean bag chairs. Why not, they are so fun and they are the comfiest things around. When my niece found out I had a website with bean bag chairs, she decided she needed to be famous and have her picture taken with her super large bean bag chair. Well, being the good aunt I am I am posting her picture here so she can be the mascot of my blog!

We used to have lots of fun when she was a little baby throwing her into the pillowy softness. She would laugh and laugh. Do you have a bean bag chair? I'd love to hear how you use it. Be the first to add a comment to my blog - I feel like a kid with a pile of presents on Christmas Day.