Slip Cover battles!

Slip Covers. Love 'em or leave 'em?

Not sure if this post is informational or useless, but it stemmed from those 

too many days last week stuck in the cottage under two inches of solid ice!

 I do know that I'm rethinking slip covers for the future.

The sudden need to do something constructive on Thursday caught me unaware.

Before you could say 'TIDE with bleach alternative', I found myself stripping slip 
covers off the chairs, throwing them into the washing machine, and then, a little later, 
thinking about going Spring furniture shopping once the roads were thawed out and 
travel was safe again.

Why new furniture?
Because I now realize slip-covered furniture can turn the living room into a
 war zone once you reach a certain age.

I didn't even get around to the sofa cover, the main part has to go out to 

the laundromat - much too big for my washing machine - although I can do the 

the seat cushions here at home.

If you have slip covers you must live with someone else. Even a big dog or a 

feisty cat doesn't help in this situation.  

Preferably a strong-armed, patient person is required - and that's not me - who 

can push, shove, pull and squeeze those fat cushions back into those suddenly 

brilliantly clean, but oh so tight, covers. One can just about remove them for 

laundering, but trying to get the danged things back on again alone is impossible.

Bob is my patient person - without him I would be nothing!

I would never get the covers on, and even with him helping I was caught between 

throwing them at him, or suffocating him under them, when my patience gave out!  

We moved from the living room to the bedroom where we thought putting them on 

the bed would be easier. . . . .fighting those blasted seat cushions all the way.

A sweet little Italian lady custom-made my slip covers and did an amazing job.

They cost me a small fortune.

They're somewhat of a pain in the you-know-what. I love them and hate them.

 I would perhaps enjoy a new sofa that doesn't require a slip cover, but it's 

hard to find the right size for the room - most are gigantic and overwhelm the 

small space.  

Do you have slip covers? 

Does anyone make small sofas anymore?  Not love seats which are really too small.

Bob sustained no serious injuries on the battlefield!!!