Yup my wife and I are hunting for a coffee table for a while now.
I have this great coffee table from West Elm that my fiance and I will eat on from the sofa
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Is eating dinner in front of the TV with a lap tray an "old man thing to do"? Do you do it?
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I don't have a tray. For most foods I'll just eat with my plate in my lap if I'm in front of the TV (which I almost always am, unless I have company over). If its something more complex I'll pull the coffee table closer and use that while sitting forward. If its too involved I'll eat at the dining room table, though I probably only do so a few times a year except when company is coming.
What's "yuck" about it, 20-30 minutes of the day sat around the table talking as a family with no distractions is great.
I have a dining table in my living room. 9/10 I eat there. Other than that I'll eat in the kitchen standing up at the counter. Same for the kids when I have them. Though I don't mind the TV being on. Only time I have that off/no phones etc is Sunday dinner.
I hate eating dinner on the sofa and don't do it. Dunno why lol
I hate eating dinner on the sofa and don't do it. Dunno why lol
My Dad does, but he's 80 and on his own, so he can eat his dinner how ever he likes as far as I'm concerned. I'll use a tray and eat while watching tv with him when I stay at his for the weekend as that's the way he likes to do it. Bear in mind that we'll spend the whole weekend talking anyway, so it's not like dinner time is family talking time for us.
I have small space. Bedroom, utility/storage room, laundry room, bathroom, and one contiguous wide hallway-like space serving as the hub which is probably like <250ft square.
I can only realistically choose 3 to fit in that space:
-Living Room
-Office
-Kitchen
-Dining Room
Dining Room says buh-bye. It's just not a good use of space for me. I eat wherever.
Interestingly I don't have a tray. Never really considered it honestly.
I can only realistically choose 3 to fit in that space:
-Living Room
-Office
-Kitchen
-Dining Room
Dining Room says buh-bye. It's just not a good use of space for me. I eat wherever.
Interestingly I don't have a tray. Never really considered it honestly.
Normally I'd agree. During this lockdown we've had way more time to talk and discuss w/ no real distractions, lol.
I was confused in that I thought the non-old man alternative would be to eat dinner sitting at a proper table with napkins and such while not watching anything, which seemed like a far more old man thing to do. The difference between tray or no tray is anecdotal and up to taste, but I definitely prefer tray because it lets me lay back more confortably and can hold condiments, a glass, bottles, etc. saving me trips to the kitchen.
Our house rules are the opposite; dinner time is Netflix time. Granted that's easy to enforce when you're living with your SO (plus cats) and we both have the same tastes in TV.
Our house rules are the opposite; dinner time is Netflix time. Granted that's easy to enforce when you're living with your SO (plus cats) and we both have the same tastes in TV.
With 3 kids all differing ages and interests it would be impossible to find something to please everyone, so it stays off.
Also due to the hours I've been pulling in lockdown it's nice to shut the office door and have some time away from any screens for awhile.
Interesting notion considering breakfast in bed is such a desirable thing to attain. ;)
In any case, breakfast in bed is usually brunch in bed. So you may as well try lunch at that point. And if you've already done lunch, it's not like that's any different than dinner anyway.
I forgot about breakfast-in-bed, lol but it's mostly about dirtying your sheets and attracting insects, also sleeping on crumbs/food.
Nah, I don't see it as an old man thing. I just set the food on the side of me on the couch when I'm not eating it at the time, and then hold the plate with one hand resting the plate against my shoulder when I'm eating it while browsing my iPad.
I eat at my desk. I don't have a dining room table and I don't eat when I'm playing games in front of the TV.
Im eating a slice of chocolate pie on my bed infront of my tv using my ps4 to watch youtube as we speak.Where is your god now OP?
Just eat wherever you want. You don't need to officially eat your dinner at a kitchen table as though your life is restricted to weird, draconian rules of when and where you can do certain things in your living space. Sometimes I'll eat my dinner at my computer desk because why the hell not?
My wife and I eat in front of the TV all the time, sometimes with a tray, sometimes without.
We eat at the table when we have larger or more elaborate meals that needs more space or we just want to chat over food.
Nothing savage about it, we're both in our 30's (she's in her early 30's and me in the late)
We eat at the table when we have larger or more elaborate meals that needs more space or we just want to chat over food.
Nothing savage about it, we're both in our 30's (she's in her early 30's and me in the late)
Eating dinner in front of the TV is an old man thing to do, nowadays it's phone at the dinner table
For my case I work from 3pm-Midnight so I often miss dinner with the family. So I don't usually have the TV on during dinner, but it's not out of the question. When I'm not there i know they watch shows. But certain nights we will, like pizza nd movie night. But we'll sit at the table and turn the TV so we can see it better. Then migrate over to the couch after eating.
We used to have a coffee table and we would sit on the floor and watch. Don't own a tray.
We used to have a coffee table and we would sit on the floor and watch. Don't own a tray.
