Discussion Thread: How Many Pillows?

Is your home overrun with useless pillows? I say “useless,” but really, every pillow has a function: to be soft. It’s a pretty basic job description. The only way a pillow could fail at that is if you accidentally bought a brick. I meant useless in the sense that you’re not allowed to use them, or that you don’t allow other people to. I’m not sure who makes the rules in your house. Every marriage can only have one pillow cop.

Lola and I have around ten decorative pillows for our bed, even though we only ever use the two regular ones buried at the bottom of the pile. We used to make that stack every day, but as the years wore on, we started to only put out the two we actually use. The other ones now remain hidden in the closet unless we have guests who we want to impress, which we never do. Life is a lot easier when you don’t let outsiders go up the stairs. Over the last year, our useless decorative pillows have finally gained a function. I’ve used them to hold various body parts in pla…