When my brother house-sat for me: A Gumtree ad

This is not an appropriate portfolio piece, but I think it’s an example of the ways that storytelling enriches people’s interest in a product. Gumtree is a classified ads platform that’s reasonable popular in Australia. It is perhaps my favourite channel to write for.

BLACK CLICK-CLACK FOLD-OUT COUCH/SOFA/BURDEN IN MY LIFE

So here is how I came to own this couch that I don’t even like sitting on (because to sit on it is an endorsement of a stupidity too enormous for me to comprehend):

I have just returned home from some contract work overseas and in the meantime I asked my brother to house sit for me. For some reason, in my absence — despite my very apparent aesthetic tastes and total distaste for owning an excessive amount of furniture — my brother bought this fold out couch. On my return he expected me to be grateful and delighted that there was this big old hulk of useless furniture in my front room that I never wanted or needed. Needless to say, but I’m going to say it anyway: I was not grateful and delighted.

He claims he bought it because he “needed somewhere to sit down” when he put his shoes on, despite there being a perfectly adequate chair in that front room and the fact that I have never, in my two years of living here, required/desired/expressed interest in having a whole other couch for the sole purpose of putting on my shoes. And who house sits for a person and buys them new furniture anyway?

So, here we are.

Now I have to get the goddamn thing out of here before I try to burn it.

The couch is in working order. It has a nick in the corner but it is easy to flatten and pull up again. It is perfectly fine, just not to my very specific tastes.

Cheers,
Celina