100-Year-Old Grandmother Sits On Her Couch For The “First” Time After Finally Removing The Plastic!

If you are “of a certain age,” you might remember the plastic couch and chair covers that were everywhere. One lady in our neighborhood had all of her furniture covered and plastic runners throughout the house. If you visited, you better not step off that runner and touch the carpet! TikTok user Queen TrayBay is celebrating the removal of her grandmother’s plastic couch covers.

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TrayBay’s grandma is 100 years old and has never sat on her sofa without the plastic couch covers. We don’t know the age of the sofa. Gold velour furniture was popular in the 1970s, and we can make an educated guess. Grandma’s reaction was less than impressed, but she did manage a slight smile. She seemed to feel uneasy without the plastic couch cover.

There are times when plastic couch covers can be a convenient option. The owners of this muddy golden retriever would have appreciated them. There are other times when they were not fun to deal with. Wearing shorts in the summer meant leaving skin behind because very few people had air conditioning back then.

Surprisingly, you can still purchase fitted plastic couch covers. It is hard to say whether they sell well. The telltale squeak and pfffffttttt of air pressing through the zipper is something that most of us did not cherish and don’t miss.

Queen TrayBay runs TrayBay Productions in the San Francisco Bay area. She posts travelogs and short productions celebrating the arts and entertainment industry. Every year, she makes sure her grandma’s Christmas card photo with her dog, Sophie, is perfect.

She may have been removed from the will after removing the plastic couch covers, but we hope not.

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