Abandoned LDS Couches

[BlueK]

The reason for that is inspired. If the couches were new and comfortable members would be fighting for the couch instead of a bench seat in the chapel.

probably more likely it's a concern about bloggers complaining about too much tithing money going to buy nice couches.

[wally]

Maybe it's from a celestial room

I haven't sat on a church couch in a long, long time. Not only are they uncomfortable, they also smell really bad. I wonder how often they get cleaned. My guess is, never.


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I am not sure, but it seems like a progmo thing to be too good for the foyer couch.

[Pelado]

I for one have never seen a couch replaced in any LDS meetinghouse. The couches in my current building have been there for over 10 years and they didn't look good 10 years ago. The couches in my parents chapel (where I grew up) are still the same ones they had 20 years ago, floral print and all.


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The chapel I attended growing up got new couches once.

[Topper]

probably more likely it's a concern about bloggers complaining about too much tithing money going to buy nice couches.

Do you remember the days when there was a building fund and the bishop encouraged you to make a commitment to pay toward the building fund?

[BlueK]

Do you remember the days when there was a building fund and the bishop encouraged you to make a commitment to pay toward the building fund?

Yes, or the budget

[Topper]

Yes, or the budget

I remember the discussions they had with my parents, but wasn't old enough to be asked to contribute. In foreign countries, members were also asked to commit to raising a certain amount, divided by member, before a new building would be built.

[PaloAltoCougar]

I remember the discussions they had with my parents, but wasn't old enough to be asked to contribute. In foreign countries, members were also asked to commit to raising a certain amount, divided by member, before a new building would be built.

Huh? Members were hit up for budget contributions well into the '80s. As a counselor in the early '80s, I remember going over the membership list and coming up with a suggested budget number for every active member. Too bad you weren't on the list as I would have been sure to impose a burdensome levy.

And this discussion revived the memory of a stupid song our ward performed at a dinner around that time, called "The Busy Bishop." Its chorus included, "He keeps us striving, to pay our tithing, the welfare, budget and the building fund." Being encouraged to donate in all four categories wasn't unusual. Today we're a bunch of whiners.

[Topper]

Huh? Members were hit up for budget contributions well into the '80s. As a counselor in the early '80s, I remember going over the membership list and coming up with a suggested budget number for every active member. Too bad you weren't on the list as I would have been sure to impose a burdensome levy.

And this discussion revived the memory of a stupid song our ward performed at a dinner around that time, called "The Busy Bishop." Its chorus included, "He keeps us striving, to pay our tithing, the welfare, budget and the building fund." Being encouraged to donate in all four categories wasn't unusual. Today we're a bunch of whiners.

In the eighties, I was a destitute college student. One dollar would have been a burdensome levy.

[Art Vandelay]

Huh? Members were hit up for budget contributions well into the '80s. As a counselor in the early '80s, I remember going over the membership list and coming up with a suggested budget number for every active member. Too bad you weren't on the list as I would have been sure to impose a burdensome levy.

And this discussion revived the memory of a stupid song our ward performed at a dinner around that time, called "The Busy Bishop." Its chorus included, "He keeps us striving, to pay our tithing, the welfare, budget and the building fund." Being encouraged to donate in all four categories wasn't unusual. Today we're a bunch of whiners.

88, I believe. The reason I remember was I was serving in the Arlington VA ward which had two types of members - dirt poor apartment dwellers (mostly Georgetown, or GW med/law students) and the uber wealthy. There was lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth trying to figure out how they could continue their annual steak and lobster dinner. That was also the ward that almost ended my mission, before it really began when the Carter family took us to the Arlington Country Club for lunch. (Un)fortunately our table was within perfect viewing distance of the pool - which seemed to only have 2 types of kids: young Spaulding Snails, and teenage Lacey Underall

[PaloAltoCougar]

In the late '70s I was a counselor for a student branch (before they switched back to wards) and I remember the BP telling students they should kick in $10 a semester, and working nonstudents should make a budget contribution equal to 1% of their titheable income. That wasn't Church policy, just his.

[Bo Diddley]

I'm outraged by the abandoned couches, and I have to admit that I don't know where our last ones went. We got new comfy couches two or three years ago.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

"Is the LDS Church Trying to Kill You? The Cleanliness if its Couches Says Otherwise" - A conversation with a former LDS building cleaner.

And Niku could be that disgruntled former volunteer cleaner.

[DrumNFeather]

And Niku could be that disgruntled former volunteer cleaner.

"I don't want to speculate as to how dangerous the cleaning chemicals the church FORCES you to use"

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