Bean bags - love or loathe?

[AnyDream]

Do you love bean bags or loathe them?

If you love them, what are your best bean bag tips?

[Queen]

Umm love but they a PITA!
When filling fill in bath best tip ever! Keeps all those balls in one spot!!
For whatever reason, ours always end up being used a cat toilet So then get turffed, good luck xo

[The[cookie]Doctor]

I want one!!!!!

[Phteven]

Loathe. I hate the noise, they're never quite comfy and they always seem to smell funny after a while.

[Lisa]

LOVE! But filled with foam bits rather than beans. Much easier to fill, much easier to empty and no noise issues

[Party-of-five]

mum bought the kids some for christmas they have been banished to the toy room! hate the sound of them

[HotI]

Only with a liner so you can wash the cover. (but they still smell manky after awhile)

[nickle730]

Loathe. They make me feel claustrophobic... it's like they're trying to swallow me whole. And the same goes for waterbeds.

[Cassius2]

LOVE THEM!

we used to have a beanbag couch! yes, a COUCH! it was so frikkin' awesome...ahhh falling asleep in that baby was bliss. but then we got a 'grown up' couch and i gifted it...dream of it still today...

my best tip is to keep the kitty kats of them. ours really liked to paw at it before lying down for a nap. so got a few nicks in it (not enough to cause leakage issues, but enough to annoy me lol)

Edit: mine was a vinyl number so never had the smell issues that others are mentioning...thankfully!

[Amy_jellybean]

I Loathe them as well....can stand the noise and I find them just plain uncomfortable.

[Nai]

I love sitting in them but I hate the way they look and they take up too much space. Mine are stored in the playroom and I still hate the way they take up too much space and loll about everywhere - they are a bit like teenagers

Tip - maybe get the more structured ones so that they retain shape a bit better and don't look like huge lumps just sitting there.

[sconeonamission]

Dont like them! They're too freaking noisy. You can only get comfy once, it's never the same again.

I have a foot stool with those little beans in it and omg, while it's good to put my feet up, I don't dare move!

[widdly]

I want to buy one cause i only have a little 2 seater couch, I reckon a beanbag will be a good extra chair. I like laying on them and watching telly too, the noise doesnt bother me

[anney]

don't like the ordinary shaped ones but DD has the lips shape and it is really comfy. but gawd they are a nightmare to fill.