I finally stopped using my kitchen table as a desk after 2 years of back pain

I used to just plop my laptop on the kitchen table and call it a home office. My neck was always killing me and I could never reach the floor properly. Last month I got a $60 adjustable desk riser from a thrift store and it changed everything. Now my monitor sits at eye level and I can actually stand up and stretch between sets of client programming. My posture is way better and I don't hate sitting down to do paperwork anymore. Anyone else got a cheap fix that saved their back?

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elliot_harris2523d ago

Haha older textbooks under the monitor is such a classic move, @gibson.nathan. I did something similar back in college with a bunch of old textbooks under my laptop when I was "studying" (read: watching Netflix) in bed. Problem was my cat kept knocking the whole tower over and I'd have to rebuild it. Your stack sounds way more stable than my sad collection of a biology textbook and a copy of "The Catcher in the Rye." Do you still use the book stack or did you upgrade to something fancier?

gibson.nathan23d ago

Oh man, the kitchen table desk struggle is real. I used mine for about a year before my lower back started screaming at me every time I stood up. My cheap fix was actually a stack of old textbooks under my monitor. I looked ridiculous sitting there with my screen propped up on a physics textbook from 1998. But hey, it worked well enough that my neck stopped hurting and I could actually see the screen without hunching over like a turtle. Your thrift store find sounds way more legit though. Sometimes the dumbest solutions are the ones that actually stick around.