Couch Potato
By marcyaz
@Marcyaz (35316)
United States
March 7, 2016 1:24pm CST
Are you a true couch potato or just at certain times.
Do you have your remote right next to you along with your TV guide so you don't have to get up.
How about your trash can, pillows, blankets.
If you do this all the time then you are a true couch potato.
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28 responses
@rosekiss (30414)
• Eugene, Oregon
7 Mar 16
I am more an easy chair potato, as I sit in my comfy easy chair, with my laptop right beside me, and the remote control too. I do get up at times though and walk around to get my exercise, and with dogs, I have one that loves to play, and i need to get up and throw her toy, so she can fetch it.
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@rosekiss (30414)
• Eugene, Oregon
7 Mar 16
@Marilynda1225 Since I have had my easy chair, I just don't use the couches anymore, as they aren't as comfortable, that is for sure, espeically, when I fall asleep reaslly easy when I put my head back.
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@Marilynda1225 (82798)
• United States
7 Mar 16
I guess I qualify more as a chair potato too 
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
7 Mar 16
Do they still make the TV Guide? Haven't used one of those in many years. I am not a couch potato, I sit in a recliner!
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
8 Mar 16
@AbbyGreenhill
I think they still make a TV guide. We will forgive you for a recliner but you are still a couch potato and we will take you it a good thing.
@Marilynda1225 (82798)
• United States
7 Mar 16
TV guide is a blast from the past
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Instead of TV I'm now addicted to the WEB ..... which is worse I wonder.
Oh, TV still serves a purpose, it's my sleeping pill 
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
7 Mar 16
nope, I am always getting up because i forgot something
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
7 Mar 16
@Jessicalynnt
Well if you stay seated for a while then we can count you in on the group who are couch potatoes. 
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
8 Mar 16
@Jessicalynnt
I knew it so you are officially a couch potato for sure.
Doesn't that make you feel good?
Doesn't that make you feel good?
@rina110383 (24492)
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7 Mar 16
I'm not a couch potato and I don't watch TV. But, I work lying on my bed with my laptop on my tummy, trash can near me, and pillows under my head. If I'm lying on a couch, I think I can also be considered a couch potato=)
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
7 Mar 16
@rina110383
You work lying on your bed with your laptop on your tummy. What type of work are you doing than? Hey you say you might be considered a couch potato seems to be a lot of us. 
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@rina110383 (24492)
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7 Mar 16
@Marcyaz I work from home, doing online legal tasks for clients abroad. Sometimes, I sit when I need to write something. I'm used to typing while lying on my bed than when sitting. It's weird.
@Halfpintohoney (23)
• Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
8 Mar 16
Of course nobody will truly admit to being a couch potato, lol We would all like to believe we are more active than we really are. Everyone has a special show or time of day that turns them into one!! Great Article
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
8 Mar 16
@Halfpintohoney
Ah another couch potato in our midst, great. Hey who wants to be active when it is more fun to be a couch potato, right? Thanks glad you enjoyed this.
Thanks glad you enjoyed this.1 person likes this
@allknowing (136481)
• India
8 Mar 16
I am all for comforts and shortcuts. (lol)
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
8 Mar 16
@allknowing
Good for you so we can count you as one of us couch potatoes.
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@allknowing (136481)
• India
8 Mar 16
@Marcyaz But let me make it clear just because I am for comforts and shortcuts does not make me a couch potato and that is final
@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
8 Mar 16
@Drosophila
needing food will make you get up and move about.
needing food will make you get up and move about.1 person likes this
@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
20 Apr 16
I wouldn't say I was a true couch potato. I mean, I'm not exactly active the way I'd like to be. I do dance a bit around the house and sometimes go for a walk around the block but I also do spend the majority of time on here while the TV is on.
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@Daljinder (23236)
• Bangalore, India
14 Feb 17
@VivaLaDani13 I have been a true couch potato during the winters.
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@slund2041 (3314)
• United States
7 Mar 16
I have never used a TV Guide. I have local channels and Roku box with Netflix, Hulu Plus and YouTube. I stay busy with everyday life, and do not have time to be a couch potato. I sure wished I could though...wow..I do need a break. I only watch TV or read at night. Well, I also read why waiting in doctors offices.
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@Letranknight2015 (51964)
• Philippines
7 Mar 16
I use to do it most of the time, but i find it quite too lazy. Because I did it again last night and made me slept late.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
7 Mar 16
@Letranknight2015
Okay we will put you in our group of couch potatoes only because you did it again last night but it did not make you sleep late you did that on your own. 
@Tampa_girl7 (50258)
• United States
7 Mar 16
I have in the past been a couch potato, but no more
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
8 Mar 16
@tampa_girl7
Oh no we have lost you to something else no longer a couch potato, can we convince you to come back and be a couch potato?
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@Marilynda1225 (82798)
• United States
7 Mar 16
Guess I qualify as a couch potato. Once I sit down to watch tv I hate to get up again so everything I need is within reach
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@Daljinder (23236)
• Bangalore, India
8 Mar 16
When I feel lazy I curl up on a couch with all the things I need in reaching distance. But I get fed up being lazy too. LOL I am weird like that. So, when I work on my computer, I prefer to sit on a stool and a chair. That way I wouldn't be getting any support in the back.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
15 Feb 17
@Daljinder I do that too! I get everything I could possibly need or want so I don't have to get up again. 
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