1) I’ve always wanted to break dance. Break it down to make a dance floor!
2) My new years resolution is to get off my chair more and do things outside! Wait.. if I win the chair, that might be a little difficult.. hmmm..
3) Blogging day and night and sitting on this 4-year old leather chair from office depot has surely caused my slouching to increase over the years. This chair will improve my life a million times over. Or at least, make my back much happier.

1) I would totally build a fabulous fort - or I might donate it to one of my architect friends for model making.

2)I’ve loads of New Year Resolutions of course but the relevant one is to finish tidying and decorating my desk/studio/office area - (I still don’t have a chair!) - and then using it. I also resolve to blog more, paint more, write more, make more things.

3) (Sob Story coming up!) I have an illness called M.E. and Fibromyalgia (muscle pain) - I’m pretty sure the Stealcase Leap would improve my posture and allow me to sit at my desk for longer periods of time without pain - which in turn would allow me to write more, blog more, paint more an actually fulfill some of my wishes instead of being limited by pain. I’ve been looking for a good desk chair I could afford - this one is beyond my wildest dreams - winning it would be amazing!

1. i will make a robot like this http://winxwincollabo.livedoor.biz/archives/50758168.html
2. study English harder. so i need a chair!! also, my cat took my chair while i traveled for 5 days.
3. i do not need to fight a chair with my cat, DJ. she hates me because i use her chair. but it’s supposed to be mine!! it is 23 year old chair…no wonder it hurts my back…

1. Make a fort for my daughter and when she was done maybe some nice custom magazine boxes.
2. In 2009 I resolve to stop slouching while I work.
3. An awesome chair in my home will make working there so much more enjoyable and productive. No more manhandling pillows into a lumpy, slouchy seat on the bed.

1) Burn it to keep me warm in this freezin MN weather
2) Win a contest for once in my life
3) Prevent me from being one of those hunch-backed old men

Humm - I would assuredly turn that huge box into a kitty fort for my two 15 lb pets! I can imagine cute cut out windows and a huge furry paw batting at the shutters! I could probably fit in there too… cozy.

That would pretty much be on par with my new years resolution to be happier too.

Humm, the Steelcase leap chair will make me happier too! My current office chair is an interesting teal corduroy color and seemingly constructed for someone with half the torso length that I have. And how wickedly awesome would it be to know you are sitting on something that sooo much great design and thought has gone into?!

Happy New Year to everyone - may a smile creep into everyday!

1) Fort all the way! Nothing like a place to take cover when the office nerf gun fights break out.

2) Get my back in better shape to carry around a new baby (due in April), which a more ergonomic chair would totally help with ;)

3) If it would help alleviate my lower back pain after a 10 hour day in the office and make me more mobile for my upcoming new born it would be worth its weight in gold!

1. Build a fort with my wife. We’re the biggest kids in the house.
2. Learn a new prohibition era cocktail every month. Build my own custom web app using django.
3. It would help me accomplish my second resolution

1) I’ll use the box to hold my things of the past. And it will allow me to look at the present.
2)Turn into be my own boss.
3)The Steelcase leap will help me get more alert in manage my new own project, The style and the confort is always a good compromise and a step to be sucessfull.

01. I’m having a baby in a couple weeks — this box shall be saved & made into a radical playhouse for her & our dog.
02. My only new years resolution (aside from being a kick ass mommay, is to breastfeed my daughter.
03. I have less than perfect posture — this chair looks like it could kick that into gear — and I can breast feed while sitting oh so comfortably upon it :D

Merci! Happy new year!

1. I would use it to make a sled to go down the stairs with
2. I resolved to not break any bones in 2009
3. I really should stop using my computer from my bed/the couch, I bet that beautiful chair would help my back/laziness, plus I really could use a productivity increase.

1. give it to my niece. She’ll probably turn it into a house. I would have turned it into a fire truck or a pirate ship.
2. Sit up straight while working.
3. It would help me accomplish #2

1. i would definately play in the box with my little girl, my cats & my husband !
2. Stress less. About everything.
3. We don’t have a rocking chair at home & baby no. 2 is coming along, so this would be more than perfect for late night feedings :) & also, the time spent in front of the PC uploading the bajillion pictures of the new baby & the daughter !

1. I’m moving, so I’ll out STUFF in it.
2. My New Year’s resolution is to save up for my wedding in October.
3. I’m a freelance Sound Engineer who spends hours in a surround speaker setup, so I can now be comfortable!

1) I would take the box and make an “idea board” out of it.
2) New Years resolution is to finally get my eating notes out and make my foodie website (as a hobby).
3) The chair would be great for getting my faux office together.

1) We have a new baby on the way, so I think I’d use the box to create an incredible mobile that spans the babies nursery.

2) My New Year’s resolution, lame as it is, is to get back into a habit of regular excercise. Chair spins count, no?

3) It would allow me to stop working where I work solely because they have comfortable chairs, and become a true artiste. :)

1. find the nearest snowy hill, break down box, sit on box, SLED DOWN HILL ON BOX!
2. new year’s resolution - travel more
3. i sit in a chair more than 9 hrs a day. this chair would do wonders for my life.

1. Big box + inquisitive cat = new owner-approved cat playground! Our kitty, Penny Lane, is a total box junkie and with a few strategic modifications to enhance her experience she’d have hours of fun (and just maybe leave our poor pup Molly alone for a little while - the box and its contents would benefit three people in the house!).
2. My resolution is to read more. Lately I’ve read books mainly for pleasure, but I’ve resolved to read two a month that fall into both the human resource/employee management and small business/company management categories. Although, my chiropractor did mention yesterday that my resolution should be using my home traction device more consistently! A Steelcase Leap might please us both…ha ha.
3. A Steelcase Leap would mean I’d get to get rid of the hand-me-down chair from my partner’s sister (I’m actually the third owner and the use shows!). I’d be able to sit at my desk and not lean to the right all day and just maybe my arms would rest comfortably on arm rests *sweet bliss!*, rather than hover in the air or on my desk.

1) Fort … we have to defend ourselves :D
2) Travel a lot (with the chair obviously) … it has wheels right?
3) I stay on the chair very long … a better chair = a better day :)

What a chair!
1. A box like this will have several lives at our house. The kids will be in and out of it until I can’t stand tripping over it in the living room anymore. It may serve a dropcloth function for projects in my daughter’s new ‘classroom’ in the basement. And then, of course, the Baltimore County recycling trucks will take if off to a better place…
2. My resolution is to both read and apply some fo the Abs Diet book I bought… last year. Skimmed some last night, and it look slike I get to eat 6 small meals a day … this one might work.
3. I’m torn beteween bringing the chair to work, where I do most of my office chair sitting, or leaving it at home. Most of my at home sitting is in an easy chair, but this would almost be enough motivation to reclaim the downstairs office from the clutter that has accumulated there.

Thanks for another great contest.

1. this massive box would be re-used as a box once again to help move me and my lovely boyfriend into our yurt!!

2. my new year’s resolutions are as follows: start a compost pile, use less, be more, pay more attention to the things i love and less to the things that just don’t matter

3. i’m a designer so i spent 4 years in college learning about ergonomics. my professors would probably beat me severely with triangles and french curves if they knew just how horrible of a chair i sit in every day at my computer pouring over inspiration, blogs, and market research. the leap chair would change my life in many good ways! i bet it will even make me pretty and more popular too. :)

1. I’d flatten the box and use it to cover the floor for an upcoming painting project.
2. Don’t have much use for resolutions, but I suppose more effort to get exercise would be a logical one.
3. This one’s easy. We need a new office chair because our 15yr old cheap Ikea chair has finally worn out, and my wife needs to use separate back support whenever to do freelance work in our home office.

1. In my quest to streamline and simplify, I’m planning to clean out some closets that have been collecting odds and ends for years, so I would actually fill up the box with stuff to donate, rent a zipcar, and take it all to the Salvation Army and a local woman’s shelter. Then, I’d use industrial-strength scissors to break down the box for recycling.

2. I’m on a general quest to consume less, make my life simpler and more enjoyable. In 2009, I am especially committed to finishing my dissertation.

3. I spend my entire day at my computer, mostly working on the dissertation and preparing my classes—except for when I’m procrastinating by browsing NOTCOT and other wonderfully engrossing sites. Over the past two years, I’ve also spent hours scouring the net for a replacement for the non-ergonomic Staples chair that causes me all sorts of pain and whose non-adjustable armrests don’t allow me to make the most of my ergonomic keyboard. My budget is $150, so I haven’t found anything that looks like it’s well-designed and durable. I’m a big, six-foot tall woman, and the fully adjustable, brilliant, and gorgeous Steelcase chairs I’ve been able to try out in the wealthier offices of my University have left me looking forward to the day I can afford such craftmanship.

1. I’m a high school art teacher, so I would add it to my stash of materials initially, though it will probably become a lamp or an animal sculpture ala James Grashow.

2. I’m trying to create a habit of drawing everyday and blogging those images at onedrawingatatime.blogspot.com

3. Honestly, I would probably give it to my wife who has a much more sensitive back due to a bungee jump when she was 11.

1) The box? Geez, my kitty has been begging for a condo. Pimp that thing out with some carpet and scratchy things. Perfect!

2) Two words: FOOD BLOG

3) I think the Steelcase will save my butt. I’ve just accepted a new job and will be working from home. Right now I’m sitting on a kitchen chair that I bought from a rummage sale for $2. Granted, it has stars and moons painted on it, but owww.

1) I would definitely re purpose the cardboard for a model; I can’t be wasting valuable, recyclable resources.
2) To be healthier and increase my time management. Both school related, because 72-hour-straight final projects honestly don’t do anything for your back or diet (or sanity for that matter).
3) Keeping me productive for longer, staring at my drafting board for hours.

1. Save it for October, when I’ll use it as the body for my old-school, sci-fi robot Halloween costume.

2. Write a novel.

3. I Work from home, and have been doing the laptop-on-the-sofa thing for two years while my back and productivity suffer. Just got a great new desktop, and would love to sit at it in this swanky, sexy, ergo-chair (instead of the wooden kitchen chair I’ve been using — ouch!).

1. I’d remove one side of the box, add a crossbar, and use it as a mini closet to hang/store winter coats in my storage space.
2. New year’s resolution: Write something productive every day. And floss.
3. As a graduate student working on my dissertation, I could definitely benefit from a 17.8% productivity increase! And maybe with this chair, I won’t have the posture of a cocktail shrimp when I finally graduate.

1) Clearly this box will be used as a rocket ship so I can travel to Mars. Once I land on Mars it can be converted into MarsFRT-0001.

2) My new years resolution is to learn as much as I can without having to go back to school. Or perhaps make enough money so I can afford to go back to school. I’m thinking Human Computer Interaction, Art school again (maybe upgrade to a masters), or some fancy mathematics.

3) I don’t think the chair will help my social life, unless I call friends over to look at the chair. But I can see my back thanking me. Ikea chairs don’t cut it for 8 hours in front of the computer.

1. Multistage recycle! First, my two boys would make it into a fort. They would nerf attack the girls. Then the girls would get a shot at it, being given full liberty to decorate it. Afterwards, I could really use a large piece of it to lay down and stain a cabinet on top of. Some pure pieces of cardboard would end up in the gerbil cage. When we had gotten our full use of it, it would be cut up and set by the curb for the recycle folks.

2. To work out every morning with my wife. We’re on day 6 and doing well!

3. I work from home programming databases - and my office chair is really showing it’s age both in appearance and how it treats my back. The Leap sounds heavenly.

1.) I have two little boys of my own and many more that visit throughout the day. The only thing I would do with the box is hand it over to them and then try not to trip over it during the night.

2.) A couple of my resolutions are stop cussing (/sheepish), blog more (a la more comfy chair) and try and make my house less toxic by removing chemicals, plastics and other nasties. Much harder than I thought they’d be.

3.) Currently we use an exercise ball at the computer. Before this, we used a dining room chair, before that a patio chair. I don’t know why we haven’t got a new one. I think mainly it’s because there’s a foot of height difference between my husband and I. We can never decide on a chair. Having someone decide for us would be awesome!!

1 - I’d carve it up to make a giant photo reflector or two (just add tinfoil and spray glue)
2 - My goal is to improve by at least 10x in my work over last year.
3 - This chair would make my life better because a large part of my day is spent sitting around waiting for new NOTCOT posts. I fill in the gaps by working at some kind of ‘day job’. A comfy chair would sure make life a little better for ol’ Kev. yep. ‘twould be a sight better if I had a nice chair.

1. I’m drafting patterns for new dolls, and since I am trying to get myself to use a rotary cutter and save my hands, I just figured out that having pattern pieces made of something more solid than recycled paper grocery bags would be a good idea. So… cardboard pieces, here I come.

2. My New Years resolution is to find ways to save my hands/wrists. It’s not cool that they’ve started cracking and popping every time I flex my fingers, so wrist pads for typing, and a rotary cutter instead of scissors.

3. An ergonomic chair would help put me in the right posture for typing, and hopefully help with that wrist angle thing I’m working on. Hey, maybe I can move fabric cutting up to a table, and sit in a comfy chair while I do that too.

1. cut it into 8x10’s and use a backs for photographs.
2. be healthier
3. will help my poor back from sitting in crappy chairs at work…

1° : I’ll keep it to make my contribution to the box doodle project (http://www.neu-e.de/index.html)
2° : Drink more tea and less coffee !
3° : This chair may solve my backache ! I discussed last month with steelcase sustainable development initiative manager in France (André Malsch), and he told me it could be good for that !!!

1. The massive box would be great as a food pantry for those in need.
2. Our new years reveloution is to eat healthier and regular meals.
3. The steelcase leap would actually be for my hudsband, he has a really bad back so we are hoping this would help.

1. I would draw pictures all over it and staple gun it to somebody’s fence.
2. My new years resolution was to stop smoking and I haven’t had a cigarette since!
3. I would use it at my desk to help me start a freelance graphic/ identity design career. I just moved across the country and I don’t have a chair!!

1. break it down for art projects
2. to work on more non-work-related art projects
3. spruce up my desk, because the hand me down chair i have been using is pretty heinous (and uncomfortable)

1. Well. Perhaps I would either use the box as furniture, such as a little table by my door to put random stuff on. or maybe use it to store artwork.
2. My new years resolution is to grow a beard.
3. This chair will help my life because it will give me a reason to set up all my computer stuff on my desk and use it there, rather than having it on the night table by my bed.

1. Box. I’d recycle it into a sled. For about 2 Runs.
2. Resolution: http://plentywant.blogspot.com/. Essentially, in an effort to live simpler, I’m only having 99 beers this year.
3. Chair. Would let me be more productive in my work, by letting me sit still for a minute and actually finish something.

Then I can go sledding and then have a beer. And blog about it.

1) It will become a lemonade stand for my little cousins
2) 1024 × 768
3) I will no longer suffer the pains from the office’s Herman Miller knock-off chairs. Most corporate workers will know what I mean. It’s a universal truth.

1. make a 1/4 replica of the steelcase chair
2. be more naked to show off my sharpie tattoos
3. this chair will help me become more sexy and build my cartoon empire (sexy first, then empire)

1) I would use the box to teach others to paint and draw on a larger scale.
2) My New Years Resolution is to sketch and take more photos.
3) The chair would increase my productivity.

1. I would keep the box, as I’ll be moving soon.
2. New Year’s Resolution would be to work smarter, not harder.
3. It would help w/ my current desk situation. My chair (inherited at this firm), has food stains of all types on it.

1.)I would take the box and use it to transmogrify myself into an elephant…or maybe I’ll convert it into a time machine.

2.)My biggest New Year’s Resolution for 2009 would be to get off of my bum to visit Amsterdam for my 40th birthday and take in some design culture by visiting the Van Gogh museum and reflecting on life at Anne Frank’s house.

3.)The Steelcase Leap will help my life because if I do win this awesome chair, I’m going to need somewhere to sit lest I faint or have to sit on our dinner table chair which is now my office chair without armrests. Do you know how hard it is to surf the internet holding your elbows up!?! Help me Leap into Ergonomic heaven ^_^

Im a computer science major with massive back pain….
I would use the box as storage, if it is big enough i would use it as my home for the next few weeks….

1) Make a mechanical looking mascot for my office

2) Work out at the gym more often and give more freely/often

3) It will make my full-time job seem THAT much better as my body feels better from it’s great supportive structure (like sitting on a cloud at work)

1. the box would become storage for my worn out, and disappointingly uncomfortable aeron chair.
2. my goal in 2009 is to spend more time in front of my computer making art, and less reading celebrity news blogs.
3. spending a good 15 hours a day in front of the computer over the past 10 years is wreaking havok on my body. i would love to spend my days sitting tall and comfortable, instead of slouching and being all bent out of shape. The Steelcase Leap is my only hope

1) this box will probably have multiple lives in my hands. first as maybe a dog tunnel/catcher, because my dog loves that. but then maybe as a dance floor/backer for airbrushing (they go hand in hand in my opinion)
2) along with the whole obligatory be healthier, i’m shooting for a’s in all my classes this quarter.
3) although this chair probably won’t fit in my dorm room (i don’t know though i’ve never seen one in person), i would keep it at my house where my dad will probably steal it and when i come home i’d steal it back to make late night creative bursts more comfortable.

1. Regift the chair and give it to my sister
2. My new year’s resolution - is to enjoy the year (and have more “me” time)
3. My sister has a bad back from an old injury so a ergonomic desk chair will definitely improve her comfort.

1. I’d make a cardboard boombox out of it and use the remainder for a makeshift dance floor so I can have my 80’s / early 90’s flashback complete with matching attire.

2. I really don’t make New Year Resolution’s. The only thing I really would love to do is finally get my artroom in order complete with photos on the wall, simplify my schedule, and make more time to be more crafty.

3. Well if I decide to craft more, this will help in making me comfortable and possibly being the reason I spend so much time being creative. Awesome chair = more creativity.

1.) Use it to get started on my robot costume for Halloween

2.) My resolution is to spend way more time in my art studio than last year (planning on putting in 10-20 hrs/week)

3.) This would totally get me to spend more time in my studio, which would lead to incredibly productive work sessions which would lead to great art being created which would lead to FAME and FORTUNE, thus providing a better life for me an my family.
I’m currently rocking an old ass drafting chair that destroys my back from hunching over. My other option is an old crappy school desk chair that I’m guessing is from the early fifties. 10 minutes on that thing and my ass is numb.

1) I’d unfold the box and use it as a canvas for delightful paintings of inky octopuses.

2) New Years Resolution is NO MORE PROCRASTINATIONS! (apparently if I’m on this site I’m off to a bad start)

3) The SteelCase Leap would help my life in the following ways:
- I’m certain my current desk chair is made of melted down WWII tanks. It’s heavy, uncomfortable and worst of all, it’s all I can afford.
- We would cross the county in a van, solving mysteries and saving lives.

Well, humor will take a back seat to need for me:

1) Honestly, that box will become a moving box. After moving four times in four and a half years, I’m about to make it five for five and need all the boxes I can get.

2) My New Year’s Resolution for 2009? Not to move again for at least two years! (Yes, I realize it may not be possible to ensure compliance with said resolution in the confines of one year, but dammit, I don’t want to move anymore!)

3) Why do I deserve it? Who doesn’t deserve a great chair, but as to me, specifically, I work in a windowless, 9x12 ft. office that I share with another person, doing a job I am overqualified and under-enthused for, sitting on my bum for nine hours a day trying not to get carpal tunnel by switching mousing hands every 45 minutes—a chair is the least I deserve. ;-)

1.) I would most definitely use it to make my next halloween costume (sorry, I would love to post a pic of this), but last year I made a tin-man costume entirely out of cardboard including the body, legs, arms, even the ax. But the best part was the cardboard briefs that I constructed… .yes, I made cardboard underwear. Spray painted everything metallic silver and WHAMMO - tin man costume for nothing. It was definitely my crowing Halloween achievement.

2.) Stop slouching at work - if only I had a decent work chair to help with my posture … . .

3.) This is a sad story actually, but hopefully will help me win this chair to help with my problem:
For the past 5 years I have been suffering from extreme neck discomfort beginning from the time I wake up. It’s grown worse throughout the years, but the worst part is that no doctors can figure out the problem. I’ve been to 7 different “specialists” and have tried the below procedures/solutions:

1. Physical Therapy
2. Trigger Point Injections
3. Facet Injections
4. Epidural Steroid injections (dang that’s a lot of needles now that put it on paper!)
5. Countless drugs (anti-inflamitories, muscle relaxers, pain relievers, etc.)
6. PNT (crazy thin electrode needles stuck in my muscles)
7. Rhysotomy (caulderizing of the nerve endings around the spine - fun, huh?)
8. Chiropractic (2 years running - I don’t think it’s doing much)
9. Botox (not the self-indulgent, vain kind …)

Nothing’s worked. I’ve been trying to find a good chair and the Leap chair is on the top of my list, but I just can’t afford it new. If I win, I will also contribute to the economy by purchasing a head rest as well so that I can rest my neck at work. This could improve the afternoons and evenings tremendously by relieving some of the discomfort in my neck … .

1. I’d open both ends, lie it sideways and make a tank out of it (“climb” one wall of the box so that it rolls with you inside).

2. Save the world.

3. I need a chair I can sit in that doesn’t suck.

1. Boxes should be made out of materials that can either be eaten or planted. If none of those are possible with this box, i’d get a bunch of friends together some markers, and beer, create some handsome motif on the box, put some dirt in it and plant a tree.

2. For the new year i would like to rely less on Facebook for social interaction.

3. I’m not sure if this chair will help me, i’ll hafta get back to you after i’ve used it for a while.

1. oh a fort, for sure.
2. no resolutions, wah!
3. it would increase my productivity since I have to use a metal folding chair at my desk :(

1) Turn it to a work of art or save it for when I move
2) Loose 10 pounds for our wedding @ Unity Temple in May!
3) I don’t know how it will improve my life, I need one to tell you how it does!

1) The box: to pack up my troubles.
2) Resolution: avoid accumulating more troubles.
3) How will the Steelcase Leap improve your life?: trouble-free seating!

1) I would create a puppet theater and appoint myself head puppeteer.
2) My new years resolution is to bake something delicious every week and not feel bad about eating it.
3) The Steelcase Leap will help my life by encouraging me to keep up my blog while not injuring my legs (by laying down on the couch whilst blogging). Also I have bad posture and I’ve been working hard to try to fix it…again, not easy on the couch.

May Canadians enter?

Just in case:

1) My friend’s little boy would use it as a fort first, and then it would probably be used as mulch in the garden (depending on the type of cardboard).

2) My resolution is to get out and participate in my community more rather than staying at home for most of my spare time.

3) It would make me more comfortable both at the computer and at my desk when I’m working on other projects.

1. Handy storage for the pile of boxes I amassed over the holidays.

2. I resolve to eat more chocolate. Wish me luck!

3. A new Leap chair from Steelcase will increase my productivity 17.8%, and so enable me to work 28 hrs 30 min per day. CHA-CHING!

Well now… The box will serve as an excellent kitty playground — three cats plus big box and packing materials… endless fun.

I’ve resolved to make my home office less of a pit: better organization and furniture… I’ll get organized if I win a new chair!

And I work out of the house. If I get that office cleaned-up AND have a spiffy, nice looking chair, then I can have my clients visit me instead of always schlepping across town to see them: That will improve my life.

Cheers,
-steve

1. Make indoor shutters for my window. It gets hot in the pimp pad sometimes, need sun block!
2. My New Year’s resolution this year is to get a job, get a life, and get going to far away places.
3. I would give this chair to my Mom — she is at a desk all day and pours over plans and docs and stuff — she needs a healthier way to sit & work!

1. Put my old computer chair in it and give it to someone else.
2. Be bluntly honest with everyone.
3. I sit in front of a computer all day at work, then I come home and do it some more. oooooh what an awesomee schedule.

1. Build a cubicle fort. Defend at all costs.
2. Bring contagious positivity and productivity to life and the workplace.
3. Give it to my co-worker whose current chair is way past its expiration date.

1. I would probably try to sound proof my recording studio with it or perhaps make cardboard person to stand in my parking spot when I am not around.
2. My new years revolution is to spend more time making music and less time talking about making music.
3. I recently moved back to SF and am making a home studio to work out of.
I am currently sitting on a little wooden stool that has not only seen better days, but is intended to probably reach things off high shelves.

1) A fort with the kids, definitely. Port and starboard cannon attachments and a papercraft pirate crew to go with it.

2) I’ve stopped keeping resolutions ever since I realized that I really hate the gym. I prefer to keep a “new outlook on life,” in which case it’s, “take nothing for granted.”

3) I’m working on becoming a freelance web developer, and this chair would definitely help me work longer hours without totally killing my back.

1. First, I’d use the box as part of a mockup for built-ins we need for storage and office space. We’re having a tough time agreeing on how the new unit should be composed, so we agreed to build full-size mockups out of corrugated board. When we’re done with that, we’ll recycle the corrugated board.

2. I really do have to lose 55 lbs, as I am now on the wardrobe diet (I’m getting too fat for my clothes, and refuse to buy bigger sizes).

3. The back of my office chair is shot, so I have to sit straight up on the edge of the chair, or slouch. The new chair would enable me to sit properly, and for longer periods, and make fewer visits to the chiropractor (in fact, I’m going today).

1) I would either a) make it into a giant pop-up sculpture, or b) turn it into the world’s largest pinhole camera.

2) For 2009, I’ve resolved to return to being bold! I used to take a more fearless and badass approach to the world, but I’ve become something of a shrinking violet over the past couple years. Time to reclaim boldness! Talk to that guy at the gym! Write that book proposal! Make more art (see #1)!

3) As a freelance writer and editor, I sit in front of a monitor alllll day long, and the Steelcase Leap would keep me from slouching, so I’d have more zip in my spine to go big and be bold (see #2).

1. I am pretty boring, I would just to it to collect recyclables until its full and then take it to a recycling center.

2. My new years resolution is to play more board and card games with my wife. She loves that stuff.

3. If I won I would give it to my wife. She works for the federal government and her chair at work is a beat up hand me down that isn’t very comfortable at all. This would make her very happy.

1. Make a sweet ball pit for the kiddies
2. Resolution is to have better posture
3. Um, the kids broke my office chair. Using a dining room chair now

1. paint the outside and then use it to store my art supplies!
2. new year’s resolution for 2009- don’t procrastinate + keep drawing, crafting & experimenting to fulfil my dream.
3. my back would be in heaven. i badly need a proper chair for my desk, for sitting all day on a chair without a back is serious shit. plus having a proper chair would help me work better yes? ;)

1) Transform the box into a giant butterfly mobil for my daughter’s room and cut the remining scraps into food shapes and paint for her toy kitchen
2) Join a jazz band
3) A Steelcase Leap would help my life by making my late night work feel like early afternoon with a chair that adjusts to me and definitely would help make my office look like a grown up office.

1. Use the box to make a Transmogrifier like in Calvin and Hobbes.
2. New Years resolution, to transmogrify myself into a dinosaur, probably a T-Rex
3. T-Rex need comfy chairs, duh.

1. I would most definitely build a spaceship. An awesome spaceship I would attempt to sleep in at least one night.
2. Stepping out of my boat or box or whatever it is that makes me shy in particular situations.
3. I slipped a disc in my back during my college soccer alumni game over a year ago and I’m still feeling the pain. Since I’m a graphic designer I’m sitting all day and I know this chair would make spinning and thinking so much more comfortable.

1. I would build my own private break room in the back of the office.

2. To be happier/healthier.

3. My boss has a Herman Miller Aeron Chair. I need to let him know he can’t use it to push me around anymore. Plus my back is the worst.

1) Well, personally, I would build a fort, but for me, not the kids. In reality, my daughter would demand a puppet theater and make me perform at least two shows a day.

2) To live life to the fullest. We don’t know how much time we have and I want to stop thinking of my dreams in life as something that happens in the future. I want to start living them now. I don’t mean flying off to Italy whenever I feel like it (but damn, that would be awesome), but to live my current life as best I can. Doing more of what I love and be there for the ones I love. So far, it’s going pretty well.

3) The Steelcase Leep would save my back and finally let me destroy the hand-me-down chair that has been torturing my back. I’ve researched chairs and this is the one I want! I’ve looked at the other chair manufactures (Humanscale, Herman Miller, etc.) and they have good chairs, but this one rocks. I know how much research Steelcase has put into this chair. I want a 17.8% increase in productivity!

Nearly every year near Christmas, my back goes out and I blame my crappy chair that’s falling apart. Last year, I was stuck on the threshold to my parents house with my back locked up. I was laying on my back for 3 days in a row because I couldn’t walk. I’m hunched over a computer all day and my posture is really poor. I know this chair can help my health. I’ve been trying to save the money for it, but I haven’t had much luck. Please, please, please…

I would perform a “Twister”… you know, the game with coloured circles for feet and hands.

1. I would mash it up with some water and make it into an end table.
2. I do not do resolutions because I just see people setting themselves up to fail and that is not the way to happiness.
3. This chair would help my life because it would provide a good seat for the tank that I am building with which to invade the nation of babies. If not this, then it will be the sat from a Ford Escort which will not support me ergonomically.

A. Make a new office chair for my cocker spaniel, Riley, so he could sit next to my new office chair.
B. One page of the new novel every day.
C. Help me win this year’s office chair race.

1. It will replace my small box/desk.

2. To stop sitting on the floor.

3. An elevated perspective.

1. use the box to construct an equally ergonomic, confortable, and functional desk/ workspace prototype.

2. GEt back in school, work towards a design degree, and express my creative impulses.

3. If I take it to work, it would make my boring data mamagement job more comfortable and make me the envy of the floor.
If I use it at home, it would allow me to get lost in pouring out my creatve energies into my work without having to adjust as its comfort level increases with time.

1—Cut a few holes in it and spray it with catnip spray for a very happy kitty fort.
2—Keep my house cleaner … not off to a good start as yet.
3—I’ve got a cheap plastic folding chair at my computer desk at home, which makes it difficult to work for more than 30 minutes at a time without my butt screaming in agony. This chair would give me one less excuse to avoid getting some writing done on my dissertation.

With this massive box, I would declutter; Fill with stuff of mine that I no longer want, and donate it to some charity (usually Salvation Army). Then I would take it to my local recycling place.

One of my new years resolutions is to replace the creaky computer chair that I’m sure is going to fall apart one day when I roll back from my desk.

This chair looks like it’d improve my life by making my hours at the desk much more comfortable, not to mention beautiful. Well I’d still be the same attractiveness, but at least my chair would be more beautiful. Or maybe the chair makes me more beautiful too? I can see that.

1. Give it to a homeless for shelter.
2. To travel across seas for the first time in my life.
3. Get rid of my back pain by replacing my IKEA chair.

(1) I would use a wooden stick with a split at the top to raise one of the boxes edges off the ground. A length of rope would then be tied to the stick. The ropes end would be concealed behind a wall or other form of elevation that would hide a crouching body. Under the box some form of tempting bait, a carrot perhaps, would be placed. Having accomplished this I would settle in and wait…

(2) My new years resolution is to catch more varmints.

(3) The Steelcase Leap would help me sit. I would grasp it’s ample arm rests and use them to guide my body down to it’s waiting cushion. Having achieved this I would lean arching my back slightly and opening my shoulders in order to achieve optimal support.

1) I would use the box like Snake from Metal Gear Solid and sneak around in it from place to place.
2) My New Years Resolution was to spend less money and eat more vegetables.
3) As a medical student I have to sit at my desk a lot studying for various exams and to help patients. I think that a chair like this will help me sit comfotably for longer, benefiting both me and my patients (present and future).

1) Put a LID/ceiling on my cubicle! I don’t like the bright lights above =)
2) To pay off all of my debt (really, it’s not too much).
3) If you saw the chair I was sitting in, you’d understand. A new chair would certainly help me to be nicer to my customers and coworkers. I am known for NEVER leaving my cubicle, so I do sit a lot.

1) I would keep the box as is. I seem to have a problem where I must keep all the boxes from my purchases. So in this case, I would use the Steelcase box to store all my other boxes. OCD much?

I already have a nostalgic cardboard dance floor somewhere at my parents house from my b-boy daze :P

2) My 2009 new years resolution is to move to Hong Kong and travel Asia for 5 years with my sweety. Toronto will always be home, but I want to see the world.

3) I work from home as a freelance designer/developer. All nighters are the norm. If, when rather, I leave for Asia, I will leave the marvel of engineering with my dear mother. She could definitely put it to good use until I get back.

Happy 2009 Everyone!

1. I’d make a desk. Get the uber hifi/lofi dichotomy between the chair and it.

2. Write a letter (a REAL letter) every week.

3. The leap would go to my Mom who needs a good tush cushion! She’s getting older and I want her to have the best ergonomic furniture available.

1) I would use it to put all my “to donate” clothes in…currently they’re all over my floor and I don’t have a good way to put them together to take to Salvation Army.
2)My New Year’s Resolution is to get my first post-graduate job before the end of 2009 (I graduate in May)
3)This Leap chair will allow me to at last sit up straight and stop aching!

1) I’ll take the cardboard and make it into another chair for my coworkers to sit on while they admire the Steelcase Leap and suppress their jealousy.

2) Stop drinkningidangaiodsg so much cooffeeee!@#$!@$!@$!!@

3) Finally having a real chair to sit on and do work will make me less tempted to do work from my bed, where i just start to get sleepy and never seem to finish anything that i

1. Make a second less comfortable chair for a jealous friend.

2. Work hard, Study harder.

3. Not get a cramp from using an old chair that is more than a little worse for wear.

1) My cat Lola would claim it as his own and sit proudly in and on it day in and day out.
2) I’m going to floss more, I’m not going for everyday, I’m shooting low and hoping for a few days a week.
3) The chair would make me hurt less. I work for the state and I sit at my computer all day. The government buys the cheapest chairs possible and so my poor mid-20s back hurts way more than it should.

01. I would cut the box down & build another chair, modeling it after my Stepmother’s creation. (As seen here: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/100/283959839_5318e89e02_o.jpg)
02. My resolution this year is to go on as many adventures as possible.
03. I currently use an IKEA fold out chair as my chair support, and being a full-time student, working on multiple projects on the computer can get quite uncomfortable.

1. Create a side table using all the packaging
2. To become credit independent, live within my means
3 I will use the chair everyday at work to facilitate the beginings of great design. I am a Furniture Designer

1) Boxes of this size do not have just one use. So even if I turn it into a pirate ship, my cat will surely have his own ideas about how it will be used. Personally, I wouldn’t mind turning it into a tiny game room that holds a bean bag chair and a Nintendo DS.

2) I don’t make resolutions, but I pick yearly keywords - this year’s word is “Passion”. Of a life-altering sort, not a daytime soap opera sort.

3) Good chairs are a big investment for a small business office, so my partner and I are still sitting on the $50 Office Depot chairs we bought in ‘01. Even tho I’m too short for my legs to touch the ground when I’m sitting on mine. So, the Steelcase Leap would not only be a massive improvement in comfort and productivity, but it would reduce the amount of seating-related crap I have around my desk in order to make my current chair functional (lumbar pillow, foot stool, cushion, stilts, scaffolding).

1) The box would become my cabin and when attached to my mighty ball00n (still lookin on craigslist for that one) would lift me up…UP and AWAY !!!
until i crashed into the neighbor’s yard.
2) stop eating so much candy so i can fix my chompers….and eat MORE candy !
3) i could FINALLY sit comfortably again !! with a crappy metal spine..comfort becomes a myth . hMmMm….

1. Build a fort.

2. I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions. If I’m actually going to do something, I don’t need a special day to make me do it.

3. This chair will replace my aging desk chair that is held together with gorilla tape and rope.

1) I’d turn it into a guest cottage in the backyard.
2) To finally kick my business into full gear and figure out what the hell I’m doing with my life.
3) I sit on a keg. Seriously. I have a bad back that gets killed by most folding or desk chairs. I found an old, old keg in the barn that was small enough to slide under my desk. So I created a padded top for it. It works but I’d really love something with support.

1.I would use it to complete the cardboard chair I’m working on for my grad school portfolio. They’ve stopped giving me leftovers at the art supply store down the street!

2.Get myself into graduate school, so I can get an MAT and teach design and art. While I’ve enjoyed my time as a designer, I’m ready for a new chelleng. Woo!

3. I work my butt off and it would be nice to have something comfy to put my butt ON while I am doing so!

1. I´m studying product design and in March I take part of one Workshop in Italy, where 52 student from 10 countrys will build a means of transport out of CARDBOARD with which to participate in the downhill race on the ski slopes. But before workshop I and 3 other students from my university must practice designing and building a cardboard vehicle and that for I must gather A LOT of CARDBOARD. This MASSIVE BOX is just perfect for my design project!

2. To be more helpful to others, beacause I will never know, when I self need some help. We should try do solve problems, not just turn a blind eye and walk by. Maybe I&you can help.

3. I’m sure that STEELCASE LEAP is very comfortable and healthful, and that’s just what in need! I must work a lot at my desk with many different projects and schoolworks, which take hours and are exhausting. But STEELCASE LEAP will increase my productivity and after sitting lots of hours in Steelcase Leap I will definitely feel much healthier, and got positive energy.

1) I would create a huge recycling bin.
2) New Years Resolution: continue to have grace for people and be kind
3) I would give it to my hard working wife who is a 5th grade teacher. Her current chair is less to be desired and kills her back.

1) I would use it to package up my old chair and donate it to charity
2) My new year’s resolution is to sit up properly and fix this stupid tendinitis in my wrist once and for all.
3) Steelcase could help me achieve my dream of having a pain-free work day!

1.
I would turn the box into a pinhole camera and then take photos of the Steelcase Leap in unusual landscape surroundings.

- cut it up and use to back little pieces of art i have in a pile
- sign a treaty with my alarm clock
- posture posture posture!

1.I would build a castle for my nephews next birthday.
2. I will ride my bike more often.
3. I currently sit on a very uncomfortable wooden chair. The new Steelcase Leap chair would make working long hours way more enjoyable.

I’ll be honest, I’ve entered a lot of these NOTCOT giveaways and really just want to win one, this one actually. But hey, it’s all in Lady Luck’s hands now. Bon chance me.

1. I would build a rocketship.

2. My New Year’s Resolution is to drive happier. I have a 45 minute commute alongside a lot of crazy drivers. Life’s too short to spend almost 2 hours a day wanting to give every single person the finger.

3. I think I spend almost 16 hours a day sitting down, between being a graphic designer at work, commuting to and from work, and then sitting at home doing more graphic design to better my portfolio and personal opportunities. (Can I change my Resolution to stand up more?) I feel like my job and life traps me in chairs, and I’ve been wondering for a while what a nice chair might do to help me.

1. I will probably be moving soon, so it would make an excellent moving box.
2. To actually finish my strategy game.
3. Since I spend nearly all of my time sitting in some computer chair or another, I suspect it will drastically improve my butt’s quality of life.

put the most annoying coworker in it, and ship it off across the country. That + the new chair would save me on $$$ on Advil and create a less stressful office.

1. I am a poor architecture student, so I would recycle the box by using it for model building materials.

2. My new years resolution is to learn and educate myself more about all aspects of life and design to nurture my growth as an architect in design.

3 As an architecture student, we spend many nights in studio with little sleep while sitting in very uncomfortable metal stools. With the Steelcase Leap chair, not only will I enjoy and be inspired by the amazing design aspects of the chair, both is function and aesthetics, it will make those many all nighters in the studio more enjoyable by giving my comfort while i design.

1) There’s a good chance that I would slowly eat it over a period of days and weeks.

2) I resolve to eat more corrugated cardboard.

3) The process of digesting corrugated cardboard is notoriously hard on one’s back. I’m absolutely sure that the Steelcase Leap could relieve my suffering.

1. build a fort with the kids. wait, I don’t have kids: I mean - build a fort for ME!!!

2. I don’t do new years resolutions. BUT, if I did do them, it’d be to make the most out of the food scene in London, Ontario (where I’m currently residing.)

3. Imagine cafeteria chairs from the 80’s, desks at the wrong height, and non temperature controlled rooms. That’s every day at the office for me - armed with two phone books to somewhat better the chair height to the desk (leaving a very numb bum 24 minutes into work) and a ceramic heater. The Stealcase Leap will be a LIFESAVER. Utterly and truly.

1) I would use the box to build a reduced scale model of the Steelecase Leap chair. I would then offer the cardboard sculpture to art galleries around the world for display to help market this fabulously designed chair.

2) My resolution for 2009 is to finish my business planning and launch my design business to the next level.

3) As a freelance designer, I spend many hours a day sitting in front of a monitor, at my desk hammering out concept sketches, or leaning back while chatting with clients and vendors over the phone. The Steelecase Leap is such a beautifully designed chair not only from an inspiring aesthetic perspective, but from a functional point-of-view as well. It really is a well thought out and successful design. I would proudly display this chair as if it were an art piece. With the reduction of physical stress caused by my present chair, I suspect my ability to create and solve problems, would increase drastically. I would also become a star member of my bowling team due to less back pain and stress.

1) I would use the box to create an addition to the local homless guys hovel.

2) My resolution is to do all the things you would need a resolution for, without making them resolutions, therefore my resolution would be to not resolute anything, and just do more/less of anyone thing.

3)The leap would help my life by straightening out my hunchback, thus making me less frightening to children.

1) The box would totally become the cats new house. I could mount it on the ceiling, the cat will manage to find it’s way up there somehow.
2) Lose 20lbs and become a gazillionaire. One of those might actually be possible….
3) After being hit my a car while riding my bike, my back has never recovered. This chair would most certain help ease the pain that I feel :(

1. I would turn the box into a table for my steelcase chair
2. My new years resolution for 2009 is to have something comfortable to sit on when I work
3. Most of my work revolves around sitting for hours on end, so having something as comfortable as a steelcase would help

1. The box would be used to fabricate a tack box for my wife’s saddle and tack.

2. Rework my portfolio for grad school.

3. My current seating arrangement pinches nerves in my back causing pain, especially when I sneeze.

1) I will probably break down the box and use the pieces as canvases for painting (poorly.)

2) I want to get into a regular schedule of meditation.

3) My current crappy Ikea chair with couch pillow is an embarrassment to both my ass and my apartment. Something so luxurious would not only solve both of these problems but also inspire me to spent more time writing, blogging and creating at my desk!

1) I would use the box as a home office!! (Perfect for my laptop).
2) My resolution is to become a more centered and healthy individual. What better way to start then a beautiful comfortable office chair?
3) I spend a lot of time in front of the computer at work. This chair will hopefully prevent my spine from looking like this ?.

1) Cardboard = Blank Canvas in my world. Either that or throw it on the pile for future cardboard furniture projects

2) Cut down on (or streamline) my many vices. Bacon coffee anyone?

3) My chair doesn’t roll anymore and we all know how important office chair races are!

1. I have a basement FULL of cans and bottles. I’m not prepared to pull 80 bags out of the basement to the depot, so maybe I could just use ONE big ol’ box instead!
2. I resolve to put more passion in my photography.
3. I just found out my wife is PREGNANT!! She has a bad back, and bad posture, so this chair would help her out tremendously!

1) First it would help my boyfriend and I move into our new place in a couple months, then it would be a fort, then an impromptu drop cloth/testing area for projects, then it would probably get recycled once more to be used in various projects.
2) To create more of my own things. To finish projects that I start. To sit up straight while accomplishing the former two.
3) The Steelcase Leap will finally give me a legitimate excuse to finish my faker office space and stop using it as a catchall for everything else. I could actually use it!

1. No doubt, build a fort. The kids love box forts. Who doesn’t?
2. My resolution is not to have a resolution…so far, so good.
3. I hope it would relieve the soreness in my bum from the cruddy old chair I have now.

1. I have a couple of toddlers in my life, we will make a spaceship out of the box. These things only last so long, it will eventually be worn thin, have jelly stains on it and a hole in the side from the cat chewing on it, only to ultimately be recycled.

2. To make more art (I will try my best to not get paint on this chair).

3. I am a slave to AutoCAD, this will tremedously help my posture.

great idea with the three questions !
1. I’d build an amazing fort for my cats :)
2. to live up to my potential and to be as nice to myself as i am to others
3. my cats will be happy, because of the fort i built and my back will be happy because of improved seating. I am still a student - i could never get a chair like that !

1) I put it to you the chief executive of steel case and not cot a simply impassable design proposal. I would use it to create a rocket ship with cardboard for fuel and cardboard airtight doors. The rocket will travel to proxima centauri where it will be recycled to create a cardboard colony on our solar systems nearest neighbouring star. We will then send back radiated material on cardboard cable car using spiderswebs to create the suspension system.

2) Stop taking drugs…
… so far no luck

3) It will become the command chair in my cardboard enterprise that will soon dominate intergalatic travel market. Virgin Galactic won’t know what hit them :)….

unless they happen to read this blog :(.

1)I’m moving from Chicago to LA for a new job in July…you could put a lot of stuff in to a box that big. (then I’d build a fort…to sleep in when my girlfriend puts me in the dog house.)

2)learn the value of a dollar.

3)Really, I’m just in it for the big box…

1. I’ll give the box the homeless guy who sleeps in front of the church on my street. I know that sounds terrible, but if the box really is that big he will probably want it.
2. My 2009 resolution is to give more to charity.
3. The Leap chair will vastly improve my life because my back already hurts today and its only 1:30!

1) I will turn my box into a 3d penguin sculpture for my apartment hallway.

2) A resolution of mine is to plant more flowers.

3) I have a grumpy college teacher that always complains about the office chairs. I will actually give this chair to him, and it’ll make my life better because he’ll have one less thing to complain about.

1) The box would be much loved by our two kids. It’d likely first be a club house (no girls allowed) and ultimately morph into a space ship of some sort. It’s likely be in our basement for several months before we finally convince them that it’s time to part with it as we need the room. At that point, it’d be moved to the back yard where it’d live on as a fort until the first big rain. And then it’d be put to rest on the curb for recycling pick-up.

2) In our new basement remodel…a) finish the home office b) finish the excercise room

3) The Steelcase Leap would allow me to finish our home office without having to have it be 100% IKEA. I love Ikea, but one can only take so much. I’d rather replace our dumspster-dived chair with a wonderful and economical Leap over an IKEA chair (as mice as they may be for the price). It’s also orange, so much more aesthetically pleasing. And, finally, I’d have a MUCH better back.

1) I would add wheels for a home made soap box race car!!!! FUN TIMES AHEAD
2) My resolution is to get out of debt and to do more humanitarian aid work
3) It would give my small home office meaning again and finally allow me to retire the POS chair I’ve had forever that started as a hand me down in the 70’s.

The box would become a metaphor for my creative base, with the chair being the transformation from old to new.

In a performance-like art piece, I would demonstrate the idea by taking the chair out of the big box, assembling the pieces to form a functioning art piece, then, spin myself in circles to stimulate the creative process. Only after this process, I would comfortably make art for the rest of the chair’s lifetime.

Then, I’d probably recycle the box or throw my dirty clothes in it.

1. I would use the box to pack my belongings and ship it home (Indonesia) for good. Why? See #2.
2. Start a company before August 2009 and make it profitable within 3 months.
3. A good chair will help me concentrate to create beautiful & functional products.

1. I would probably take the box back to my gallery and reuse it to ship art orders wherever they may be. Big boxes are hard to come by and I’ll all about reusing things!!

2. One of my new years resolutions is to spend more time in front of the computer expressing myself rather than letting it express me. Less time on youtube and hulu and more time writing, designing and coding things!

3. The current chair I’m using has a broken bar support so I’m constantly balancing just to maintain it.

1. Paint the box with Maya hieroglyphs and designs so I’ll have my very own Maya stela.
2. Get more sleep.
3. I’ll be able to more comfortably spend many hours researching and writing the monthly newsletter of the Pre-Columbian Society.

1. I would cut up the box to create smaller canvases for my artwork and also create the frames for the artwork to decorate my office.

2. I have too many resolutions, but the one that is probably most relevant here is to make both my home and work offices more comfortable and inviting.

3. I suffer from tendinitis and this chair will help me to get through many nights of hand and computer drafting.

ooo! I like!!

1> Fill it with *sighs* of content, seal tightly, and mail back to Steelcase to show my gratitude.

2> Resolution: More Sitting — Less Standing!

3> Well, what better way to weather a BAD economy than through GOOD ergonomy!

1) Give it to a friend who plans to move in the near future.
2) Have a smaller carbon footprint by driving less, buying more recycled items, unplugging more, and turning off frequently. It’s all about options.
3) My boyfriend of the last three years, who is now my fiance, will be moving from Vancouver to LA to live with me. He works from home, has a less than perfect back, and will be sacrificing his precious Aeron for our future happiness. This chair would be perfect for his new home office.

With rent as it is in NYC, if the box is good enough for a Steelcase Leap, it is good enough for me. I will happily move in to my new and roomier apartment.

My New Year’s Resolution is to make money (and write less metaphysics (seriously)).

The Steelcase Leap will enhance my life because my current chair, though it has been wonderful for years, I have worn through. The padding has lost its loft so much that I can feel the bolts that hold the seat to the base when sitting. I scrape my leg on the spot where I have physically worn the foam down to the plywood. I will finally get to retire my lumbar support cushion.

Once I have a real chair I will be ready to conquer the world: when I was a toddler I threw a temper tantrum because my parents wouldn’t get me a quality chair to sit in. I’m still angry at them about this but if you all would oblige me with a Steelcase Leap, I think I can see it in my heart to forgive them and be free.

1. I have 7 grandkids who would love to cut windows and a door in the box and pretend it is their secret place when they visit Grandpa (but mostly it would be to hide from Grandma when they don’t put their toys away).

2. I started doing CrossFit in November of last year and have lost 16 lbs and several inches since then so I am resolved to take the leap to continued weight loss, having a better sitting posture and living a healther life style—but mostly to keep up with my wife who does triathlons and kicks butt in her age group!

3. In case I win, Steelcase will replace the non-Steelcase in the place where I case Internet places and take giant leaps of imagination all from the comfort of my favorite Steelcase Leap place.

1) Break it down and break dance, then with all the money I make serving fools who dare challenge me on the street I can buy one for both home and work.
2) TO WIN MORE CONTESTS!
3) My chair at work might as well be a little wooden stool with a leg missing. Couple hours and I’m fine, any longer than that I’m white knuckling it. Thank god I work for a hospital. YAY SAMPLE MEDS!

1. I would use it as a changing screen because my sister, brother, and father keep opening my bedroom door without knocking while I am changing clothes.

2. Increase patience. Decrease negativity. (in all aspects of my life)

3. I have long thighs and a bubbly butt so most chairs don’t accomodate for them and I end up slipping forward off my chair or trying constantly to readjust the seat settings to no use. I NEED THIS CHAIR!

1. I would paint the box to look like a massive 80’s boombox and walk down the street.
2. Be a better husband and father (not that I was crap to begin with)
3. My current work chair is a piece of crap from Ikea. The “man” won’t spring for a new one. While my back would thank you, me @ss is pleading!?!?!?

I did some serious closet cleaning and I have a huge pile of clothes and coats waiting to be donated. I’ve been waiting for a massive box to come around so I can carry all the stuff to the donation place - and I love it that they put that idea on the box.

One of my ‘09 resolutions, besides donating ALL the stuff I own and don’t need/use, is to take better care of my body. I spend all day sitting at a tiny desk on a hard chair, and I’m fixing that this January! I have already designed a new ergonomically correct workspace for myself, all measured to my height. Now I need the perfect ergonomically sound chair. I need a Leap!

The Steelcase Leap will free my mind from the distractions of an uncomfortable work day, when I have to worry about my sore back, my tired arms, my tight neck. It will take care of my body so that my mind can fully focus and I can achieve maximum creativity and productivity.

1) I’d open up the box into a large flat blocking board for my lace knitting.
2) To use my fiber stashes more creatively.
3) I work in front of a computer all day long and anything that might relieve the daily shoulder pain is welcome.

I love painting on cardboard. Have for a long time. Would totally use it as a free canvas. My new years resolution is to continue with my diet and exercise plan which has been going strong for 3 months and doing great. and 3… I literally broke my awesome desk chair this very morning. Snapped one of the feet right off. Now I’m on this janky stool and it’s making my day terrible.
All I did was lean to the side to get my wallet out and POW and I’m on the floor feeling like an idiot. Please help a brotha out! :)

1. Make a small bench.
2. Design more using recycled materials like the box.
3. My productivity will blast off and my spine will thank me for it.

1. Give it to my mother. She LOVES boxes. Then, in the not too distant future, someone will need a chair sized box and she will be the world’s most excited person.
2. I resolve to quit my job. It’s time.
3. With this chair, I could spend more time at my computer on freelance jobs, facilitating Number 2, above.

1) Toboggan with down hills
2) Cut alcohol out for one month
3) It’ll help my life by helping my back.

1) use the cardboard to continue building my miniture cardboard city
(sunfuzz.blogspot.com)

2) save up enough money for a HD camcorder

3) i will use it to get one step closer to being a dentist

1) I will probably use it to make a night table, and a wardrobe (I just moved!)

2) My purposes are to be more open to opportunities, do les work-related stuff and more of my own, play more guitar, and keep on drawing.

3) Well I just moved to a different country, therefore I still have no chair. And the Steelcase will be a very useful addition to my apartment. It will be of tremendous aid when drafting and colouring on the computer, will probably improve my posture of course, but also my scholarship essays!! Because I will be able to finish them in one sit. And because my apartment is so small it will probably be the dinning/breakfast chair too, so better posture and more happiness all day long!!!!

1. I would give the gigantic box to my niece, she is nearly 2 years old and is in the age where she could be amused for HOURS with a box that is bigger than she is. Having the toddler entertained would be helpful for my sister since she is an expecting stay at home mom and is exhausted by the endless amount of energy my niece has. 2. My new years resolution is to get myself promoted so that I may climb the corporate ladder and make MAJOR progress on the MBA program I have just started and since I am a sales rep who works from home who will also have lots of homework 3. This awesome chair would help me remain comfy and focused while I spend many hours working my way to that corner office with a view.

1) Break it down and use it to make some architectural models for class - corrugated cardboard is often the best material to make walls from! (it looks so textural!)
2) Get off my butt and exercise more! (and drag people with me!)
3) Spending 16+ hours in studio every day in front of a computer isn’t exactly doing good for my back!

1. Times are tough. I see a paper mansion? Or model making material! Or papercraft at a large scale?

2. Like everyone else, lose weight.

3. It will make my butt very happy and save me money as I can stop going to the chiropractor for my “computer back”.

1. I’d build a fort for sure. I want one in my room!
2. Read more.
3. It will definitely help my back because I’m sure it’s crooked.

1] Turn it into a massive lightbox for my photography.

2] Cut out negativity. Besides, who needs it anyway.

3] Good posture is cliche but helpful. Also, it’s easier to have a chair with wheels on hardwood floors rather than my old metal one.

1. I will fold it and keep it for when I need to move
2. My goal is to become a minimalist in 2009 (consume less, reuse more)
3. I’m seated for about 10 - 12 hours a day, this chair will make those hours worthwhile

1. I’ve seen people make like, lawn chairs I guess, out of cardboard. I’d like to do that so I can have some furniture on my apartment balcony.
2. I had a few resolutions this year, but the most important was to have fun and live life to the fullest.
3. Right now I’m using a simple, steel with old cushion desk chair. The apartment was furnished and I got that crap to sit on at my desk. It’s not really helping out the gluteus maximus right now. A new chair would help, but if it won’t fit in my room I’ll give it to my mom and dad because they have back issues.

So, what would I do with a huge box… Hmmm… Well, we have expanded our family by adding a kitten to the pack (we have 4 dogs already, and the cardboard can be recycled into a great jungle gym for the kitten, it’ll give him a place to play that the dogs can’t get at.

My New Year’s resolution (well at least the one I’ll admit to) is to sit down and write, to make it past the first chapter of the great novel I’ve been writing for years and never finishing…

And finally, how will the “Steelcase Leap” help me, it would make sitting down and writing the book that much easier!!

1. Portable dance floor. Breakdancing FTW.
2. My new year’s resolution for 2009 is to focus more. 2008 was a haze of bad relationships, a terrible job, and finishing the last grueling leg of my Masters program.
3. I just left my stressful job in November and started my own home business. I bought a chair from Ikea (the Markus), and it worked great until the locking pin broke. Now I can’t sit in the damn thing for extended period of time without falling on my ass.

1. I would give it to my niece and nephew who would then use it at their imagination’s whim… I mean, why limit the use of the box as a fort, when it can be a castle, a house or a spaceship?

2. My New Years resolution is to create something new that will inspire other people.

3. As I will spend a lot of hours in front of my computer, I think that being in a really comfortable chair will make the experience a more pleasant one, and will allow my imagination to run free.

1. The real question is what would such a magnificently and potentially sentient box do with ME? (Hopefully not turn me into a fort.)

2. My resolution is to leave a world a better place at the end of the year than it was at the beginning.

3. I don’t know if the chair would help my life, but it would help my backside. Plus it’s a neat chair. Just being honest here.

1)My 2 year old would immediately claim it for his own. He’s discovered that big boxes are especially fun for hiding in and for being flipped around in. (He’s a bit of a daredevil)
2)My resolution is to make more money.
3)The leap would help, because I make a majority of my extra money through the internet and as a result, I sit at my computer a lot. The longer that I can sit there, the better and the leap would help that.

1. I’d use the box to forge armor for my little cousins against the cardboard robot/zombie invasion.

2. My resolution for ‘09 is to travel and experience more. I felt that I wasted a lot of my time in ‘08 and I need to change that before I’m too old to do the things I want to do. Everyone will tell you this, but life is short so I plan to make the best of it while I can.

3. The Steelcase Leap will definitely help me out while I do my artwork. I do all my work on photoshop so a nice comfy chair to sit on while I finish a 6 hour digital painting would be fantastic. Maybe it’ll stop me from slouching while I’m watching The IT Crowd too!

1. I would make a complicated maze out of it for my cat which she will hopefully never escape from.
2. I resolve to get a book or two published this year! Something that should have happened last year…
3. I’m an illustrator/comic book artist and my lifestyle causes me to spend about 90% of my time on my ass. So you’d think that I’d already have a nice chair to spend all that quality time with. Unfortunately, my lifestyle also causes me to be exceedingly POOR…

1. I would cut up the box and turn the pieces into several art projects (see #2), so recycling would meet creativity head on.

2. I’ve committed to completing 12 art projects in 2009 (1 per month naturally), several of which involve cardboard, such as creating bleach clothing tattoos and concrete furniture.

3. To but it bluntly, my current office chair SUCKS! Steelcase would make my life oh so much better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. Use it as a sled.
2. Go biking through the city more often.
3. My posture is quite horrible and my current desk chair is far too low for my desk so I’m probably destroying both my back and wrists at the same time. Hopefully this chair will help on those fronts.

1) I would use the box to definitely build a fort with my kids. And the cat would have fun it it as well. Eventually it would become a sled or a masterpiece for their art. No telling!
2) My news year’s resolution, is to do something nice for ME for once!
3) The Steelcase Leap will help my life, by providing me with a suitable place to sit while I work from home, so that I can be there more for my kids! Yay for telecommuting!

1) i would put other boxes into it.
2) 09 resolution - listen to more music and louder
3) so many things… first, i’d donate my current chair to goodwill (it still has some use), second, i’d instantly become more pleasant to be around because i’d be more comfortable when i’m working from home and, lastly, it’s just a fricking sweet chair so it would boost my self esteem and make me cooler.

1. I would perhaps use it as a drop cloth for a messy project. Then recycle it!
2. TO keep running and focus on health and wellness.
3. I would send this chair to work with my honey, and it would make him happy, and comfy at work!

1. I’d use it for tap dancing. Because, to borrow a phrase from Warhol: I never wanted to be a writer, I wanted to be a tap dancer.
2. To do what I love. Not what others expect. And, of course, to continue to terrorize the art industry as much as I can.
3. Hopefully it will help undo the stabbing electric shocks I often feel at the base of my neck after 10 hours of diligent typing.

1) I would use the box to build a temporary fort for the cats. Temporary, because they will tear it apart in a few weeks. OR, we could use it for a coffee table! That would probably be better. I need something to write papers on.

2) My New Year’s Resolution for 2009—make artwork that I like and believe in. Create with intention. And pay down my debt.

3) I have back problems. I’m a metalsmith and a student so I tend to sit all day. The Steelcase Leap would improve my life physically and emotionally…and possibly, help me create better jewelry!

1. use the box to make my own cardboard trophy head busts. preferrably try to make a giraffe.
2. my resolution is to have more fun by being less restrictive.
3. Steelcase could help my life because I spend eight hours a day at a desk which has only recently become difficult as my kneeling chair broke and the recession sales still don’t make a new chair affordable. Therefore, due to the crappy economy chair i have as a replacement, my popped rib-head is slowly slipping back out and causing a great deal of back pain which is manifested through my low productivity. Steelcase could help my life because it could help me keep my job.

1. I’d build a fort, but no kids allowed.
2. My resolution is to work less.
3. The Steelcase Leap would be a great upgrade from the lumpy office chair I have now.

1)I would use the box to make a DIY space ship for a spec spot.
2)New Years Resolution -Build out me reel.
3)It would make my life easier-I can stop sitting on that blow up yoga ball all the time to edit/write/budget.

1)I think I’d cut up the box into poster size and create a series of “wanted” posters for some of the various fools in the outgoing administration and distribute them throughout SF.
2)For the new year — I’d like to drop a few small vices and find an interesting job where I can help others. Get back up to speed with Java, PHP, and web-application development.
3) Hopefully this’ll make my time spent in front of the computer more efficient with less distractions coming from my body complaining about the crappy chair I’m in… and that’ll help me carry through on my resolutions and still allow me to spend way too much time reading blogs…

1. I would give the box to the three kids next door.
2. Keep the 24 lbs I lost before christmas off or lose a little more.
3. Use the chair for my wife to sit at the computer so she will be comfortable. (Hint: Not complain how bad the existing chair is)wink/wink.

1. Make a cardboard SUV cause that’s the most “green” SUV you can drive. Actually, when I was a child I really wanted a Chevy Blazer for some strange reason so I took a TV box and turned it into a Chevy Blazer. I had so much fun in that thing.

2. I don’t generally make New Year’s resolutions cause I just end up failing in February. I have an addiction to pretty little blank books/journals and I decided I should start using them, so this year I have vowed (in New Year’s Resolution style) to write one thing that made me smile each day. I also do a little doodle if I’m feeling creative. It helps when you are feeling down to remember that you have something to smile about and no matter what I can find one thing to smile about each day, sometimes more. :)

3. I’ve suffered from back pain since I was 14 or so. Mostly I just grin and bear it cause it’s just how it is. And really, I can keep on doing that and still my life will be awesome. But think just how much more awesome it would be if I spend most of my graphic designer day sitting in an awesome chair that helps relieve the back pain. I rest my case (and I stop being cheesy).

Thanks for the opportunity. :D

1. Recycle the box.
2. Work out more.
3. Won’t know until I sit in it.

You know, if I were to win the Steelcase chair, (1) I’d turn the box into an adventure house for my two cats, who apparently have far too few sources of entertainment here in our city apartment. Their wellbeing is close to my heart and (2) I’ve made a New Years resolution about improving their lot. The cats would love the new chair! It is new. It smells fascinating. It comes in a huge box! I’d love the new chair too, because (3) the furry devils have clawed my old one into chair-zombie… (Chombie? Zombair?)

1)The box would be used as a PORTAL into my cubicle. It would be decorated with various pieces of art (accented by appropriate mood lighting), NOTCOT and STEELCASE publicity plugs, a water fountain, Swingline stapler and would serve as a welcoming station to the inner world where all the Insurance related magic happens.

2)My New Years Resolution is to be the best insurance professional I can be. And to be the best Insurance Professional on my floor. And the best Insurance professional who has a big box serving as a cubicle portal outside his cube.

3)The Steelcase will make me the envy of all New York Insurance Professionals, which in turn will stimulate conversation, and business, affecting the greater good and humanity (not to mention the economy) of New York City in a positive way. As a side bonus, I will be ergonomically and therefore mentally inclined to not take myself too seriously as THE Insurance Professional Extraordinaire.

1. Fill with items to donate to charity
2. Less pork, more lamb
3. No more waking up in the middle of the night with back pain caused by my crappy $150 office chair. I can get more of my ideas accomplished w/less pain.

1. I would build a eco-friendly cave of silence so that I may scream my head off about winning the chair. And then construct the ultimate DIY photo light box. LEAP = green!
2. My main 2009 resolution is a full on assault to reduce my percentage of body fat so that I will look good sitting behind my desk (no belly bulge). Of course, it could be my poor posture in my third generation, hand-me-down office chair. LEAP = sexy!
3. A new LEAP chair will give me proper support and total comfort during my eight hour day. Giving me more energy once I am home to take dancing lessons with my bride. Leading to amoré. And family. And realized dreams. And bliss. LEAD = life!

1) Paint a store-able Dance Fort, and throw a charitable puppet show in it.

2) It might take all of 2009 to do #1.

3) “Lighter Hemorrhoids”/”Lumbar pampering”

1. I think I might live in that box as I am currently unemployed…depressing? I think not because it really is a nice box and I know I could spruce it up with a little paint!
2. My new years resolution is to continue with my design business and kick butt in ‘09.
3. The Steelcase Leap will help my life by making me never want to leave my computer because it so comfortable, thus helping me accomplish my new years resolution!

1. This massive box is perfect for a few of the box enthusiasts in my life. Most entertaining use would be to lay the open box across the room, and from the other end of the room, release my mother’s schizophrenic cat, my brother’s energetic mini dachshund, and my 2 year old neice simultaneously. The resulting pint-sized battle for box time would be worth as much as the chair.

2. My resolution for 2009 fits perfectly with this chair. I MUST complete my home office, and figure out a way to be as productive at home (without employees, customers, and bosses to motivate me).

3. I can only hope that sitting my butt on an $850 chair can somehow improve my work ethic. That IS a feature, is it not?

1. Hide in it and scare the shit out of people.

2. No more soda and more NOTCOT!

3. I wouldn’t be stuck in my chair without wheels that I got from Wal-Mart.

1) I’m thinking the box would be a great way to add a bit of space on to our cramped apartment. Perhaps it would make a great guest room for when the mother in law visits.
2) My New Year’s Resolution is to not freak out about becoming a father.
3) The Steelcase Leap would make my life better by giving my pregnant wife a bit of ergonomic relief while she works on her artwork.

Uno) Since I’m a painter, I’m always looking for storage for paintings. I’d probably end up using the box to hide away and/or ship a few of my larger canvases. (my favorite box for holding small paintings is actually the one my flat-screen monitor came in a couple years ago, haha)

Dos) My ‘New Year Resolution’ revelation came over me over the summer (is that cheating?), I started on it then…I wanted to look and dress better, so I began working out and tuning up my wardrobe. I want to continue that through the new year, and as an addition I want to spend more time with friends - I’m moving away in May so I want to make the most of the time I have left here.

Tres) I would hope that having a chair like that would help stave off my genetic inheritance - both my dad and my grandfather have had severe neck and shoulder issues, necessitating several surgeries and causing chronic pain. I already have the beginnings of it myself…a stylish and supportive chair like this would be an immmense (and handsome!) blessing.

1. i would trap my roomate’s dog in it so she would quit chewing on my ipod.
2. learn to play the piano.
3. i wouldn’t have to sit on my pile of dirty clothes anymore.

1. I would build a fort for the cat to hang out in since she always enjoys boxes.
2. To bike everywhere instead of drive even more than I did last year (that will be hard since I biked just about every where other than for major grocery trips).
3. It will make it so I’m not so sore at the end of the day and help my posture since the back broke on my chair at work and now I have been slumped over my desk so I really, really need to get a new chair.

1) Cardboard makes the cheapest canvas! I would chop it to bits and take it figure drawing with charcoals and white pencils.

2) To strengthen my relationship with and spend even more time with my wife. The end of last year was rough for a variety of reasons and this year gives us both new things to look forward to doing and growing together.

3) I’m only in my 20’s and the back problems I have inherited from my mother have set in. We’re still college students, though, so even though I should be sitting and sleeping on nice, ergonomic beds and chairs, all we can afford is the discount mattress and a 3-year-old Ikea desk chair. To get a chair like that is only a dream at this point in my life.

1. I will use it to hide myself when I’ll play Hide&Seek
2. Become a green engineer!and have a lot of fun and give a lot of love!
3. I’d appear much taller and skinnier on that chair

1) Fill the box with cooked past and then take a nice hot pasta bath.
2) My resolution is to get on with my life and my photography ON ON ON
3) I like sitting in chairs as much as I like riding on bikes, I’m into it REALLY into it.

1. I would kit out my LARPing setup. Triple thick, hand-hewn cardboard chainmail, a great helm, maybe a double-headed cardboard axe if the box is big enough, or maybe I’ll use the scraps as the pointy bits on a mace.

2. Eat sustainably, locally and healthfully, while still thoroughly enjoying every meal. It’s a goal to strive for more than a resolution I’ll fret about breaking.

3. I work from home, my desk chair is a POS and I end up working from bed a lot. FROM BED. Lemme tell you, having one’s work life connected to one’s bed life is miserable. It’s hell on my back, it’s hell on my sex life and it’s makes me feel like a lazy, lazy turd.

Help me!

1. Our cats are always fighting over the boxes that come in; something tells me that this one might just be large enough for the two of them. Might just.

2. Resolution: write. Write like a madman and/or a graduate student (provided there is a difference).

3. Sitting all day? Writing? Hurts your back, it turns out. Hence all those hunchbacked professors.

1. Whoohoo! It is winter where i am, i see a deluxe snow sled in the works!
2. Pay attention.
3. After a rough day of sledding, this chair would feel mighty nice…

1.Storage of my sister in law’s stuff, dumped at our house after the divorce

2.Ride my bike more

3.I need this for the hours I spend in virtual worlds

1. I will keep it as souvenir.
2. Making more music seating comfortable. :)
3. Steelcase Leap will also be my new Bed.

1. i totally need that cardboard to build a new surfboard (#10834)!
2. finally get that portfolio online (and keep it updated)
3. this chair would totally maybe fix my posture and prevent me from dying a cripple

I’d move in to it with the chair.

While I love forts, I doubt the box would be big enough for me, But I would totally use it for composting….I have tons of leaves from my trees that are in just a big pile in the back yard that im trying to compost, but it doesnt have a container so a huge box would be very helpful.

My resolution is to stop procrastinating…and to work out, but I never keep that one so…

I totally need a great office chair…the chair im using now is a very hard straight back wood chair with no soft seat. I cant lean back on it, and its completely uncomfortable. The Stealcase Leap would do wonders for my back problems and since it looks fairly high I wont have to lift my arms to type anymore! Then I can return my hard chair back to where it belongs…the breakfast table!

1) I would of course decorate the box in a tasteful and modern take on the classic camouflage motif, add a few necessary embellishments such as windows and doors, internal staircases and compartments, buttresses, towers and battlements, and place it in a wooded area of my garden to allow birds, small mammals and insects to live together in perfect harmony in stylish modern apartments, a state of nature that has only previous been denied by my cruel and inexplicable lack of a giant cardboard box.

2) My New Year’s Resolution, as for so many other people, is to locate, research and translate the works of Professor Cornelius Ransome on the lost spitting petunias of Ruritania. I will not be deterred in this epic work by the so far complete lack of evidence for the existence of the petunias, Ruritania, or for that matter Prof. Ransome. Should I be thwarted in this noble endeavour, I will settle for the far lesser resolution of getting something, anything, no matter how large or small, published. I will then perform a small happy dance, the composure and choreography of which will of course occupy about 98% of my average working days between now and then.

3) The Steelcase Leap will help my life immeasurably. I will be able to shelter under it in the monsoon season, hide behind it when attacked by ninja gangsters, and stand upon it to converse with the ice giants of the frozen north. I will be able to punt across the plains of the Steppes on its study wheels propelled only by a tightly furled black umbrella, and sledge down the deadly black slopes of the Alps on its ergonomic contours. Its modern and stylish appearance will allow me to persuade any tribes with no previous experience of the western world that I am a God when sat upon it, and yet its appeal will draw crowds from hundreds of miles around –uniting them in a fellowship and camaraderie regardless of race, creed and nationality that will bring about an end to war. Should these activities tire me, I will also be able to relax into its comfy seat, and unwind by answering internet competitions.

1) Draw skull and crossbones on it and use it for a pirate lair.

2) Make it to 2010 at all costs.

3) It would make my butt happy.

1. breakdance after a few drinks. because I typically breakdance after a few drinks.

2. work for the “man” less. work for me more.

3. years in retail and then years of office work have killed my back. hopefully this will help soothe it back to health.

1. What would you do with the massive box?
- I would hide in it and jump out when my boss comes around the corner to scare the bejesus out of him. :)

2. My ‘09 Resolution is indulge friendships

3. Steelcase will help my life, b/c I will a)look cooler, b) feel better, c)enjoy work more (if that’s possible, I have the best job ever…I can actually jump out of boxes to scare my boss :)

1. turn it into a big grass sleigh to slide down a hill in OR I’d pack myself up in it and ship myself to Japan for a holiday
2. mountain bike and play ultimate frisbee more
3. well if I get a free one it will save me about $800 and I can use that money I would have spent toward a great weekend with my family in Washington DC and the Smithsonian

1. As a kid, I used markers to draw elaborate spaceship cockpits on the inside of my boxes. Then, when the lid was closed, a small flashlight in the darkness suspened my visual senses for a truly escapist voyage into space. Even now I still fight with accepting adult life but, if it should prevail this time, I’d make a four-panel, configurable, and wrap-around reflector for photographing people. Matte or semi-gloss white spray paint would make it perfect.

2. I don’t get very excited about a new number on the calendar. A day is a day just like the day before it and the one after it. We still have to reap this year what we sowed the last. That being said, I resolve to sow better seeds. I want to learn to play the piano. I want to train in aikido and move to a new state. I want to sow knowledge.

3. I make a living as a photographer and consequently can usually be found buried under Photoshop filters and camera files. At 6 feet 5 inches tall, my posture is both important to me and yet a battle to maintain; I have to consciously straighten up every time I snap out of focus and find myself slouching. From what I’ve read of the Leap line, it would help me greatly by encouraging me to cultivate good posture and thereby prolonging my ability to edit photographs long into the night.

1) Like anybody would do with a big box, fill it with money. (I totally would)

2) I don’t believe in resolutions, If I were weak I guess I would need to hopelessly embrace an empty promise made drunkenly at the start of a new year. When I treat everyday like New Years Day, drunkenly.

3) I currently have a broken one that I sit on 99.9% of the time. I eat from it, watch TV from it and surf the internet on.

1. I would use the massive box as an enormous, temporary cat furniture/lair. Because most of the cat furniture on the market is unfortunately unattractive and the attractive furniture is way out of my price range (thank you economic recession) temporary cardboard joy is the best i can offer my little monsters. The best part is after they turn 50% of into abstract art all over the floor, i can use the rest of the box to take out my paper recyclables-making it an ultra-recyclable.
2. My resolution for 2009 is to actually go to my gym ( i know so cliche) and to consume little to nothing i dont absolutely need, and to have better posture.
3. I want this chair because my boyfriend spent a bunch of money getting his dad an aeron because his dad works so hard at his computer-my boyfriend on the other hand makes do with a junky old chair from his parents basement as his computer chair in our apartment. He’s in law school now and he works so hard at his computer all day, i’d love him to have this chair, plus, I can’t lie, I’d enjoy it too.

1. Hang it on a wall and make a psuedo-cork board for my room

2. Start my own business, so I can actually get paid for traveling the world and making docs for non-profits and NGOs, instead of just going into more debt each time do a project

3. I do a lot of editing. So I do a lot of sitting. This chair would save my back.

1) video camera + aluminum foil + giant box = new sci-fi sensation alien robots attack logan square!
2) enter more contests
3) it wouldn’t change my life, it would become my life

1. Construct a very huge hat
2. Cook more
3. blog about cooking more in my new steelcase chair.

1-Fill it up and give it away.
2-None. if it’s important, it’s worth putting into practice right away
3-Relief of body and leg ache. I am in front of a flat screen most of the day.

1. fill it w/ stuff i no longer use and donate to charity.

2. buy a desk for the apt.

3. No longer have to sit on my folding chair when to work so i’ll have better posture, better health, better life!!!

I would def. fill the box up with as much food and donations I could get and send it to a family in Haiti, Cuba or any other country that has been hit by hurricanes or are in need.

My New Years resolution would be to get in shape, Make more money and try to conserve the environment by recycling more and stop buying bottled water. My daughter needs me to do this for her future.

The chair would help me design with more comfort at home. Hopefully the better posture will help my ideas flow

1. i’d use two sides to cut into bookboard to make mock-ups of the children’s books that i’m working on. i’d use the other two sides to make into many smaller boxes to send the books to beloved friends with children.

2. i resolve to always be a voice for compassion and love.

3. i’m a student in a design program and i’m tucked into a tiny corner of a house full of other students, curled up over my work for hours on end. this chair would be my magic chair, comfortable and inspiring (it truly is a work of fantastic design), and it would help me travel to new and amazing places with my work. i would share it with other students when i’m not sitting in it, and the chair love would multiply and be even more magic and creative, and that would be great.

1. Taking full advantage of the Post-Holiday sales, I could definitely reuse the box for storage, or I might reassemble the box into a fabulous dog house for my Boxer, seems only fitting.

2. My New Years Resolution was to get my website up and running for my Graphic Design business, it’s January 6th, and I am about a week out.

3. I work from a home office, and find myself moving from my VERY uncomfortable office chair, to the couch to the bed, to the kitchen table and so on and so forth. I’d love to have a chair like this and actually work in my office…and stay in my office.

1. Put my old, much less comfortable chair inside it, put a bow on the box, and donate it.
2. Get a new job.
3. Comfort & peace of mind/body during the stressful process of tweaking that resume…

1. I would store away clutter into the basement.
2. To relax more and live a healthier lifestyle.
3. It will improve my posture.

1) Flatten and recycle!
2) I don’t make resolutions (oh well).
3) I have a bad neck that gets tense and gives me headaches all the time, and do a fair amount of work at my computer, so this could probably help with that.

1: Put it on the sidewalk; hide in it; jump out and scare pedestrians/drivers stopped at a stoplight.

2: Read and learn for the sake of reading and learning more; continue to write creatively.

3: It will give me a new joy and sense of purpose in life. Also, I’m headed to college in the fall, and I could use a sweet chair for my dorm room.

1. I would build a tiny replica chair and give it to hamster Mr. Jedediah.
2. Find someone to re-engineer the mold cells on my old chinese take-out to form the shape of a microscopic version of the last supper.
3. I stack small stones on my floor and sit among them. Just joking, my chair is really old and the previous owner had, done only what I can imagine, was fart a whole into the upholstery.

1. Put myself inside, have a friend package me up. Seal it (with breathing holes, of course). Mail myself to my girlfriend (whose parents don’t allow guys inside the house), and pop up in her room as a nice present. (I still haven’t figured out how I’d get out of the house though…)

2. My resolution comes in several parts
a. Get into an ivy league college…waiting until march! Wish me luck!
b. Learn how to take fantastic pictures with my new canon rebel xsi
c. Get a membership at the local gym and get jacked.
d. Something that’s not appropriate for everyone to see on notcot.
e. Learn hip hop dancing over the summer.
f. Join the college frisbee team and become awesome at it.

3. I will definitely need a chair for college, and I figure sitting for hours at end at my tiny dorm room desk, either studying, designing (which I hope to make my major - industrial, specifically), or reading… but mostly for hours and hours of studying college textbooks. If it’s really that productive as they say, I hope it will be productive in not letting me flunk out of the ivy league college I expect to go to!

01. I would use the box for my own little hideaway…Until we move later this year. Then I’ll pack things in it.

02. My New Years Resolution is to become more financially stable and become a better designer and mountain biker. I’d also like to ride the Tour de Cure.

03. I think this chair will help me to sit down and get busy with my freelancing. Not to mention help my butt with the long sitting time required for those intense designs.

1. giant robot & sasquatch
2. job, job, job.
3. no more pinched nerves in my neck means i can actually turn around when people call me and not make them thing i’m ignoring them. it also means that when i go to bed, i don’t have to take 5 minutes just to lie down.

1. I don’t have any kids, but I would still build an awesome fort and lay siege to my roommates.
2. Resolve to clamp down on my procrastination (but not on the amount of time I spend reading NOTCOT!)
3. Constantly leaning forward to work on tiny little models and leaning back to work on my computer completely wrecks my back. I have a feeling this chair would be able to help me out.

1) Use it for camouflage when moving around in a warehouse.
2) 1920 x 1080
3) Substantially reduce the costs of going to massage and chiropractors.

1. Give it to my cat, he loves boxes. Just going to add it to his box playplace

2. Get Debt Free and run my life at my highest budget surplus in 10 years

3. It would change my life tremendously as I now sit on a couple of milk crates and my back is sore.

paint a life sized tree house on it, then read in it.

1. This box would practically be the treasure in and of itself! Once I’ve built it into an eco-friendly fort with my cats, I’d use my laser vision to cut it into two half-size open ended boxes. Wow! Two boxes! One half I can fill up with goodies in my closet to take over and over to Goodwill or the Salvation Army. The other half I can use as a soapbox, an oversized hat, a giant bento box for serving and/or transporting food in, a yarn storage box, an indoor birdhouse, or I could even flatten it out to keep any drips from my car from getting into unwanted areas.

2. New Years resolution for 2009? To make this year the most interesting year possible. I can do this by acting out of character, by taking on new experiences and challenges, by meeting people and helping them where I can, by facing fears and embarking on new projects, adventures, making mischief! There are SO many ways to accomplish this. So I know I’m in for a treat.

3. The Steelcase Leap will not only benefit me, it will benefit others as well. By having the opportunity to have a proper desk chair, I will no longer spend 12 hours of my day working while slowly mutilating my back into an unrecognizable old-lady hunchback. No! I will be practicing good posture, working more comfortably, and therefor with a better disposition and a more productive attitude. Suddenly I’ll be a happier person. Those around me will be happier too, because happiness is contagious. I’ll tell more jokes, everyone will laugh. They’ll really like me! We’ll have such a great time that soon we’ll band together and form some sort of organization to save the world. Yeah, Save the world! That’s right. I’ve got it all planned out.
So, it’s not just that I need this chair. It’s that the world needs saving. You can’t afford to take a risk like that, right? If the world can be saved, then who are you to stand in the way of that?

1. Use the big box to create a piece of deconstruct sculpture, or if the box is really big, then create a deconstruct piece of furniture

2. Resolution for 2009 is to not worry about what is going to happen - just let things happen and live life - be creative… (“..introduce a bit of chaos…”) :)

3. To crate great design - it helps to be surrounded by great design. It will be a gigantic improvement on the chair it would potentially replace - a certain boost of morale and enthusiasm!!!

Thanks :)

1) Use it as an Imaginary Unicorn Corral.
2)See that Starcraft II is released on time.
3)I spend the majority of my day in a blasted chair and it would assist in preventing me from turning into a Mole Man and at the very least make everyone around me dangerously jealous.

1. World peace.
2. My new years resolution for 09, start a successful business.
3. I have a terrible chair now, that gives me a back ache just looking at it. This would help when in those all night design fests.

1. Fashion it into a robot costume and wear it to a renaissance fair.

2. Become ordained and officiate 12 state recognized weddings (already well on my way).

3. My apartment is set up in such a way that it’s easy to skateboard inside; why not take the chair for a spin (oh, and I guess it would be comfy).

1. It would become a piece of furniture with a little origami and some glue…
2. To be more successful than the last.
3. It would help my life physically and mentally to not worry so much about sitting all day.

1) Invent a new sport: box rolling. Find a hill, get in the box, and ROLL!! Rules are: “Hit a rock, go to the hospital!”
2) Stress less!!
3) I don’t even use my work chair anymore… parts keep falling from it but I don’t know from where! It’s mysterious, and kind of makes me feel like it’ll break while I sit on it…

1) I would take the box with me to a box social. I would be the envy of all of the other gentlemen accompanied by lesser boxes. I’m sure some would make derogatory comments about the size of my manhood due to the box I am with, but it would be mainly jealousy.
2) My resolution is to say yes less. Like the film the yes man but with less yesses. When someone asks me to spend a few minutes filling in a questionnaire I will just look at them in a puzzled bewilderment.
3) I think my life would be pretty much the same but I would be more comfortable in a seated position. Can I discuss how it would improve my life if I was blind and the chair was a guide dog? If so then it would totally change my life and I would be able to walk about more and go into shops with a dog. However if I already had a guide dog, it may be a touch difficult taking two guide dogs and they may begin to resent each other if I was to walk one more than the other, or they may just do it.

1.) I have a bunch of clothes that I haven’t worn in a long while. A big box would be a good opportunity to fill it up with clothes to bring to a Goodwill/Salvation Army/etc. This would be especially useful with winter in full swing.

2.) My main resolution for this year is to grow up, get a job, and move out. I am student teaching this semester as well as job searching for a teaching position in the fall.

3.) With all the hard work I have ahead of me for the year, it would be nice to have a comfortable chair to ease one stress in my life. This chair will certainly help those long nights of lesson planning, application filling, and so on.

1. Burn the massive box.
2. Burn the massive box.
3. Burn the massive box.

1. The box would become the Starship Scardias Athame! With which I would spread the flag of my great empire!

2. 2009 Resolution: To make good on a new life and to renew my vow for the Year of the Flood.

3. I know the chair would be of benefit during those long sessions in Lightroom or Photoshop.

1) I just donated 7 bags of stuff to the Salvation Army, and the box could probably be equivalent to at least 5 bags.

2) Finish that novel I always wanted to write.

3) The chair will make it easier to finish the novel :)

1. I would totally use it for a Halloween costume next year. (cut a hole for my head in the center, and cut a hole in an old tablecloth, stick some bowls, plates, fruit on it and be a table!

2. to be happy, healthy, and productive.

3. well first of all, i would have a chair that is leveled…. my current chair tilts to the right a bit so i’m always sitting slanted which… gets pretty uncomfortable after a while

1. Just purchased my first home. Need boxes for moving. (Think I can get all my books in that one box?)
2. To run a Marathon.
3. I am built for comfort, not speed. I need to relax some how.

1. I would cut the box into as many 8”x8” square canvasses as I could and create an entire art series based on my life in this chair.
2. Get a new damn chair…damnit!
3. Well the chair looks pretty friendly, maybe even a bit sophisticated. Lord knows I need more sophistication in my life. But mainly as an artist/designer, one good chair is all I need…oh my poor back needs it too…and my neck…and my bum.

Wanna see some art? http://www.crylic.blogspot.com

1. One can always use more boxen for storage (especially if they’re free!)
2. I don’t have one — maybe that’s where I’ve been going wrong all these years.
3. I’ve been looking for a new (more so) ergomomic chair for use at University (my back is not in the best shape), and the Steelcase Leap would be at the top of my list if the budget allowed. Since I spend most of my time sitting, the Leap will definitely help me sit better. :)

1. I don’t have kids so I’d probably just built a fort for myself.
2. My New Years Resolution is the get back in school and do something with my life.
3. The Chair will improve my posture. I’ve been feeling particularly Quasimodo-ish lately.

1) Obviously, I will unfold the box, cover it with tinfoil, and shape it into a large satellite dish so I can receive free DirecTV! (I really will do this if you send me the chair, AND I’ll take pictures of it and of me placing it on the roof of our building for your website. We live in a historical textile museum in new england, so it would be great exposure for everyone. And very entertaining for your readers, I’m sure.)

2) Resolutions: As sappy as it sounds, I ordered a St Francis cross that I wear hidden every day as a reminder to say something kind to someone or do a good deed every day. After completing the deed, I pull it out from under my shirt and let the world see it for the rest of the day. Also I plan on getting back to doing yoga every day, and to start contributing to NOTCOT more often as it’s a huge source of inspiration to me. Finally, I want to remember every day that I am in charge of creating my own reality, and take a more pro-active role in how my life unfolds.

3) This chair would really help my business. I work from home now, and have been sitting on a plastic $6 IKEA stool for the past 2 months. Move to the couch, you say? We gave our couch to a girls’ youth group before a recent move and haven’t been able to afford a new one yet. We gave our last Steelcase desk chair (different model) to a neighbor who was starting a home-based business in Florida. My wife also works from home (her online store is nspire.etsy.com) and she is also utilizing the plastic IKEA stool. Our tailbones are not very happy, but we’re glad we gave what we could to others who needed it more at the time. If I receive this chair, it will allow me to work more efficiently, and my wife and I will share it, so you’ll be getting double the pleasure that you’d normally get from giving it to one person! Thank you in advance for arranging such a perfectly timed giveaway! You are a saint. Best of luck and blessings in 2009.

1. I’m gonna get two more boxes and build a three level cardboard home and drop it in a back alley of the Tenderloin for some lucky crack head to stumble onto and claim as his brand new crack palace.
2. To find the artist in myself that somehow I don’t think really exists.
3. Increase productivity! Co’mon now, with that 17.8% increase it should pump me up to a solid 20% productivity level!!! This is what I need to throw me over the top.

I will park my old and leaky forklift on it so that it can suck up and soak in hydraulic fluid. Doing so will greatly increase it’s life span. And when it has reached a fully saturated state, it will go in the dumpster to be transported to the landfill where it can slowly decompose while leeching hydro chemicals into the ground water.

1) I’d get in it, rip out the bottom and ride….flintstones style. depending on the massiveness of this box i would then invite people to join me on my journey, sing songs and have an altogether merry ol’ time

2) In 2009 i’m going to catch the attention of the creative world with my fresh ideas, quirky style and gleaming smile

3) My current chair is lacking a back, not due to any clever new design, but due to it falling off. I wouldn’t mind, but spinning on it just isn’t as fun as I consider it would be in a brand new steelcase leap, back support is a must.

I really don’t know about these comment contest things. Like what exactly are we supposed to say to get this chair? I’m sure everyone here sat back in his/her cheap ass seat and thought to themselves “I bet if I come up with a really great response I could actually win this thing”.
Well I’ve done that before but I’m not going to get tricked into it again. Sure I want this chair just as much as the next guy but I’m none the wiser from the last times I’ve left comments, and I still don’t have a great vinyl toy collection or a shiny new vibrator so my response is purely out of habit for entering contest and looking at notcot to much. so..
1) I would honestly just cut up the box and set it out on the curb to be recycled on Monday or the next Monday depending on if it’s blue bag or paper next, I never can remember which. If you want to make a fort with it or a fun space ship, fine, I’ll save it for you and you can come get it. Just get it before Monday.
2)I’m the kind of person to be realistic (so why am I entering this thing again?) so I made a simple resolution this year. I told myself to pet the family dog when it walks by. She walked by, I reached out and pet it a few times, done. I moved on with my day full of success. Life’s too short.
3)I know some people who have been designers at Steelcase and as I am a designer myself I think they might appreciate me a bit more for having such a fine item in my apartment. Who knows it might even get me laid, then again maybe not but at least I will have a new line at the clubs. “Hey Baby, want to come back to my place and have a well supported make out session, I’ll let you set the tension?!”
Something like that. So until next time, have a great day.

1. build a city of boxes together with the other boxes i have (not that many tho so i guess it will be a small city.
2. to get rid of my stained, stinky computer chair once and for all. or donate it to someone?
3. since it’s new, i would take care of it properly now and wouldn’t use it too often, therefore i would spend less time in front of the computer and more time outside. Then, i will have a life, i guess.

1. I’d use it to hold other corrugated cardboard until I could take it to the recycler.
2. To give up resolutions.
3. It would make me happy and thus I would stop feeding kitties to puppies.

1. I would live in it.
2. Not to kill myself this year either.
3. I could allways tease the guy opposite me in the other(smaller) box with a luxurious Steelcase Leap.

1) would definitely use it for storage - the higher ups approved an office remodeling of sorts where i work (which should bring my current dungeon office into a semi acceptable state hopefully)..

2) i don’t exactly believe in new year’s resolutions, but i do believe in resolutions…and therefore, in 2009, i would like to learn and understand the stock market a little better…great time right?

3) the steelcase chair would help my life tremendously, because my current desk chair is a junky vinyl walmart special that is like 2 years past its life cycle…

1) I would have to use the box for a number of things, shims, models, a folio, patterns for cobbling, or patterns for metal mobiles, painless throwing stars etc.

2) My resolution is too learn more about masonry, which I have started by everyday staring at a church up the street designed by Ralph Adams Cram and plans for a wood-fired oven/smokehouse/grill

3) The chair would be nice for comfort at my computer, instead of this old bent plywood chair. In addition to that Steelcase would not even need to ship it, I could come pick it up since I live in GR.

1) I usually use all of the big boxes my wife and I use to hold all of our recycling. After it’s worn out or we find a newer one, we’ll make sure it gets recycled.

2) I resolve to find a few more ways that we (my wife and I) can save money from our existing budget and/or find a few more things from our apartment that we can either donate or sell locally. We’re five months married and doggedly working to conquer our school debt. Every little bit counts!

3) I do flash programming for about 7-10 hours a day so I’ll most definitely use the chair to help me stay relaxed and in good posture while I make engaging sites, applications, and games for all to enjoy. I also could use the help during late nights while I finish my portfolio class and graduate!

(1) I was going to think of a goofy answer to this question, but sadly I actually could use this box. I would cut it up and cover the pieces in foil to make radiator reflectors. (My apartment is cold).
(2) I have resolved to be nicer to my boyfriend (of two years)…
(3) By giving him a new chair.

1) Keep it. You never know when it can come handy!
2) Be a better listener. I want to actually *HEAR* what others have to say.
3) Give the chair to my boyfriend. He’s rather heavy so any normal chair won’t do. Plus he is a graphic designer so he is always working at the computer (sitting a lot). I want him to be comfortable :)

1. I would use the box as floor covering when I paint and do my crazy projects around the house. I love big pieces of cardboard!
2. My new years resolution is to make healthier choices. So far I’ve been bringing my lunch to work with me, snacking on more veggies and dusting off the Wii Fit!
3. I have been trying to get my employer to get me this chair for 5 months! My dad installs office furniture and was impressed when I told him what chair it was. I want the Leap so badly!!!!! It has so many features to completely customize the chair for your body and your workspace. I love love love it!!! My back pain could disappear and I could make it through a work day without a headache. Ahhhh… work might actually be enjoyable.

[1] I would waterproof the box and make it into a steelcase-sled, call up some friends, and take it to a big hill to go sledding together in it!

[2] My new year’s resolution is to be less of a “kitchen nazi” as my friends call me when I start getting ocd about how they are cooking in the kitchen (not just my own, their kitchen as well — I know, shoot me).

[3] This chair would help my dad since I would give it him to use - I’m worried that the teetery old office chair he currently sits in is about to tilt to its death any day now…

What a great give-away, thankyou!

1: I would use the box as a giant canvas (or canvases)
2: My resolution this year is to pay off the last of my student loans (almost there!)
3: This chair will improve my life by helping facilitate my resolve to sell my paintings and crafts online - I hate sitting on our current chair as it hurts your back after 10 minutes so we don’t use the computer much. With this chair I would have no excuse.

1. Recycle the box.
2. To get straight A’s, apply to Royal College of the Arts, and get in.
3. This chair would help my back while studying, which would help me study better, which in turns would lead to better grades, a better chance at getting into RCA and make me eternally happy.

:)

1) I would use the box to store smaller boxes. Those smaller boxes containing smaller boxes of their own. So on and so forth until a paradox is created. At the center of that paradox, three Canadian dollars. We call them Loonies.

2) Not to break any new years resolutions…

3) Well, my girlfriend and I just purchased a Mac, we don’t have a chair for the desk we’ll be using. At the moment we’re using an odd reverse joint Ikea chair that sits amazingly low. I imagine this chair would better our lives through proper posture when our new purchase arrives.

1. I would use it as a 3d canvas and paint a big mural all over it.

2. My New Years resolution is to tell my close friends and family I love them more. Not in a lovey-dovey sort of way but a real heartfelt way. I want to make them feel special and loved. I want them to know how much they mean to me. It’s hard for me to say, slightly embarrassing but I believe it will make a big difference in both of our lives! It’s also exciting to see the difference it could make.

3. I have been battling anxiety for the last 2 years and since been not able to work consistently. I am being supported by my family but I only afford the basics. In my recovery trying to work, be creative and hopefully make a living at home has wrecked my back and posture as my workspace is certainly not ergonomic. The Leap chair will help alleviate physical stressors that impact greatly on anxiety and hopefully restore my back into some sort of stability improving my wellbeing.

one - make a giant scratching post for my cat so he stops scratching the sofa
two - improve my mandarin so i can order food in chinatown without shame
three - my desk chair is a crappy IKEA folding chair, ‘nuff said.

1. put it out with the recycling
2. get in better shape
3. back support

1. I’ve been working through a lot of furniture designs lately, so I would use the box to prototype cardboard furniture designs!

2. My New Years Resolution is to start freelancing in graphic design this year. I design in multiple fields, and I have experience in graphic design, so I’ve been itching to do some freelance graphic design work. The good news is, I’m actually following through. Right now I’m doing the legwork and setting up the legal foundation, so soon I can get to the actual meat of the project.

3. Right now, I’m just working in a cheap office chair. The Steelcase Leap would definitely give me the support I need as I spend the long hours in front of my computer working on designs.

1. I’d use the box to sleep in as my house foundation is sinking and the northern wall of my house is falling off.

2. My New Years Resolution is to learn survival skills to prepare for my new life as a homeless person.

3. The new chair will allow me to panhandle in awesome comfort and style.

1) I’d build a mega Domokun out of the cardboard box. Then I will have a new best friend
2) New Year’s resolution is to be more green, drink more wine and laugh more often.
3) Steelcase Leap would improve my life because I think I spend 80% of my waking life in a chair. At work it’s in an Ikea chair and at home - it’s in an Ikea chair (a crappy one at that) with no support of any kind. It just looks cool (see: SKRUVSTA swivel chair) at the sacrifice of my body. If this chair is as good as you say, I want to be able to say that it has changed my life for the better. My body will thank you (not in the dirty way in the I’ll live longer kind of way).

1. I have three cats who just LOVE boxes. It would be fun to work on it to make some kind of box-of-boxes with doors and platforms and so on, all cut/folded from the box itself. Failing that, leaving it in the floor on its side for several weeks while they run around in it would probably do.

2. My New Year’s Resolution is to be productive every day, doing everything I can to make my new work situation work out for everyone (see next item).

3. I’ve just started a job where I get to work from home much of the time in lieu of commuting 3 hours each way or spending several nights a week away from husband and pets. It’s a desk job, and at the moment I have a $25 plastic desk chair which is fairly comfortable for five minutes at a time but is going to be an issue after three hours, three weeks, three months. Having the Steelcase LEAP chair (the latest in a long line of awesome Steelcase business furniture that pays attention to utility and design both) will make a huge difference in how I work at home, and will probably contribute greatly to the success of my working at home, meaning that I’ll be able to keep working at home and that I will get to be at home with my family/I won’t get carpal tunnel or strained back/we won’t have to move to the big nasty city 3 hours away. The Steelcase LEAP would probably save everything, in other words, and even with the wonderful new work-at-home job, good new office furniture is not in the recession-hit budget (can’t sell our house in New Orleans so have two mortgages, husband’s job pays very little while he tries to rescue his little company, etc.) In other words, oooh, oooh, pick me, I’d love it and appreciate it on many levels and be ever so grateful!

1) Build a desk for this chair-because what goes better with an incredibly expensive chair than a cheap recyclable desk.
2) To eat less cabbage so i don’t fart in my new chair.
3) After the closing of a major animation studio in N.Y., I found myself spending many hours doing freelance at home. And with many hours come many back aches. The Steelcase chair will not only help my back but it will help my relationship, because I wont have to ask my girlfriend for back rubs anymore.

1. i would break down the box to make little boxes and then arrange the little boxes to make one big box.

2. my new years resolution(s) are to keep improving my thought process.. improve my idea generation.. be more observant.. and to make a giant box out of little boxes.

3. the steelcase leap will help me rest my back after the many hours i will use to break down the box and create the many smaller boxes which will be arranged again to make a giant box.

Thanks! (:

1) massive box = DIY furniture
2) not go into a buying frenzy at target
3) the life of a medical student means:
—your social life dwindles
—you become really good at coming up with mnemonics
—you end up spending countless hours sitting in the same non-ergonomic chair that’s generating constant back/neck pain
—and on top of that, you have to memorize a dictionary’s worth of info on a weekly basis. booo

1. The box would become a place for my cat, Panties, to play.
2. My resolution is to get a comfortable chair.
3. I’m 21 but i have the back of a 90 year old fish monger.

Cut it flat, paint a mural, and hang it in my apartment. I’ve been needing some wall decor.

1) Live in it. SIMPLIFY, SIMPLIFY, SIMPLIFY.
2) My resolution is to find a way to work more carabiners into my life
3) How would the Stealcase Leap help my life? Owning the Steelcase Leap would distinguish me as a man of elegance and class. Women would be drawn to me, men would envy me. I would be the talk of the town. ‘Small town boy, does good, they’d write. The new self esteem would catapult me into the realm of great achievers and all would be well again in my little corner of the world… or cubicle as the case may be.

1. I would say a fort because my parents always got mad when I tried to make one at home out of blankets and chairs when I was little.

2. I’m going to finish all of my general education and film classes so I can *hopefully* transfer successfully into a good film program at a 4-year-university! Woo!

3. Hm. My brother stole my big cushy leather chair from my workspace and took it down to LA for college so I am currently seat-less. This would be a nice [“ha ha sucks for you, dummy”] replacement.

1-Use it as a table until the next drawing.

2-I will sit down more often in the office.

3-It will allow me to donate my current chair to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

1. I would recycle it. Can’t just leave it laying around.
2. Launch my eco-friendly t-shirt brand and get the word out.
3. It will allow me to do all my designing and computer work in comfort and style.

1. I have a 6 y/o boy who would love to add it to the homebuilt mechanized red flyer wagon “tank” as it’s new outer shell. It would make for an excellent source of protection in the weekend Nerf wars.

2. Actually take vacation from work since the Use-It-Or-Lose-It policy doesn’t pat me on the back and hand me a bonus for all of my hard work.

3. I am hoping the addition of a Steelcase chair would help me begin the slow process of reversing the hunchback look I’ve been sporting since I got my stylish IKEA chair for a whopping $15.

1. Fill it with playpen balls and give it to a child. Or maybe keep it for myself. Everyone needs more playpen balls.
2. I resolve to let myself be less than perfect… even if it means not completely following through on resolutions… (Paradox?)
3. I spend so much time in front of my computer, it’s ridiculous. This chair will soothe my aching muscles, improve my quality of life, make me smell better, and help me find true love.

1. I’d sit on the box.
2. Stop giving a fuck.
3. I’d sell it and make money to stimulate the my economy.

1. I would turn the box into a coffin for my old chair and bury it.

2. For 2009 I’d like to have some of my graphic design work in publications and work on some free-lance projects while in school.

3. The Steelcase Leap would help me be more comfortable, allowing me to work longer at my computer, thus putting out more projects, therefore making profit. So: Steelcase Leap = money in pocket. Sounds good to me

1) I would chop up the box and use the pieces as fuel for my Mr. Fusion device attached my 1981 DeLorean Time Machine.
2) My 2009 resolution is to “Time Travel” less.
3) The chair will help me stay in one time period for hours on end :)

1) Recycle the box
2) Become a more productive person
3) Give me something to sit on other than an exercise ball.

1. For models or backing artwork - really need large scale boards. It’s probably worth $10 min.
2. Talk less, analyze less.
3. To suffer less while designing, and, if in orange (or red?), be happier (while approaching the chair from behind.)

1) Burn the box at our bonfire
2) Get a better job in my industry
3) The Steelcase Leap will improve my life by better supporting my when I spend hours of the day sitting in it working on my CG work.

I’d use the box to make a time machine … either that or a transmogrifier a la Calvin and Hobbes.

My resolution is to write every day, so having a comfortable chair would help! (Not that I don’t love my big red ball.)

If I had a Steelcase Leap, I could turn my big red ball back into an exercise ball (not that I’d necessarily exercise…)

1) Gotta go with the fort. Deck it out with some blankets and a popsicle
catapult and I will be set for an assault on my greatest enemies…the
squirrels.
2) My New Year’s resolution is to grow closer to my girlfriend.
3) This chair would help my life greatly because I have yet to find a
comfortable computer chair to aid me in my epic quest to graduate with a
degree in aerospace engineering.

1. I have been known to “create” furniture out of beer boxes to suit the needs of my apartment, so this would definitely be a step in a new direction. I’m thinking of some sort of bookcase/trunk for my magazines.

2. My resolution for the coming year is for this to be my last year of waiting tables and for the first of my animated shorts to be completed. Last year I quit my job and moved across the country to pursue a dream, now I’m back in school and work full time to make it all happen.

3. I’m crooked. Literally. I do have scoliocis, so having a great chair would be HUGE!. But for the past 10 years I have sat on my current chair, which isn’t really a chair but a round piece of wood screwed to four steel legs. Some people call it a stool. With the Steelcase Leap in my life I can continue my work in comfort and style. And in the near future as I look to set up my own studio, having this most integral component would mean so much. Repeat: HUGE!!!

1.) The box would be transformed into a fantastic castle (catstle?) for my 2 feline companions to enjoy. They already have a cardboard fetish, using every delivery box large or small for hiding and playing. I’ll transform this massive box into a multi-level cat house with windows, turrets and ramps for their amusement.

2.)My New Year’s Resolution is to eliminate refined sugars and carbohydrates from my diet, focusing on fresh produce and whole grains while foregoing almost all processed food. So far, its going great and I’m discovering a world of new recipes to keep things exciting.

3.) I will use this chair to help change terrible habits I formed years ago in college! At my desk, I’ve always slouched to one side with a leg tucked underneath, my arm resting on the peninsula table. Since I spend many hours every day in this position for both work and leisure, last year brought me both a 40th birthday milestone and some physical aches and pains related to this terrible posture. Of course I’m making myself sit upright when I catch myself leaning over or tucking a foot under my legs, but its not easy in an old chair that knows my bad habits well! I’d absolutely love the opportunity to start anew with such a well-designed chair.

1) What would you do with the massive box - My kids and I would likely break it down to flat and use it to make a town. Wooden block bulldings and cars, toy animals and crayon and marker drawing. Big fun on a rain day. 2) What is your New Year’s Resolution? Really, how much time do you have? I’ve got all the usual about losing weight and exercising and all that but my biggie is to build my blog and hopefully generate some money from it. 3) How will the Steelcase Leap improve your life? I’m sure I’m messing up my bod with all kinds of bad ergonomics working on the blog. But it’s about cancer and important information so the chair could save my posture and help people learn more about cancer. What more could you ask.

Box: I would use it to make my husband’s Halloween costume this year (he’s gonna be a life sized Lego figure)

Resolution: To be more organized.

Chair: I am currently using a large bouncy-ball as a chair … enough said.

1. Give it to my neighbor’s kids; they’ll build a fort, for sure.

2. Cherish the time with my loved ones (one of whom has just been diagnosed with breast cancer).

3. Allow me to be more productive in my home office, from which I telecommute for a Silicon Valley employer, thereby improving my job security in these troubled economic times.

1. I would make the box impermeable to wet stuff and use it as the basis for a simple shelter for someone in my city, where it is now legal for homeless people to camp out in parks.

2. My resolution for this year is to increase the resolution of my life. By that I mean that I want to go from my current 15KB jpeg life to one that is livelier, richer, and more meaningful to myself and everyone around me. I’m going for a 10MB tif.

3. I have creative training but a template-based job. And this chair, while simultaneously acknowledging that I have a lumbar spine, unlike my current chair “Slouchy”, would allow me to build a better workspace at home that I can be proud of that will help motivate me to strengthen my portfolio and get the creative job I know I’m capable of having.

1. Fill with Items to donate to charity for sure, I’ve got tons of clothes in boxes already. Why not consolidate into one huge one.

2. Be more organized. Pretty simple.

3. Comfort is always nice. My current computer chair pretty much attracts dog hair. Also it is somewhat broken, if you lean to the left you fall to the floor.

1) Draw up something beautiful with my many, many sharpies. Theres always something quite inspiring about a huge canvas like big boxes.

2) Overall better myself, no more soda, no more cussing, loose that last few lbs, continue to better my art, decide which language I want to learn.

3)I live in my desk chair that I have now. I sit down in it when I get home, take my shoes off, put my stuff in my bag away, snuggle my puppy. I sit in it to do art, which eventually Ill become a Tattoo artist (my life goal) I sit in it to do homework, work I took home from work, personal accounting, and talking to my family thousands of miles away in Oregon. The poor thing’s arm is hanging on by duct tape, the back is from an entirely other chair, and I have a towel draped across its seat for both visual aesthetics and comfort. A new chair would be heavenly.

1. I’d build a giant cat castle for my two cats. I have a number of left over boxes from Christmas, so all in all, I’d be able to build a pretty awesome play space for them.

2. Really, just to eat more veggies, and to continue to promote my art.

3. I’d give the chair to my husband. I could picture many pleasant hours spent together, both on our computers, but now he’d have a wonderful ergonomic chair instead of one held together with duct tape.

Although the box could create an extra room in my tiny studio (like a lean-to), I would prefer to use it to create picture foregrounds with my niece and nephew. We’d cut out holes for faces and decorate the front before climbing inside. Could make for an unusual theatrical piece.

This year I’m bringing the high-brow into my life on the cheap—homemade food out of the Alinea cookbook, self-made knock-offs of designer handbags and lamps.

This chair would get me to sit at my desk so much more! One of my mentors used to say that’s the biggest impedement to publishing, and I think he’s right.

1. I would recycle it.
2. Strive to become worthy of love
3. Looking for a chair that has great support cause I work at a desk all day at work and at home.

1. I would likely use parts of the box for school projects and recycle the rest!
2. One of my resolutions, my top priority, is to be a more positive person. Sounds cheesy, but there’s so many people around me who help cheer me up all of the time, that I’d like to pay them back by doing the same for them, as well as give them a break for a while, all while feeling better each day. I would also be so proud to get a design printed on Threadless.com this year!
3. I would use it at home while working on school projects. Not only would it be an amazing health benefit, but it would allow me to move my beautiful $30 scrapyard 1970’s Eames molded fiberglass armchair out into the living room to share with everyone I love… However, besides the physical and aesthetic pleasures that the Leap chair would provide, I can honestly say it would boost my spirit and make me work even harder through these next 2 and a half years of art school!

1. this box would work well for a cubicle inside of my work cubicle. i would refer to this cubicle as the “party cube,’ and yes, there will be whiskey.

2. be more cognizant of life itself.

3. i play guitar at my desk, because everything is hooked up to the computer. it would be a lot easier if i had this bro-tercycle. it also looks very comfortable.

1. I will fold & store it properly.

2. Relocate to new place.

3. I will be relocating this year; I have a massive storage box & want to carry a great product…
…steelcase Leap gift from NOTCOT.

1) I shall build myself home.
2) Furnish my home if I ever make one, that is if I win a contest. :P
3) I shall have a place to sit in my new boxy home. ;)

1. Temporary shelter for studio

2. Be myself

3. Steelcase Leap will hopefully get me laid with all the smokin’ designer babes

1. I will design a house for my cat to sit in and build it with the cardboard from the Leap box. She will appreciate that it is a Steelcase box and we can sit in our Steelcase products together (unless, because she’s faster than I am, she gets to the Leap before I do, in which case I might have to sit in her cardboard house).

2. My New Year’s Resolution is (ironically) to learn the ins and outs of chair construction so I can design and build chairs of my own for myself and others. I hope that in my downtime from school I will be able to find the time and the resources to make it happen!

3. I’ve never owned any chairs of comparable quality to the Leap, and I’ve also never really won anything before. I’ve always wanted to do both because I’m a chair nut, and this will be like winning the lottery but, in a weird way, better. I will also be very excited to sit in a chair that actively improves my health, and being fortunate enough to actually have a Leap will be a dream come true.

1. Build a scale replica of the Hearst Castle for my cat.
2. Drink more, get fatter, lose my job and my house. I figured I should go for negative resolutions this year because I always go for the positive ones and they have the opposite effect, so this should work in my favor. Reverse Psych-resolution-ology or something like that.
3. Stare at it. Finally I could have a piece of furniture in my house that no one is allowed to sit in, placed in a room no one is allowed to go in, just like the room my dear old Mom had when I was a wee youngin.

1. Ya I’m thinking it would be a Scooby Doo hounted house first. the the 4yearold would maybe want a pirate ship then its totaly a stair slide for what ever last. We have experience with multitasking boxes My kid loves duct tape and cardboard just ask the christmas toys he doesn’t play with yet because he still has two boxes left.

2. Try to see the other side of my Managers strange decisions.

3. The chair would totaly help eliminate the need to kick drafters while I’m fixing the drawings befor I program them for the Laser cutter. While helping keep calm when the rush job comes in when i’m on the 10,000 line of code doing an edit. Most importantly Allowing my coworkers a peicful place to sit while I run for more coffe so they too can be peiceful.

1. well, it is for packing my new steelcase chair! i’ll go back to bandung when i get it! hehehe…

2. my resolution? well, it is: “my friend’s little single goldfish will get a little baby fish”. this came to my resolution because it’s bad to see my friend’s fish live alone in that bowl because my friend can’t buy another. therefore, even if the little baby fish doesn’t have any father, it will be better for the baby to born and live together with my friend’s fish. (i’m kind ain’t i?)

3. i haven’t thought about this but… well, hope it could be my all in one living tools. i can sleep there, eat there, sit there, live there, yawn there, yell there, stand there, read there, designing there, and everything will be great! (and a bit abnormal i think… and that’s why it would change my whole life)

1. Build a fort, of course! And use the leftover scraps to cut out paper dolls to protect said fort when I am away.

2. To not to be so OCD about everything, and to ease up on the newlywed husband because he isn’t OCD.

3. Right now we have no desk chair. Every time we want to sit down at the desk we bring in a chair from the kitchen. Sad, I know. But that’s why we need this fabulous chair!

1.) Make cardboard swords and (paper)cut my roommates.

2.) Stop wasting paper…

3.) Sit at work more comfortably while still doing nothing.

1. I would use the box to post back a really Large Thank You note to Notcot and Steelcase for choosing me as the winner of a super, duper leap chair!!
2. Simple…stop smoking.
3. If I was the winner of a Leap Chair, I would be happier at work, and would stop having to leave my desk for a smoke break every 10 minutes due to great uncomfort and stress. In this way Notcot and Steelcase would have helped me not only achieve my new years resolution, but increased my life by 20 years having given up such a bad habbit.

1) What would you do with the massive box?

Fort for my 2 year old. He would have a blast with a big cardboard fort…until the wife forced us to take it to recycling.

2) What is your New Year’s Resolution?

To win more contests…having won none so far means I can only go up from here.

3) How will the Steelcase Leap improve your life?

Considering the ancient chair I currently use at home anything is better. This is similar to the chair work provides for me and since I do a bit of work on my home machine I could use that same comfort.

1. We’ll be needing that cardboard for heat as the old files are running out, damn the electronic age! SAving trees indeed. We’re already resorted to snorting the old instant coffee downstairs. The sweet and low seems to have a strange affect on hungry minds. The twenty year old samples of product from packaging assignments in the 80’s have produced hallucinations, but not in a bad way. Creative seems to be at an all time high pitched frenzy. The rest of the staff has been hiding in the attic while we patrol and stand guard awaiting fedex, ups or any other stranger who happens by…a good fire will make cooking easier. Can’t live on condiments and old client snackage forever can you?
2. Resolution? Survival. That’s a resolution dammit. Followed directly by the reinstallation of our regular goal to take over the world…might be nice to redecorate the basement while we’re at it. Maybe put in a pool table or a sauna…but I digress.
3. Nothing says world domination like a good evil mastermind in a solid, classy chair. And rhapsodizing here at this backwoods garden of prolific posturing and incessant alliteration has really made my backside antsy for some recognition of late. In a nutshell, it would behoove us all to please my butt before the attitude spreads… at least is seems that way to me.

1. Canvas for my artwork.
2. Stop Smoking.
3. Stare.

1. In all honesty I would probably use it for storage of all the Volkswagen/Audi parts that I have seemed to “collect” over the years. VW love is a disease I swear it!

2. My goals for ‘09 are to better myself as a designer/artist by using all the crazy ideas in my head instead of being apathetic, spend more quality time with my wife enjoying the things we both love, walk the dogs daily as the weather permits, keep improving my health … and the list could go on.

3. The Steelcase Leap will definitely help my life. Since I am freelancing while being out of work (layoffs are the pits!) and spend alot of time in my computer chair, my back is starting to feel the effects of this crumbling, $20 Office Depot clearance chair. I need ergonomic support. I need to be cuddled while I work! My lower back screams for the Steelcase Leap.

1. To be honest I would probably use it to store packing peanuts. I hate throwing them in the landfill and always need a better (bigger) place to store them.
2. New Years resolution is to travel more, and be better about saving money.
3. I currently use a vintage Scandinavian dining chair at my desk, and the seat is hard as a rock. The new chair would relieve my aching behind.

1. I would most likely use it a trash bin for a week or two.

2. The only resolution I had was to coincidently buy an adjustable office type chair for the watercolor studio I made out of a 6x6 closet I have.

3. Hopefully, a steel case would make me more productive in. Of course, NOT enter in contests which I probably won’t win will make me more productive. Thanks

I would use the box to make an origami style war mask that is disproportionately large to my body; taking my normal 5’10” height to an intimidating 10’; then wear it to meetings at work, to buy breath mints at the store, and to elegant wine tastings; but not for Halloween.

My New Year’s resolution is to tackle something that scares me every month; such as travel to a far away place, get a motorcycle, etc.

The Leap chair would help my back, which would help my life. The chairs at work are horribly uncomfortable. However I would be scared to have the chair stolen at work. I supposed I’d have to try it due to my resolution. Chair security might be another application for my war mask…

Thanks for the Giveaway!

1. Pretend it was a castle or some type of fort, then recycle it of course
2. Say thank you more
3. As a current design student the chair i own, can only be raised and lowered with a hammer and a screw driver, and for some reason tilts forward. If I were to win this chair, I would be able to comfortably work, and (hopefully) turn out much better work.

1) I live in Buenos Aires where a group of people called “cartoneros” make their living searching the streets looking for any paper or cardboard material to sell to recycling plants. They’ll be more than happy to put their hands on such a treasure!

2) I want to quit mi current job and start doing something on my own.

3) Since I’m starting to work as a freelacer from home I can foresee myself being endless hours chained to my desk (I’m a designer, so the computer is almost an extension of my body), and as a consequence having innumerable back aches :(
If Steelcase Leap works miracles on people’s posture, productivity and happiness, I definitely want it!!!

1)Recycle: I would make a huge book with binding and everything and fill it with upcycled papers…I did this with an old jello box: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=12095253

2)Resolution: I am starting to sell my creations and will become as famous as Andy Warhol!

3)Chair improved life: I’m giving this chair to my hubby so he won’t be sitting on the kitchen chair anymore…which means I will be giving less back and shoulder massages. Double gift!

1) I´d make the box my own giant infinite ashtray, then, when it´s full of ash and butts I´d take it to a school, draw a monster face on it and tell children what my lungs have become, so they don´t ever want to put a damn cigarette in their mouth.

2) Stop smoking, have lots of clients and a good chair to work from, cause this stupid thing I have right now is destroying my back.

3) This gorgeous looking chair is going to make my back laugh at life again cause it looks and feels like a moai head right now.

1. My daughter would turn it into a reading nook— no kidding, we have a small house and she loves getting away by herself like a turtle going into its shell. She’d sit in it and read.
2. To spend more time with my friends.
3. It would be the only comfortable part of my day!!! My bed is not comfortable, the couch makes my back hurt, and our dining room chairs are hard!

1. My daughter would turn it into a reading nook— no kidding, we have a small house and she loves getting away by herself like a turtle going into its shell. She’d sit in it and read.
2. To spend more time with my friends.
3. It would be the only comfortable part of my day!!! My bed is not comfortable, the couch makes my back hurt, and our dining room chairs are hard!

1. To save a little money, I’ve been grabbing T-shirt inspiration from various sites and then cutting patterns into sturdy paper products (like card board boxes) to spray paint on Hanes solids. I’m pleased with the results and people often ask me where I got my shirt from which I like.

2. As a recent graduate with a girlfriend on the opposite end of my time zone, my resolution is to try to start my career near her, working at a job that I’ll enjoy.

3. I’ve had the same desk chair since I was in 5th grade…seriously. I suppose it works in the sense that it is not broken, but just swiveling doesn’t save my back or shoulders after hours of working on a project or job searching.

1) I would absolutely build a fort for my Basenji & Beagle

2) I resolve to get more creative work done outside of the 9 to 5 work

3) Strap myself to it for a weekend and wheel myself EVERYWHERE !

1. I’ll cut the box down into smaller pieces to use as frame backings for my photos.
2. 2009 resolution: Make it happen.
3. I spend the better part of each day sitting at my computer, designing or administrating. The Steelcase Leap will help my sore back and allow me to throw down at a higher level.

1. I would do a stop motion animation scene
2. Make a short movie mixing stop motion, theater and tradicional 2D motion.
3. It will save my life because I stay in front the computer the most part of my day, working, reading, having fun, everything…oh and my actual chair is terrible!

1) I don’t think my dog would let me get away with not making a fort for her with the massive box. (She loves boxes)

2)My new years resolution for 2009 is to increase my personal brand, esp. online (since I’m an interactive designer).

3)I’d actually sit at my desk instead of on the couch, my current desk chair is painful. I think I’d get more work done at my desk so it would overall improve my productivity.

1) Keep the box to create my robot costume for Halloween 2009!
2) To only be robot-like on October 31st.
3) Sitting comfortably and properly are things that are of concern to humans, thus, I will be more human the rest of the year. I just have to remember to not sit down during Halloween.

Cheers!

1. I need huge pieces of cardboard to make street art.
2. My New Years Resolution is to create more art. I have been a student for the last four years and it has been interfering with my goal to create art.
3. I have fibromyalgia and have to do homework all over the house because my chair is uncomfortable and makes my achy. I am starting grad school right now and my hours will be stuck in a chair for more than 40 hours a week!A STEELCASE LEAP chair would allow me to do work efficiently thus becoming a brilliant scholar of Brazilian funk music and culture! :)

1) make a cave for my dog Arthur.

2)Read all the unread books on my shelf, a good 150…

3)Currently my home office looks an awful lot like my bedroom, as my little red tractor stool isn’t cutting it for 8hour editing sessions.

1. Guest bedroom— I’ve already got the bedding picked out. (The bedding is newspaper.)
2. I decided to not get any older— in age, that is.
3. Well, you see, I took this $14.99 computer chair from my brother when I moved into my apartment ‘bout a year and a half ago. Since then the modest back support began to shift & wobble until there was no back support at all. For almost a year now I’ve been using a swiveling computer stool, as it were. I believe the Steelcase Leap is the one and only chair that can—not only end my computer hunching posture—but actually restore my back to what it once was.

1)Living in NYC isn’t the best place to have huge boxes lying around :) So many ways to use a cardboard box! Cut into fan blades, attach to rods made from PVC, orient them in a circle, stretch white spandex around the object and drop a light into for a nice inexpensive DIY chandelier.
If that didn’t work I would use it to mail myself to Vegas and meet you at CES :)
OK fine, I would make add an addition on to my apt through the window and call it my “urban garden”… HA! This is fun!

2) New Years resolution for ‘09 is to enter my work in more galleries and make more of a name for myself winning design competitions and hopefully use that as a launching pad for opening my own studio.

3) Winning the Steelcase Leap will help me by giving me the motivation and that extra lease on life I have been needing to hurry up and start up my own studio. It will also be the first piece of furniture I put in the new space and will for me, be a place to sit, think and create.

Thank you!

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Probably use it for storage or a playhouse for my new nephew. Also I’d use the chair to show off to my friends and make them think I do lots of important work at my desk.

1-give thebox to homeless people in my neighbourhood for shelter against harsh winter
2 - to continue my journey of becoming a better person
3 - help get rid of my back problems and hopefully improve my posture

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1. I would make a super sweet dog bed for my miniature schnauzer, Bentley. Ooh I could probably make it look like a Bentley too!

2. My new years resolution is to HAVE MORE FUN! Making a super sweet Bentley bed out of a massive box sounds like a lot of fun to me!

3. The Steelcase Leap will help make my life better! I have lower back problems/pain ever since a bad fall I took when I was a kid. I am a Software Engineer and I like to do graphics design in my spare time - so I sit at a desk all day. I did some research and the Steelcase Leap is #1 ergonomic support and is sure to help reduce my back pain thus making my quality of life much better! :)

1)make a table, sell it on ebay, spend the money, boost economy
2)start smoking
3)will get more “chair twirling” breaks, wohooooooo

I have posted my answers visually at http://www.public.asu.edu/~crbrow1/notcotgiveaway.pdf

1- I think I would use the large shipping box, at first as a new piece to my collection of clutter. I would slowly get used as needed for backer board for framed artwork that would then be placed on the walls of homes elsewhere.

2- My resolution which is already going quite well is: To quit the gym and just enjoy walking or biking the town instead of driving. Quitting the gym was the most satisfying part of the resolution.

3- My current studio chair has a short term memory problem. It unfortunately thinks that I am a midget. Somewhere around 2 ft. tall. But I’m actually a good 6 ft. tall. I sometimes, when I’m in a hurry, I miss sitting in the chair completely and end up on the floor. A new Steelcase leap chair would allow me to trust my chair again allowing it to be a trusted creative partner. And bring back an air of confidence back into my wonderful studio, it so greatly deserves.

1. I would use the cardboard to make little chairs for my playhouse.

2. Save money to move to London next year.

3. At work, I sit on this awful chair from the mid-70s that until a couple of weeks ago had a piece of masking tape on it that read “mr. ed” and slides down when I turn to the right too many times. With the Leap chair, I would be more comfortable while sitting for long hours in front of the computer, so I can work more hours and save up money for my dream move :)

1. I’d fill the oversized box with items to donate to charity: I’ve been sorting through my stuff and have pile items ready to donate, and having a large box would be wonderful so I don’t have to deal with trying to fit everything into saved grocery bags
2. I’m aiming for an attainable resolution this year: Dress more professionally. I work for a software company, so it’s easy to dress like the programmers, but I’m a graphic designer, so I should dress nicer and more professionally. So this year’s goal is to shift my cloth buying perspective and choose well designed, quality items.
3. Beyond the ergonomics that will improve my seating posture (and slouching spine) the Steelcase will improve my life as I won’t have to battle with my boyfriend over my nicer office chair any more. He keeps using mine (the nicer one) instead of his, but if I have the Steelcase, he can keep my old chair :-)

1. Make it into a giant 1950s computer terminal prop for my science-fiction movie I need an excuse to start filming.
2. To figure out what I’m going to do after college
3. It will keep me from laying in my bed with my computer on my lap, which is terrible for both my productivity and my back. I’ll be able to get rid of the old rusting swivel-stool that I found on the side of the road and finally be comfortable enough at my desk to get some work done writing and designing.

1. I would cut out the cardboard sides into custom patterns that could fold & tab together into storage/organizer for drawing supplies at school and my giant sheets of paper

2. My New Year’s resolution is to finally convert an IBM personal system 2 into a fish tank. (with a fish named GUI)

3. Steelcase will keep my back from breaking when I spend long hours on my computer putting together some product render in Alias, and replace my broken garage sale chair. They also may employ on some future date if I actually get that lucky/skilled.

1. Leave the chair in it.
2. Pay off my credit card.
3. I’ll sell it to help #2.

Is that too honest?

1. I would like to think I would do something clever like …….build a giant tom cruise head and bring it to an anti scientology protest, light it on fire and film it burn to the ground, post it on you tube, after receiving one billion hits and gaining the attention of the media , I would get invited to late night talk shows on an off night. Due to my good looks, sunny disposition, and my interesting actual career choice (aka stuffed animals with buttholes)… I would get a minor role in some b rated cop and or doctor shows as a dead guy or someone dying…..be seen with olsen twins at a party…..which will land me a role as a store clerk in an upcoming comedy starring renee zeleiiwigwar. Due to my obsessive personality I would become addicted to the attention. When the attention dies down I will drown my sorrows in gambling (aka the stock market) and the promotion of my own bad sex tapes in a desperate attempt to revitalize my career…years later……..I will find religion, become a preacher and start a late night pray-a-thon with the help of MC hammer………….

2. ….. Another years dream-
Grab the power of the
….Golden Sun

3. Chair. Chairrrrr. Chaa. Chuuuuuuu. Chooo. Choo. Cheeee. Cherry. Cher. Remember when she sang on that naval vessel with the big hair and leotard situation. Number one double super chair Cher approved!!

1. Since I have no kids, but loved making things our of boxes when I was little, I would probably figure out how to convert the box into a club house and then post photos and instructions for how to so others can make them at home. Then maybe do an auction for the original box and have the proceeds go to housing for homeless kids.

2. I aim to do more personal development. I want to learn something new or execute something that I can look back at and be really proud of.

3. I have to assume that the Leap chair is way more ergonomic and comfortable than the little plastic stool I am currently using in my studio. I’d be hoping for an easier time spending long hours at the desk.

1 for my cat bed
2 to let my mustache grow
3 wow it will help my back,

1. I’ll put my old chair in it and give it to a friend.

2. I’m not a resolution guy really, but something I really want to do is get back to learning. I’ve been out of school for four years now and working like a dog. I feel like I’ve plateaued a bit and I need to delve deeper into the technical side of design and expand what I am capable of creating.

3. I’m a graphic designer and I work very very long days. My chair isn’t even remotely comfortable, and it becomes increasingly difficult to stay creative when my ass and back are killing me. This chair would improve my quality of life in a very real way.

I would fold it up and lay it on my curent chair for padding. My sore bum would appreciate it.

1. i would DEFINITELY build a fort, and our little dog could come play in it too.

2. my resolution(s) are to drink less, cook more, and be more patient.

3. um, this chair would make my life about 89x better! i feel as though i am always fussing with my chair at work. it’s ridiculously uncomfortable and my sister tells me i have knots all down my spine. no matter how i adjust it, it’s just not comfortable. if i had a nice lovely chair that supported my back and possibly kept my posture better, i’d be a much happier worker bee. i might even like coming to work. who knows.

1. My first thought was to practice backspins on the cardboard. But I haven’t done one in decades, so I can honestly say that that won’t be happening. My next thought was to make a cardboard bike out of it, cause I’ve always wanted to try that. As much as I’d like to say I’d get right to work, you and I both know it would sit in the basement until I got tired of moving it from place to place. But since I’d be down there anyway, and we have so much crap in the basement that we want to donate, I’d make a donation box.

2. Resolutions are silly, but I always resolve to do something positive. This year I tried to stop eating sugar, which lasted about 70 minutes.

3. My grandma gave me a great desk as a gift, which didn’t come with a chair. So I’d be able to retire the dining room chair from my workspace.

1) Make a DIY cardboard office chair.

2) Ween myself off DIY projects.

3) Become rich when DARPA buys the rights to my patented AMAZING Cardboard Office Chair.

1. I’d definitely make the box into my own personal Narnia. Screw a wardrobe, I got a cardboard box! And everytime I needed a get away from the stressors of real life, I’d crawl into my box and zone out in my own little world.

2. Resolutions are cliche, and I’m so ADHD I usually forget them at least 11 minutes after making them.

It’s like:
“Okay! This year I will loose this weight!”
Seconds later…
“I want cake.”

3. I have scoliosis. I need a good chair :( I can’t rule Narnia with a bad back!

1. I would create the box into a roller coaster that I’d ride down my stairs.
2. My New Years resolution would be to use cruise control on my car from now on after obtaining 3 speeding tickets within a quarter!
3. Steelcase Leap would assist in fixing my posture for I’ve developed a hunch in my back.

1> What couldn’t I do,

THINK: DIY
Make a Bed Tray
Have breakfast in bed on a tray made from the cardboard box.Decorate with paint or with adhesive shelf paper and you’re ready for those bacon and eggs.

THINK: Reduce Reuse and Recycle
Soil for Summer Garden
You can shred cardboard and add it to your compost heap. It would also make a good mulch that’s If you can compost it (worms would love it!) then at least you know it is going to do some good.

THINK: Inside The Box
Make Memorable Laughs
Make cardboard box into a makeshift phone booth and hook up my landline in it.

2> Leap forward and reach my goals 100%, even if it mean to have less of them. It’s time.

3>Leap frog over obstacles I want to get up and walk away from.
Leap through long long work days and nights because I’m able to work better. And most importantly, just Leap in and get things done.

1. I will give it to my boyfriend to lie on when he is working underneath my old truck.

2. To get tattoo number two.

3. With a devine ass like mine it will make the finest accessory.

1. Paint. I can’t wait to get new card board boxes.

2. Stop wasting so much. Not use plastic bags. Smoke less.

3. Help my back for sure. I work at my desk a lot but can’t afford a good chair and my back is already bad.

1. I would definitely build a fort for my little cousins :)
2. To stop procrastinating
3. My posture sucks…so hopefully this awesome chair would help.

Thanks for another great contest!

) I love huge boxes! And so does my cat. I would probably use it to build a kitty playhouse, with platforms and ramps and toys inside (what can I say, I love my cat!)
2) Hmmm, I usually don’t do resolutions, but this year I’ve got one: Get into college and make the right choice about which one to attend. I’m going into engineering and have applied to a bunch of schools, but I really just can’t decide which one is best for me. 3) The comfort, definitely. My current desk chair is just hard, straight-backed dining chair, which makes being at my desk unenjoyable after about 20 minutes. If I were to have this chair I would probably even bring it with me to college so I could do my math homework more efficiently, giving me more time to have fun after all the work. :)

First, thanks for the opportunity at this great giveaway!

1. I would pay hommage to Steelcase by creating a “Tropic Thunder” lile diorama with my G.I. Joe collection. It’s been on the backburner for years.
eventually, it would get displayed where I work.

2. To couch-surf around Europe, visiting old friends and making new ones.

3. After planning my multi-month adventure from the chair, and thus breaking it in, I would give it to my father who at 75 is still a computer whiz and spends many hours a day in front of his CPU, in a very poor chair.

1. with 2 kids, this one’s easy…Build the fort and paint it into an amazing castle hideaway.

2. My new years Resolution is only 72 dpi…(sorry couldn’t resist that one)…actually, i need to spend less time sitting on my butt working and more time playing and building castles with the kids.

3. a new groovy Steelcase Leap would hopefully make the time i spend on my butt much more comfortable and eliminate the elaborate system of pillow supports obsolete.

1. Considering recent Housing and Mortgage crisis… might well use it to live in, or at least use as an extension.
2. Try to stop entering competitions you have no chance of winning.
3.I’d stop having chair envy ( a legitimate psychological disorder i think you’ll find)

1. The box? I’d let my kids go to town on decorating it with paint, pasta, glitter, you name it. Then I’d drop in all my loose change for the rest of the year, find a family in need and leave it on their door step.

2. My New Year’s Res. is to live more simply. I already cleaned out my pantry and freezer, a couple boxes in the garage and my bedroom closet. Yeah baby!

3. I would mostly spin around on my kitchen floor until I was dizzy. Other than that, I would trade the old rusty metal stool we are using as a computer chair now and replace it with this nifty little thing!

1) build a playhouse for my baby girl…
2) i have two main resolutions that are seemingly contradictory… work harder but spend more time with my family… how can i accomplish this?
3) i plan to work more from home, which is why i need this chair. my current home-studio chair was purchased for $5 from a dot-com that busted back in 2002. the upholstery is full of dust and the foam is starting to tear off… plus, having an ergonomic chair will reduce my massage therapy costs…

1 - I would take it (and a recently acquired guitar box) to make myself a new desk, or failing that, a new coffee table. Furniture boxes are thicker and sturdier than most and make great structure material!
2 - I would like to do more writing. For my blog, for myself, for all the things I need to do in my life.
3 - Sitting is a BIG part of writing, and being comfortable (or at least not distracted by your discomfort) is a big part of focusing.

1. Donate to The Center for Creative Re-Use in Oakland.
2. I resolved to make no more resolutions.
3. Ease my aching back!

1. I will either build a fort with my kid or turn it into a pull-wagon for him.
2. To clear my SCEA certification.
3. A Steelcase Leap would be much better than a dining chair which is what I use right now to work on my computer.

1) I had considered various artistic purposes for the box, but in reality, I would probably rig it up to make a giant dartboard because I need a great deal of practice before I play 301 in public again. (OOPS!)
2) In 2009, I intend to learn to cook something besides Rice Krispie Chicken because my husband makes me look bad.
3) Now that I’ve finished student teaching in a high school English class, I’m peering into my future of 35-odd years grading countless research papers, and I know that the “hugging sensation” the Leap affords will be the comfort I need to press on.

Well, for starters, i would make my cat a massive fort… She loves boxes, they really are her crack! As far as my new years resolution, I have two: one is to have a completely new wardrobe by the end of the year, and have my cafe take off to the point where I can open a second store. And this chair would change my life… I take design very seriously, and it has always been my theory to favor form over function, but to have a sexy looking chair that has all the functionality built in, well, that would be epic.

1) I turn the box into a doghouse for my lab-retriever. Hopefully, he won’t be able to tear it apart!
2) My New Years Resolution: Originally, was not to have one. However, I think we can all benefit from new New Years Resolution: Do at least one good deed a day.
3) I would give the leap chair to my sister who is in dire need of a new chair, but can’t afford to spend the money.

1) I’d make it into a hangout center for my cat.
2) My new year’s resolution is to stop spending so much time in coffeeshops.
3) I bet the chair would be a great incentive to stop going to those coffeeshops.

1. I just moved to Queens and have yet to fully furnish my place so I’ll be using the box as a desk in the short term. In the long term when I have a real desk I’ll decorate and turn it into my apartment’s clubhouse.

2. Only one? I guess my top one is to blog every day (www.wearecyborgs.net).

3. The chair will make me feel much more comfortable as I struggle to find a niche as a freelancer.

1. The box is a canvas! Cut it into interesting shapes, use the scraps to paste back on for some 3-dimensionality (think topography, like Maya Lin, perhaps?) - My girlfriend and I do alot of art together, so cutting that thing up and gluing + painting it would make a great over the bed work.

2. My new years resolution was to introduce more color into my living space. So far, I’ve replaced my black/grey sheets with tangerine ones.

3. The chair would improve my life simply because it will give me the support I need. I’m a broke medical student and I spend a lot of time hunched/slouched over working on my $35 staples desk chair. While this sounds pretty average, the kicker is that I injured my upper back and shoulder back in high school playing sports, and have yet to find a chair that does not hurt that area after extended use. This chair looks like a good candidate.

I would make a fort for my cat. Then, when he was bored with that, I’d cut it up and add it to the stack of cardboard pieces that will eventually become my crazy recycled coffee table.

My new years resolution is to become self supported doing my artwork, selling it, and also doing freelance graphic design work. Eventually I’d like to design furniture, clothing and jewelry. I got the jewelry down, now for the other two!

I would use the chair in my new home office, since now I’m sitting on a little wooden kitchen chair…

1. Save the box, and make a Halloween costume. Transformer-Box-Man.

2. 2009 Resolution is to go full-time freelance and throw away the 9-5

3. It will definitely help me fulfill part of my 2009 resolution with a nice comfy chair that will not kill my back so no chiropractor visits.

1) I would write out hopes, dreams, and affirmations in paint and keep it in my little dorm room for good cheer.
2) To live life fearlessly
3) It will make the end of my senior year in college more comfortable and carry me into the workplace with comfort as well!

1) Actually I need the box to make a new house for my lovely pet cat Camillo
2) more workout and more artwork
3) I work online so I spend far too much time in front of computer, more time than doing anything else, so it would make my life a million times better, and it will certainly help to eliminate my back pain. so more smiles :D

1) I would take the box and make two bedside tables.
2) My new year’s resolution is to make it into MAKE magazine or to to Maker Faire.
3) The Steelcase Leap will improve my life because I just moved into a new apartment and the only seating my wife and I have are two folding chairs from Wal-Mart (Barf).

1. You mentioned the fort and my nephew sure would like to do that, but I think that the box would probably be used to help organize the garage that has been needing some extra storage. I would pile all the spare reptile supplies into the box.

2. My new years resolution is to finally complete some projects I have started. I have a few websites that I need to finish and start the process of commercializing/advertising. (and of course get rid of those extra pounds I am in need of, but that seems to be a yearly one)

3.The leap chair would help me achieve my new years resolution, it would replace my current broken chair that does not adjust height and the padding is worn. I could be comfortable creating advertising and new content that would be essential for the growth of my websites.

1) What would you do with the massive box? Cut it up. Some of it would be used as a cutting mat for the model ship I am building.
Some would go to my cat, to scratch. The rest would be recycled.

2) What is your New Year’s Resolution? To write more. And I mean with pen and paper.

3) How will the Steelcase Leap improve your life? I also want to blog, blogging in the cruddy $29 chair I have now hurts.

On reflection, I do not need this chair. Give it to someone who does.

Thanks for offering this contest.
1.) Although I am a proud owner of Breakin’ and Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo DVDs, I prefer to use the extra cardboard to build a guest chair for my cubicle. In fact, I would create a unique chair design and enter it into the aias/icpf chair affair 2009 cardboard design competition. I can see this turning into a perpetual contest type of thing.
2.) My 2009 resolution is to start a family.
3.) The Steelcase Leap will help my life because it will provide me with comfort during my 9 to 10 hours of daily sitting while I work. Currently I battle with worn out, anti-ergonomic, life-shortening office chairs provided by my employer. I would love to see what I could do with an up to 17.8% productivity increase.

1) Robot suit. Obvious.
2) Respect myself and take more risks!
3) Need a replacement for my paint bucket. Even with the magazine stack on it it’s not that comfortable as a computer chair.

1. I would turn the cardboard box into furniture for my college dorm using instructions from this website: www.foldschool.com.
2. Recently, I was in a car accident that paralysed my father. My family situation is really unstable in the midst of hospital bills, extreme pressure on my mom to deal with every family matter, my college tuition, my grandparents being in poor health, insurance issues, et cetera. My New Year’s Resolution isn’t one I can fully achieve this year, but it’s to stabilise my family again. By this I mean to work hard in school so that I can have a good job in the future that will provide me with the resources to pay off the debts we are accumulating and provide the best care for my family that is sacrificing a lot and going through very tough times right now. I resolve to do what is necessary so that the issues my family has faced will not affect the quality of my future children and my sister’s childrens’ lives.
3. This chair will not directly benefit my life, but I would use it as a tool for my father’s rehabilitation. We hope that he will soon regain feeling in paralysed areas and I feel that the advanced engineering and design of the chair will help provide a template for a proper and healthy posture for my father’s spine and back so that recovery will be more possible.

1. I will break that box down and make some wicked stencils with it.
2. My New Year’s Resolution is my everyday resolution, “Be better than you are…”
3. I injured my neck several years ago and find that when I have bad sitting posture (all too frequently), the pain reoccurs. If I had a sweet chair to help me ease then tension in my back and neck, you’d have a very happy camper on your hands. Plus, it will free up my current desk chair to be modified into an ultimate racing machine.

thanks for the contest folks.

colin

1. I use old boxes to repackage post — from cutting up a thick shoe box to make a box to mail CDs to my friends to making postcards for my toddler nephews and nieces.

2. My main resolution this year is to become more philanthropically involved in my community. The social ecology is good here, and I need to do my share to keep it that way.

3. Last winter, I developed a back problem that was easily fixed with a little conscious change in posture and some stretching. This winter, I’ve been slacking in regard to posture and stretching in exchange for more work hours.

You know how good typography allows you to focus on the content rather than the layout and design? A chair like this would be good type. I wouldn’t be distracted by posture and I could concentrate on my work.

1. First I would lay the box on its side and watch our crazy cat crawl around, in, and on it, gnawing little cat-tooth-shaped holes on the flaps. I might shut the lid flaps when she is inside if I need a break, or a laugh. (Then I would probably cut up the box and use it for mailing packages.)
2. My resolution is to stop procrastinating. I even have a motto: Crack those coconuts! (As in, just do that hard work in order to get to the reward.)
3. I’m guessing this amazing chair would help the upper shoulder tingling that comes from sitting in a tiny cheapo office chair. Which has also succumbed to the claws of said crazy cat…

1. I plan on surprising my husband on valentines day by enacting one of his fantasies which involves cute underwear, myself hidden in the box, gift wrap (I hope he figures out he has to open the box!!!)

2. My new years resolution was to have an overall positive attitude absolutely no negativity, and to step outside of my comfort zone and be adventurous!

3. I’m currently living with my in-laws who run a business from the house, my mother in law has sever arthritis and finds it difficult to sit in one place for a long time. She is badly in need of a new chair but due to the economy it will have to wait. If I win this chair I plan on giving it to her. She has helped my life in so many ways it would be helping my life by helping hers! (and yes I know how mushy this may seem!)

xoxo

1. I would cut in into different sized rectangles AND paint a twenty or so masterpieces to GIVE AWAY TO CHARITY. *way to combine, eh?
2. My resolution is to go green by stop buying things I don’t need and to reuse the things I have in new and industrious ways. *packaging counts and was covered in #1
3. Painting in a new and more comfortable chair will make my back, neck, and arms happy and also tie into #1 and #2… I’m talking REUSE, baby!

Hello there, what a nice giveaway this is xD.

Lets begin with the answers:

1. I would fill the box with teddy bears, blankets, pillows, socks, pajamas etc. and deliver it to the kids shelter to keep the kids warm till the end of winter.

2. NY Resolution. Be More Green. There is even a ECO font in case u didn’t know, it saves up to 20% of your ink therefore makes less cartridge waste ;) i always say Tune In. Go Green.

3. Why? Well its simple, i’m a web designer/graphic design artist who is a sucker for good piece of furniture .. this Steelcase Leap would fit so well with my working desk. Ah my friends would be so jealous xD

1. We are a distribution company and use only recycled shipping materials. I would use the box to ship items. We also provide rewards to dealers who do the same. This box could live a very long life…..
2. My new years resolution is to care more for me. My body, my heart and my belly!
3. I have the worst office chair - it doesn’t sit straight. Hopefully this chair will help me sit straight. I assume this straightening will lead to bigger things like higher productivity and eventually leading to world domination.

I would fashion a robot costume out of the box - to be worn with only pure silk underwear and perfume underneath
My NYR is to believe
It would mean I can continue to have great sex during ‘school nights’ and not worry about an uncomfortable day at work in my (currently) rubbish chair. Thank you in advance from me and my boyfriend.

1: The box, would provide me with on campus home, so that I may never leave the digital and print press labs. Inside it will be filled with the comforts of home and possibly wallpapered. If I’m allowed my luxurious box would be placed near an outlet, there my coffee maker will brew constantly, my ipod portable player will sport out my daily playlist. The luxurious conditions of my box, will have a simply cot, there, I shall sleep, closing the flaps and begin my rejuvenation for the next day.
2:My new years resolution is to spend less nights sleeping under the vacuum table in the darkroom, and go home to bed.
3:The steel case leap chair would provide me with an excellent chair that does not resemble one that you would find in your kitchen. Mind you it would not provide the visual history of a half broken kitchen chair, with cigerette burns and beautiful beer and wine stains. But the chair would provide my back with a beautiful support that my current chair does not have (very literally its back is falling off).

1. A cat castle, with sectioned rooms and working utilities!


2. To achieve or come more closer to my dream career.


3. The Leap will help keep me comfortable through the long hours of designing I put in.

1. I would make a dance floor—-I am dancing an hour or more a day to get
into shape.
2. I want to become self-employed! The computer to become a major part of my
plan.
3. I need a computer chair—now sitting on a wooden chair—ouch!!!

1. I’d build a mini-jungle gym for my pet rabbit. When it gets chewed on too much I’d cut strips from it and make biodegradable seedling pots.

2. I just moved to a new city, so my New Year’s resolution is to learn all its streets by the end of the year.

3. My old desk chair got passed on to friends before I moved, so I could definitely use a new one right about now!

1) I would cut up the box and make mini-forts for my pets. Guinea pigs love box forts. If you give guinea pigs a lot of boxes (with a pig-sized door on either end) they start running around like mad and popping up into the air making happy “squee” noises.

2) Um? What resolution? How about, “Don’t get caught.” Enough said.

3) The Steelcase Leap would GREATLY improve my standard of living by reducing this whining noise in my ears. The noise is coming from the direction of my husband, a gentleman whose back is truly hurting him. So mush so that as he works in front of his laptop, he stuffs various bits of things behind him. As the day goes on? His chair becomes contoured like the Steelcase Leap’s very shape! But once he stands up, it collapses.
Improve my life? Help this gentleman with his back!

1. The box will probably become a spaceship, though as I recall I do possess the technology to turn it in to a time machine as well.

2. My new year’s resolution is execute all of the good ideas I have now, instead of saving them for later. According to the chair’s website, it can make me up to 17.8% more productive, which should be a big help, especially if I’m going to be making a spaceship.

3. I think that having a nice chair will make me more of an adult - it seems like a responsible thing to do.

1. I will recycle the box :-)
2. Be more productive at work, school, and in personal life
3. This amazing chair will make life easier by improving my posture during my long hours of browsing the notcot website :-)

1. That box would be cut into pieces and used for screen printing purposes and to make some cool shipping envelopes and boxes. A large piece may also be used to create some personal space in my shared apartment!
2. Wow, New Years Resolution. I always tell everyone that I stopped making them years ago to avoid disappointment at the end of January. Honestly though, I am just trying to make this the most progressive and creative year for myself. 2008 was my year of change and now I need to focus and channel all the positive crap that has happened in the last year into motivation for 2009.
3. I want this chair because I am sure my roommate is annoyed that I keep stealing the dining table chairs to sit at my desk! So, really, it is a gift to him!

1.Draw some tree and make a forest !
2.My resolution for 2009 is to don’t take resolution.
3.I think it’s better than my log !

1) second bedroom expansion to my condo
2) more dollars coming in, less dollars going out, and eat organic
3) boost me up so i can change out some lightbulbs

1) I’d fill the box with stuff to donate to charity. There’s a lot of people that could use some help during these tough times.

2) New Year’s resolution is to go out more and take care of self more.

3) I believe this chair will help me improve my posture and prevent my lower back from hurting any further.

1. Make smaller boxes out it and use it to ship gifts to all your friends.
2. To create more art, more personal projects and spend more time with my wife.
3. As a design instructor i need to be comfortable and relaxed in order to guide students toward good design practices. Patience is essential and can run thin if you are uncomfortable.

1. Create a sculpture with middle schoolers at the school where I volunteer
2. Positivity
3. Stave off osteoporosis and a hunched back

I would use the massive box to hold both my life-sized globe of the earth and to hold my abundance of other rather large and unwieldy boxes.

My resolution is to spread good work and cheer to all throughout the year.

It would match my new decor in my first house with my wife and 2 year old son, Sean. Currently we sit in front of our G4 on an IKEA cube. Not so comfortable and slightly stylish. We could use it.

Thanks to all!

1. fill it up with the garbage and send it back to your office as “dead mail”
2. smoke more cigarettes
3. I hope sex on that chair would be good/better/best

1: Did you say a big card-box? Is there gonna be enough card-box to build a life size Darth Vader?
2: My New Year resolution is to LEARN; to play guitar, to speak Chinese, to relearn German and many other things but these were the priority ones
3: This chair could assist me in these project

1. Hide in it and scare the crap out of my dog. Or, give it to a day care near here so the kids could build a fort with it (or how about the first, then the second, get double use out of it.

2. Taking the stairs at work. Good exercise, plus whenever you push 2, it takes you to 4, kind of pointless…

3. Broke my chair and am currently using a 9.99 ikea folding plastic chair. Anything is an improvement over that.

1. i would save the box and use it for my wife’s b-day by wrapping her gift in it. or use it to reinact the snl skit: “d—- in a box.” when i was done with the box i would recycle it.

2. 2009 resolution: make a baby. my wife has been pressing the issue for the past 2 years and it’s time i man up… i think i’m ready.

3. the steelcase will enhance the quality of my life because my wife has a nice ergonomically sound office chair at her work and she always rubs it in my face how wonderful it is and how much she loves it. if i win the steelcase that will be one less thing for her to gloat about… also my spine will be in heaven.

1. Being a budding Industrial Designer, all my packaging materials usually end up being enclosure prototypes.

2. I usually wait till the chinese new year for resolutions, but I guess surviving the financial crisis might be it.

3. I spend 8-10 hours in front of the computer, and my current chair is a chinese behemoth with the ergonomics and comfort of the electric chair, so yeah it would help my work and my back.

1: I would -definately- use it as a fort with the kids, until it wore out and then I would recycle it :)

2: I try not to make resolutions unless I intendo to keep them :) My resolution for this year is to keep doing what I’m doing now, only find ways to make it BETTER :)

3: This chair would improve my life with it’s mere presence! I work online so I am often in front of my computer. Having a lovely chair like this would make the job more enjoyable, comfortable and productive :D

Thanks for the great giveaway :)

1. i’d make the box into another chair.
2. NY Resolution: Work smarter, not harder.
3. The chair would make me a more structurally-sound person.

ONE: First of all, I would break it down…. :)
TWO: To “live in the now”- be more in touch with my present
THREE: Let me answer this question with a question: How could it not?!

1. What would I do with a massive box? Hmmm…it could be my mini shelter/apartment sitting in my mother’s yard if I can’t make it here in the west coast and force to moved back home. Hopefully that will never be the case!

2. My new year’s resolution for 2009 is to pass my LEED AP Exam before the end of the year.

3. I recently moved from Florida to California. I can’t afford to get furniture for the apartment yet and maybe for a while. It will be nice to have a comfortable chair to sit on instead of sitting on my one and only hard wood stool to draw at my portable drafting top. Plus it will be nice to win a freebie for once!

1. I’d load up a palette full of paint, climb in the box, close the lid to block as much light from coming in and imagine I’m a cave man painting on the walls in the dark. (Then of course photograph the results to be posted on notcot.org)
2. New Years Resolution is to quit my job and bring my online community curated fine art photography gallery business to fruition.
3. The Steelcase Leap would improve my life by providing comfort and good posture for the long hours I’ll no doubt spend in front of the computer planning and running my business. I’m using an old hardwood kitchen chair that may or may not collapse if I shift too much and I can only go about 15 minutes before I have to get up, take an aspirin, and stop working. Just think, help me start a successful business by adding increased productivity through the cadillac of desk chairs and in turn boost the economy and save the country. Its Win Win. WIIIIIIIIINNNNNN!

1) a little house for my toddler daughter - I’ve seen some around and I’m pretty sure we could build something simple but sweet with a large box.

2) learn more about statistics and probability.

3) The Steelcase Leap would make me smile every day - something otherwise hard in what may turn out to be a gloomy year.

1)Build a modest and sustainable prefab. Then shrink-ray myself and friends so we can enjoy it.
2) I will (try to) resolve to not give in to impulsive and frivolous purchases.
3) The Steelcase leap will help my life because I’ll have reaped the benefits of an amazing product (Look, ma! I’ve got a better posture!) without breaking my new years resolution!

Thanks for the opportunity. One of the many reasons that NotCot is number 1 on my symbaloo page!

- Recycle it! My apartment is too small to have a chair box just sitting around!
- New years resolution is to get in shape, but if you hook it up with this chair - forget it! I’ll have no reason to even stand up. I will roll in it to work and send you a video of that happening.
- My apartment is tiny. I’m 6’4 and my couch is too small to lay down on. I spend a lot of time in front of my computer working, but right now I just have this cheap Ikea chair that I got from the busted-bargain section. My back hurts! Help me out!! You’ll get a great video!!

1. I’d convert that damn fine shipping box into a closet storage box with a hanging rod for coats and fancy dresses. (Apparently I can’t part with outerwear or anything with a crinoline. My closet is exploding.)
2. New Year’s Resolutions: Listen better. Exercise daily. Don’t panic.
3. The Steelcase Leap Chair will improve my life because I will give it to my extremely talented composer husband. This will make him very happy and even more prolific and generate an even bigger roster of A-list clients who can’t get enough of his spectacular music. He will be so grateful that he will buy ME a Steelcase Leap Chair and I will type happily ever after in coordinated office-chair bliss.

1. I would let a homeless person (I’m thinking of one in particular on the corner of Geary and 20th avenue) use the cardboard box for shelter at night. If the box wasn’t big enough, I would turn it into a table and sign that I would use as a lemonade stand.
2. My new years resolution is to not let anyone hold me back from doing anything that I want to do (last year I found myself staying home all too often, just because my spouse didn’t want to go out). I also made a promise to myself that I would run the Nike women’s marathon in October 2009. I’ve never ran more than five miles before, so this should be interesting. :)
3. The Steelcase chair would be a blessing for my back.

1. build windows and give it to a homeless person with pillow and blanket
2. eat more organic green vegetables and fruits and drink more h2o
3. this will help my posture tremendously as i will have a proper chair and will no longer design sitting on the floor.
muchos gracias!

1. I would DEFINITELY make a fort for myself though… because I don’t have kids. Then I will recycle it.
2. My New Year’s resolution is to do something with my life.
3. The chair will help me concentrate on my studies so I can move out and stop being a leech on my parents. :(

1. Sit under the box “just so” while watching a scary movie. At the first sense of impending fright drop it over me.
2. I’m going to work less; which is a problem because I’m the cheerleader at the bottom-right of the pyramid.
3. In the end it will be I who helps the chair; my beautiful butt prints firmly ensconced in the supple fabric and foam.

1. I would draw cars all over it with a sharpie marker
2. Try not to sleep in as much.
3. This chair would help me be more productive and draw more cars for school!

1. Give it to my kids, they love playing in boxes.
2. Win something.
3. Help me have better posture while toiling away at the computer.

1.I always use massive box as the seasonal storage.
hopefully I won’t use it to carry my stuff home from the office…

2.a.to have a wonderful working chair to relief my backache.
b. to learn Japanese.

3.well, I hope it can make my backache go away…

1. Use it as an Escape Cube in the new, more crowded office coming soon.
2. To work out more and sleep at a reasonable time.
3. The chair would help me be refreshed enough to actually want to work out more, and would probably be a good place to sleep too.

1) The box is going to be the best Halloween costume- ever! I’m going to transform it into the Claw Machine, I’ve drawn it up and the box dimensions would work great. Cut out the sides, add the stuffed animals and claw and paint it up real good and Bam! one Awesome, contest winning costume.

2) My 2009 resolution was to get more things done, and not push them off to the future. The Leap and my new office area will be the biggest contribution to that cause. While being comfortable AND Stylish at the same time, what else could you ask for.

3) This chair will help round out my new studio/office space. I’m almost finished with the desk and the Leap is a perfect fit!

Awesome Design, thanks for the chance at winning it!

1. Make a massive playhouse complete with internal amenities for my cat.
2. Get a full-time job in Industrial Design rather than two part-time jobs.
3. When I’m job searching and putting in those long sketching/rendering/CAD/computer hours in my studio it will give me the proper support with my annoying disk herniation!

1)When I was little, my incredibly creative father used an enormous box that held a fully-assembled grill (I know…weird.) to create a TV set for us. It was so huge he cut a door into the back of it for my brothers and I to get in and out of. He painted the outside of it to look exactly like an enormous old TV, and added working knobs so we could ‘change the channel’. We spent no less than a month watching eachother’s ‘shows’ on the cardboard TV, and revisited it for years after when we were really bored. I’d like to recreate that for my cousin Marie, who has a two year old son, and is about to give birth to identical twin boys. She’s going to need something so fun and wonderful for them to play with.
2)My New Years Resolution is to prove myself indispensable at my office. I am determined to continue to learn, improve and challenge myself.
3)In order to be indispensable, I plan to sit in my office for 12 hour days…I’d love to have some support. Hopefully this chair will change my life by enabling me to do my best and succeed!

1. I would cut up the box and make it into a robot costume
2. I plan to push my art skills into the mainstream
3. It would get me out of my small room and I wouldn’t have to sit crouched over on my bed when I make stuff.

1. I would build a fort for my son but it would secretly be for me too.
2. Be healthy and create beautiful things.
3. My $14 ikea chair sucks, no offense ikea.

1. I will give the box away to someone on Craigslist “Free Stuff.” That’s where I got all of my boxes when I moved and that’s where I gave all my boxes after I moved.

2. My New Year’s Resolution 2009 is to be more comfortable!

3. Steelcase Leap would help my life because after being diagnosed with lyme disease for the third time I suffer from extreme arthritis and I am only 30 years young. Plus it would help me achieve my New Year’s resolution!

1. i’ve always wanted to make a cardboard chandelier…

2. to keep doing what i’m doing.

3. it’ll keep me comfy while i sit for hours in front of the screen working towards graduation.

1.) I’d recycle the box. Not much fun, I know, but I have no room for it here.
2.) My New Year’s resolution is to eat and drink healthier. More water and veggies, less soda and chips.
3.) Obviously having the Steelcase will improve my life by giving me less backaches. Also, my husband can use it too when he works from home which means fewer backaches for him and less begging me to rub his back. More me time!

1) I’d cut up the box, cover with patterned paper or fabric and use as cute wall art. Who knows maybe I can sell this fab wall art. Or use in making journals and notebooks.
2) My new years resolution is to stop leaving my dirty laundry pilled up in the corner of our room.
3) The crazy babies wrecked our office chair by twirling each other around in it and who knows what else! So we need one to get down to some real creative business.

I would make a space rocket out of the massive box. Liz and Tristan could use markers to decorate it to look like a suitable rocket.They’ve made plenty of houses out of boxes but never a rocket ship.
My New Year’s resolution is stress less about lack of money. It’s only making me a wreck and not making me any more money.
I spend hours and hours in my truly uncomfortable, cheap desk chair and now my butt is flat as a flitter because of it. So far no hemorroids, though. Thank goodness. Stress is one thing, ‘roids are something else altogether.

1. The box would immediately be commandeered by my cats as a playhouse.
2. My New Year’s Resolution is to finish one of my novels-in-progress.
3. The chair would help me accomplish #2, since my current computer chair is broken, and puts my legs to sleep after an hour or so.

1) I could utilize the box as a console table or something to go with my other furniture: http://www.confusedmatt.com

2) Get more furniture in my place

3) I would no longer be using a plastic folding chair to use my computer - therefore…less back pain..better life!

1. The box would become my 2 year old grand-niece’s Favorite play-item. With her unlimited imagination it will become a Princess-Castle, a stove, a fort, a spaceship, invisible… etc.
2. My resolution this year was no more resolutions - only action!
3. The chair would become my husbands home-away from the couch as he plays his endless computer games…

1) The Box will be a great present for my 7 cats! You can spend a fortune for toys but the box will be the best! 2) My New Years Resolution is to win as many items this year as possible! 3) This Steelcase Leap will prevent me from falling backward out of my computer chair that I now have!

I would use the massive box to build a little fort for my 16 month old grandson. My New Year’s resolution was to quit smoking and I did!! This chair will make my back feel so much better which will change my life for the good!

1. Use it to stabilize the rug under my industrial sewing machine
2. Play with kids more
3. I can finally trash the hand-me-down, ugly, itchy, uncomfortable desk chair I currently use.

1 — Enclose massive space.
2 — Be less of a fat-ass.
3 — I want it.

1. I will make a clubhouse with my son and nephews
2. My New Year’s Resolution is to get on the treadmill and actually use it.
3. The Steelcase Leap will keep me from developing daily back pain, as the chair at my computer now is a rickety green wooden chair I bought at a yard sale for $5.

1) The box would be made into a giant stovepipe hat, which I would wear at every formal occasion.
2) Help others more, make that the goal of my day.
3) My desk chair was picked up off the sidewalk; I think it’s plotting against my back and growing shorter whenever I’m away.

1. I would build a fort for me.. ugh I mean with the kids.
2. New Year’s resolution- get fit- original I know but a good one nonetheless.
3. Hopefully it will improve my posture! I get teased a lot for my bad posture and the chair would prevent my mom from hitting my back to stand up straighter!

1. I will make a homemade version of one of those ridiculously priced cat scratch things.
2. I dont make new years resolutions. why wait till a new year to change or do something?
3. It wont really help my life in any appreciable way (its a chair) except make my home office look nicer.

1. I’d make the box into a fort for my two silly cats.
2. I have resolved to start exercising again.
3. My bad hip would love this compfy and ergonimally designed chair. I don’t believe in the concept of no pain no gain!

My cat never gives us a choice no matter what the size of the box is he gets right in it and if it’s a big box he’s amused for hours, he hides, and jumps out at what ever walks by, me the dogs, husband. Arthur the cat will run very fast around the house then take a huge leap into his current box. My news years resolution is to stick to my exercises every single day. Thanks for the contest, I’d love to win. The Steelcase Leap Office Chair would make my life so easy and also add to my exercise routine by scooting backwards in the chair, it helps to strengthen

With the box, I’d cut holes in it and give it to my cat.
He will be enthralled with his new home/playground.
He is box crazy.

2009 resolution?
Have more FUN!! You only live once.

The chair will be a godsend because I already
have lumbar problems and this chair
looks fantastic!

1. Fort/House for the kids
2. cook, instead of going out, more
3. won’t have to sit on stacked crates anymore

Big boxes are great as kid’s forts. First, I’d let them decorate it. Then, set it up for them to play with along with a sheet over the kitchen chairs.

My New Year’s resolution is to have more fun this year than last.

I was injured and need a more comfortable office chair. The Steelcase chair would definitely solve that problem.

1. I would either paint something on it (I’m not promising a masterpiece though…) or break it down and use the pieces to create a really massive fort/castle/hideaway.

2.My new years resolution is to put the effort into my school work that it deserves. The chair would obviously help me concentrate better, and hopefully make it so I can sit down in the same spot for more than an hour at a time.

3.The chair will help me in my endeavor to complete my college studies, maybe help me correct my dreadful posture, and increase my productivity so that all of this happens faster.

1) turn it into my think tank - paint it to look like a modern prefab home, install some surround sound…and just chill till inspiration hits
2) live each day more postive and creative than the day before, not letting unfortunate people and happenings bring me down.
3) x-husband gets the desk & chair…it’d b such a positive way to start off the new year and my new single life…designing in style!

live in it.

1) I will attempt to build a huge origami crane from the massive box even though I may fail on the first crease.

2) My 2009 resolution is to pay it forward, but not necessarily from someone receiving my current chair since that would be bad in itself and come back to bite me.

3) The chair will save my arse from looking like all the others ones in the office who have remained moribund in their own outdated chairs.

1. I’d give it to my neighbor who’s son is the perfect age for fort-building. Then I’d photograph the two of them building it. Knowing them they’d come up with something completely unexpected.
2. My New Years Resolution would be to take more care in my daily routine, by changing it up and being more adventurous.
3. The chair would replace the chair I use here at the office. It’s like everyone else’s, broke one way or another. I love the idea of having the bad-ass chair in the office. Everyone asking if they can sit in it and I’d say, “no way go win your own damn contest sheesh”!

1. I’d use it to move my stuff, I’m moving to a new smaller location.
2. Remember all my family’s birthdays and send them homemade cards.
3. The leap chair will save my body. When I’m at the computer at home I sit in a cheap Ikea office chair, my back hurts after 10 minutes and I can’t stay still since it’s so uncomfortable.

1. I may use the box to put my wife and I’s Octopus Halloween costumes in. They are in separate boxes now and I would like them together. I could also cut it down to form a new structure. It really depends how thick it is.
2. I want to start using the internet effectively. I don’t like sitting in front of a computer to fill out all of the website things that I should in order to improve my business.
3. Since I now work in front of a computer I tend to sit for a long time and my chair becomes very uncomfortable no matter what position I sit in. It seemed fine in the store, but really there is much left to be desired. Maybe this fancy new chair would do the job right.

1. I would decorate it with my toddler and turn it into the most pimped out toddler ride ever…neighbor kids with their fancy escalades will be envious.

2. Be more organized!

3. If I were to win this, I would gift it to my very hard working husband who complains of achy muscles after pushing papers in his office for 10+ hours per day. This Steelcase Leap would be a lifesaver! Trust me, his comfort would drastically improve the overall quality of my life!

I would take the box downtown and drop it off so someone could use it for temporary lodgings. My New Years Resolution is to make sure my dogs get walked at least five times a week. And as to what would be done with the chair - I would sit it in at my computer - of course. What is anyone else going to do with it? I would love to have a new chair. I need one desperately.

I would build a fort with the grandkids. Boxes always seem to peak their interest more than some of the expensive items I have bought them. Please count me in. Thanks!!

1. Let my kids make a fort out of it.
2. Improve marriage, discipline the kids better, lose weight, save money
3. My back wouldn’t be killing me all the time from this old metal folding chair I’m using!

2009, time to get down.

1. Make a sweet Platypus 3-D Bones Puzzle, you know like the Dinosaur ones? The Platypus needs some love.
2. 2009 Resolution: To assist in other people’s resolutions. I’m aiding one friend so far, by trying to draw something new everyday. For creative sanity.
3. Convince my aerospace friends that the Leap is the model that should be installed into their newest space vehicles. But really— I’d sit on it comfortably, whilst drawing and painting hopefully for hours.

thx.

1. I would use the box as a sled, should slide pretty well in this new England Snow. I have 6 children, and not enough sleds, so this would be perfect!

2. I work from home, in my chair, at the computer and phone for 8 hours a day. My children have in their younger years creatively painted on it with markers, and their favorite WHITE OUT!! I would love a new unpainted chair, and my back is always killing me, so this would be a lifesaver for me!

Thanks!

1. Maybe as a shelter on the ice to fish? How big is this box anyway?
2. work less, play more
3. give my tired back a rest

1. Recycle it
2. lose weight
3. I could get rid of my old office chair that I bought used for $10, and whose arms are falling off.

[1] Old box = New playground for cat.
[2] Resolution? >>> Try to be cool.
[3] How this helps? >>> It’ll make me cool. Way too cool.

I love this chair!

1. I would make an eco-friendly spa cover out of the box. I would have made a dog house if the naughty girls hadn’t chewed up the spa cover.

2. New Year’s Resolution: Debut my first furniture collection.

3. My new Leap Chair will save me $130 a month in chiropractic visits and increase my productivity so that I keep my New Year’s Resolution. :)

1. I would first apologise to the box for the dogmatic nature of the NOTCOT readership and then I would politely ask the box what it wanted to do.

2. To understand that loving an inanimate object does not constitute a “proper” relationship.

3. By proving that Objectophilia can be reciprocal.

I would stuff my dirty laundry in the massive box and forget about it. My New Years Resolution is wear less clothes. The Steelcase Leap would keep me on my tush more to enter more contest (he he)

1Ok what would I do with this I would repurpose it and make it a huge painted stand up door/screen so I could cover the piles
2.Ok just getting healthier- eating, and learning not to lay down or slouch at the computer

3. I would actually love to have this chair for my husband he works from home on the computer when he can- the other time he is in bed..he is a disabled veteran and has severe back and other problems and this honestly would help him sit in comfort and this could handle his weight also. It is a beautiful chair and if it helped him sit up and do a little bit more each day instead of laying and sleeping I would be in heaven

1. I would take the box to work for my prek class.
2. To walk my dogs everyday.
3. It would save my aching back and make me less grouchy.

1) Give box to my little boy so he can use it as a creative tool. Then, recycle it.
2)Resolution is to step away from the computer every once in a awhile to help my tension filled shoulders and back. Also to walk more.
3) The leap will SAVE me! My chair bites and since I practically live in it my wish for a new chair would be granted.

1. I have a 5 year old who would gladly turn the box into a clubhouse!
2. To be happier.
3. I have 2 computer chairs in our home office. I prefer one and my husband prefers the other. I get tired of switching chairs after he uses the computer. This chair I am so sure would please both of us. I wouldn’t have to play musical chairs anymore!

1. I will recycle the box. Yes, it’s boring, but it’s true. I try to recycle everything I can. I’d love to discover a cure for cancer in it first, but since I have no lab, research, or funding, that’s probably not going to happen.

2. I don’t make resolutions, but I am trying to spend more time with my family and less time on the internet. I know the internet doesn’t love me and won’t miss me when I go. Well, it might, but… I’m going to spend time with my family now… right after I finish this.. and then something else…

3. I spend a lot of time on the computer partly because I do taxes and partly because I just do. (See #2) A new chair will be a big help because mine broke several years ago and I haven’t replaced it yet. Why? I’m cheap. I admit it. My chair is held together with rubber bands… or at least the arm rest is. The other two computer chairs in the house aren’t so lucky. The seat fabric blew apart on both of them before we inherited them and my sons have broken the back on one. (The back is held on by rope and some boy scout knots.) By comparison, my broken chair is in pretty good shape, but I’d still love a nicer new one so my husband can use mine and my sons can have his old one to “break in.” Yes, it would be nice to give them the new chair, but I’m the one who uses it most (see #2 again and the first part of #3…) Anyway, my arm hurts from the rubber bands and it’s not particularly comfortable, so I would love a new chair.

4. I know there’s no #4, but… thanks for the sweep. I’d really love to win a new chair!

1. Build a lemonade stand
2. Finally launch a lemonade stand
3. Straighten out my spine

1. use this massive box as the seasonal storage or paint it plant Flowers or Veggies in it.

2. Stress less and Never give up … Never surrender :)

3. It will save me $85 a Month, because this is what it cost me to see a Chiropractor for lower Backpain.

I babysit kids in my home, so we’d definitely make it a “play box;” I don’t make New Year’s resolutions, and the 4 people in our house who use our “soon to be worn out” computer chair, would be ever so grateful to win one of your beautiful chairs!!

I’d use the box as a huge doghouse for my dogs.
Resolution is to lose weight, already 20#’s there!
This chair will change my life because this would be undeniably “Dad’s Chair” no sharing! haha!

1). I would recycle the box (for realz).

2). This year I’m resolved to make no more resolutions, I’ll find my own solutions for who I am and who I will become.

3). As a graphic designer I sit at my desk ten hours a day, I love my work but my chair is a broken hand-me-down from my old guitar teacher’s son’s school.

Here’s to hoping!

1. I would recycle it.
2. My resolution is mainly to get financially organized.
3. This chair would be excellent for our guest bedroom/office. My husband works from home and this chair would do wonders for his back.

Simply Recycle it for a greener environment

1) The massive box would be used as a makeshift closet. I would split it open then cover it with fabric and use it as a storage closet.
2) My New Year’s Resolution is to pick a spot from my top 10 places to see before I die, and go see one!
3) The Steelcase Leap will improve my life, by improving my posture and overall health/well being. Nothing in my office is ergonomic, and it’s where I spend the most time. Hunching over to view my monitor is doing me absolutely no good.

1. Puppet Theater - Because the kidlet is always putting on skits… let’s give her a venue!

2. My main resolution is to become more organized… track the little things I sometimes forget.

3. I’m changing my artistic focus from fiber arts to miniature metal sculpture, which in my case means more sitting. I could really use a decent chair while hunched over the workbench.

1) I have 2 kids. A big box has no bounds to them. I’ll find them exaughsted by the end of day, passed out in it.

2) My resolution is to not work so much and spend more time with the family.

3) My current office is comprised of a conference table and a chair that you can set the height and sloooooowly sinks down (over the course of an hour or so) so before you know it you are set at the lowest setting. I swank new chair would fix that.

1. Storage, storage, storage
2. Payoff credit card debt
3. Make my computer hours more comfortable

1.) I’d make this into a giant toroise origami masterpiece
2.) If I win, then my 2009 resolution would have to be learning the art of origami.
3.) This chair would definitely improve the comfort and quality of my computer experiences. However, ignoring the family might cause some problems.

1. Build fort, but no kids… hmmm, maybe just build a fort from which to startle the kitten.
2. Try to stay away from New Year’s Resolutions, given the guilt of failing, but I have actually joined the local gym… coincidence? No, peer pressure ;)
3. Finally, good chairs are the most important part of a web-industry worker; and this looks like a brilliant accompaniment to my slipped discs!

1) I would definitely fill the box and donate to charity - although cardboard boxes are such fun to play with!
2) I am committed to working on debt reduction and quality family time.
3) The Steelcase Leap would go toward helping to save either my husband’s or my backs. We could actually work on both as the chair is so adjustable and we work opposite schedules. I can only dream…..

1) Use it to lounge in.
2) To win this chair
3) I will no longer sit on the floor.

1. I would save it until October 31st, cut holes in the bottom for my legs, then walk around the neighborhood disguised as a MASSIVE BOX and trick or treat until the box was full of Halloween candy. Then, after that, the MASSIVE BOX would go to a recycling center and I would go to a fat farm.
2. My resolution is to cut down on sweets. (I love’em)
3. The steel case leap chair wouldn’t just help my life. It would change it. While I sit at my computer and window shop on the Internet, my old bones wouldn’t creak so much, my posture (which is somewhat like a gargoyle now) would improve drastically and it would make my neighbor who has the best of the best of everything would look upon me with envy.

1 I would save it for packing to move
2 my resolution is to stay on my medication
3 I’m hoping that it helps me with my back problems

I could use the box for the kid’s next halloween costume ha!
I don’t make resolutions…I just try to do well all year.
This chair would replace the $10 plastic one I got from Ikea that only covers about half of my back!

1) I would cut it up and make a slide for my grandson 2) total make over 3) admire the chair till I make my weight lost goal.

1. Charity…I would fill it with donated items.
2. As always I have resolved to be as nice a person as I can be.
3. I am using a folding chair..what an improvement this would be.

1. give the box to the local daycare and let the kids have at it.

2. resolution get a better chair. mine is stationary and real small. geez my back hurtz.

3. make my back better. then ill need a new desk to go with it.

1. I would use it for seasonal storage
2.My 2009 res. would be to straighten out my finances
3.My computer chair is broke it wont lock into place so you have to sit really low and reach up to type so it hurts my back and shoulder’s if I am on it to long.

I would flatten it and use it for when I have to crawl under the car.
My New Years resolution is to forgive everybody.This chair would improve my life by saving my aching back.

I have so many back problems, I believe this chair would really improve my quality of life since I sit at my computer about 10 hours a day for work. And my kids would love to play in the big box!

1. Fill it with items to donate to charity.
2. Make 2009 a good year. Only focus on things I can control.
3. Better chair = better work area.

Several things come to mind about the box… being up north, this would make a great sled for tobogganing down the hills…or how bout outside dining for 2 or 4? add a space heater and your good to go.

My resolution is to make sure my mother is loved each day in what could be the last days of her life.

The Steelcase would be wonderful to alleviate all those aches and pains after that day of sledding or shoveling.. being able to relax comfortably in the office would help to be more focused at and definately would be appreciated!

1) I would fill it with cotton wool and stick my feet into it every once in a while. When I get bored with that, I am going to tear it to pieces and recycle it.

2) My main resolution is to become more effective with my time, gain up on my design skills and use them and my web developer skills to make some money and buy a macbook.

3) I’m sitting on a cheap Leap chair which can’t cope with the amount of sitting I’m using it for, and therefore it proves uncomfortable after a couple of hours. I think that total relaxation gives way to some design inspiration.

1. What would you do with the massive box?
I would probably keep the shipping carton until the Steelcase Leap warranty ran out sometime way, way, way down the road - be sure to ask me about it then (although I can’t see hanging onto this box forever)…

2. What is your New Year’s Resolution for 2009?
My 2009 New Year Resolution for 2009 is to stay with my weight training and cardio, eat better (the french fries are completely gone), drink more green tea, and spend more time enjoying the company of family anf friends.

3. How will the Steelcase Leap improve you life?
Geeze, that Steelcase Leap chair with the padded headrest looks particularly comfortable (and it might even make my nap time before the computer screen even more “productive” —- shhh…)

1) With a massive box, I would design a personal space for myself - I share my room with a roommate, and some privacy would be great!
2) My new year’s resolution is to be happy and thankful with what I have. As silly and cheesy as it sounds, I often find it difficult to achieve them.
3) I spend about 90% of my day in front of a computer, and my backpain forces me to change my posture every so often. Sitting in the Steelcase Leap will surely stop my routine of having to lie down on my stomach to stop back pain.

1. It would make a great winter camping box (all tricked out in state-of-the-art garbage bags, of course). How big is the box? Maybe we can hide out from the kids…or better yet, send them out…
2. I resolve to be as childish as possible, whenever possible.
3. It would improve my life because I have 6 kids per day hanging off me and my back could use some pampering!

1: kitty fort

2: exercise again

3: computer chair at home

what a great chair

1.Well I guess I can build my kids duplicate version of the White House- dressing my son(9 mos) up as George W and my daughter as Cheney(3 years) and let them try to answer questions from ‘Are you smarter than a fifth grader’.
2. Trying to save up some money this year and find a better job.
3.Ack! Anything would be better than the chair that we got at a garage sale. I can’t lean back too far or I’ll fall over, the wheels are bent out of shape, and my daughter took the liberty of decorating it with permanent marker some time ago. All that and it isn’t a very comfortable chair considering it is for in the kitchen.

My cats LOVE to play in huge boxes. They also get inside and use the sides of it as a scratching post, using their own weight to hold it in place. I have every clever kitties. ;-) I don’t do New Year Resolutions, because I just get depressed when I wake up one day and figure out I’m a failure. LOL Steelcase Leap will improve my life completely by having a proper chair so my neck doesn’t knot up. My current chair doesn’t fit me right, and is not very adjustable. Thanks for the generous contest!

I would make a really cool playhouse for the cats with the box. Actually, I wouldn’t have to do anything and the cats would love it. I would make it look like my house, only smaller.
My New Years resolution is to stress less.
My aching back would love this chair. The chair that I currently use is extremely uncomfortable. If my back felt better, the possiblities of what I could do would be endless.

1. a puppet theater
2. walk more
3. need a chair for my desk do not have one right now

1) I would build a playhouse with my grandson.
2) My resolution is to do the best I can each day.
3) The Steelcase Leap would help my life by having something comfortable at my desk for my bad back instead of the old backless wooden step stool I currently use. It would also be very nice to look at when not in use.

1. I think this chair would help me because i suffer from back pain.
2. My new years resolution would be to work out more often and eat better!
3. I think this would improve my life by making me more comfy while working.

Thanks for the giveaway!

1.) i would poke 5000 small holes into the box, install candles insight and would light the candles until there is world peace…for the next 5000 years
2.) to wait a couple of weeks until everybody has forgotten there new years resolutions and then send reminders out to not to forget their new years resolutions…
3.) to sit comfortable and healthy when I start to poke the 5000 holes into the giant box and to sit even more comfortable and healthy when start sending out emails to billions of people that have forgotten their new years resolution

1. I’d save it to use when I pack the chair for my move in 6 months.

2. To enjoy everyday of the new year.

3. A good like like the Steelcase Leap will stimulate great work out of me.

I work out of a home office and the present office chair is unbelievably uncomfortable.My whole life would change if i won this.

I hope I win.

1. I would make a playhouse
2. Except myself & love me just the way I am
3. By giving it to my husband I hope he’ll be eternally grateful & treat me like the princess I am! LOL

Add to my living space

add more living space

give me more liveable space

1. Save it to live in if the recession continues.
2. Pay my rent until I have to move into ‘the box’.
3. I can sleep in the chair in the box. I will survive!

1. I would take this massive box straight to my office and replace the piece of crap in my cubicle.

2. My new years resolution is to learn a new language (spanish) using rosetta stone!

3. Better posture at work.

1) I would unfold the box, and attach it to a wall in my “Art Room” — Instant Easel — it’s very easy to attach paper to corrugated cardboard, and then paint on. Also, no worries about mess, especially if there’s a “lip” of cardboard on the floor. After a few years, I recycle the cardboard.

2) My new year’s resolution is to make a list of all the projects I’ve been meaning to do for the last 20 years, and commit to either finish them, or give up on them. I also have an ongoing resolution to work on my weight and fitness.

3) The Steelcase Leap chair will help me be more productive by reducing my back pain while I am writing the words and code to finish projects in item 2.

My new years resolution is to get organized and I would store all my holiday items in it.

1. recycle the box.

2. volunteer my services.

3. better posture during long days.

Thanks for the giveaway.

1. Storage
2. lose weight
3. Make my computer hours less painful on my body

1) I have four kids. They would totally build a fort or a rocket ship.
2) Eat out less!
3) My current chair is in an embarrassing shape. I think my computer would finally start taking me seriously if I upgraded to the Steelcase Leap!

1. Fill with clothes to donate.
2. Concentrate more on college
3. I wouldn’t have to spend the majority of my free time in a chair I found in a dumpster.

I’d use the box to fill with items for charity. We’ve adopted an impoverished town in Nebraska that we send clothes and other food and household items to every few months. It would be a great challenge to fill it up and spread some joy and happiness to someone else.

1.seasonal storage 2.be a kinder person 3.it should be kinder to me 56 year old back

1. I’d take the box to the first graders I teach and help them make a classroom playhouse out of it.
2. Same as every year, eat less, lose weight. Hope in 2009 I do better with my resolution.
3. My current chair is 25 years old and it feels it. I’d use the wonderfully comfortable Leap Chair to replace my
old chair so working at the computer would be easier.

Thanks for the contest. Best wishes for a happy & prosperous 2009!

I would let my grandaughters make a playhouse out of the box.
I have a bad back & it would be great to have something that might be comfortable while I work on my computer.
I’m trying to quit smoking this year.

1. I would use the box to store all mygrand daughter’s stuffed toys, she has tons of them!
2. My New Year resolution is to lose 20 pounds by March for my birthday.
3. My current chair is a hand me down from my boss and is probably 15 to 20 years old and is like sitting on a rock with sharp edges.

Charity is my first choice!

My New Years Resolution is a prayer for patience.

I have MS and sitting for any time at a computer is difficult, and sometimes painful. A Steelcase Leap chair would be much more comfortable for longer times.

I live just 15 minutes from Steelcase and many of My Friends used to work there. This chair is amazing…..I would also burn the cardboard in the 0 to 20 below temps this coming week….New years resolution is to clean up My home and live with less and pay off debt and win lots of sweepstakes…My current chair I am the 3rd user and let’s just say it is not the most comfortable…but free…..kaysweep@Iserv.net pick ME

1.)I would give the box to my cat who absolutely loves boxes.
2.)My new year’s resolution is to by nice to every person I know or meet, whether I know them or not.
3.)This would be an awesome chair to have for my work, where I sit 8 hours a day. My current chair is kind of uncomfortable, this would provide much better support.

1) I would use it to store my holiday decorations 2) To exercise more and say a kind word to someone every day 3) It would be such an improvement over my vintage 1970s office chair … UGH!

i would put supply side economics in it
to hide supply side economics from everyone for their safety
alleviate my back problems due to stressing over supply side economics

1. I would definately play in the box with my little boy, my cats & my husband !
2. Stress less. About everything.
3. I would sooo love the chair so I could stop useing the ragged one that I am useing

1. I think my grand-daughters would love to play in the box.
2. Still have to lose my baby weight. . my baby is. .hmmm. .. 27 I think.
3. I have a friend with bad MS too, I might give him the chair. Thanks.

I’d take photos of the box in various places in my hometown
My New Year’s resolution is to do more RAOK
The Steelcase Leap chair would make the hours I spend at the computer totally comfortable.

1) I would keep the box in my office for times when I need to go to my “happy place.”

2) my new years resolution is to learn to cook 1 Indian dish and write more Thank You cards

3)The Stealchase Leap will improve my life by createing a better posture support system for me. When you spend 12-16 hours a day in an office chair, that is critical.

1. Tear in down and make a comfortable floor from it.
2. My resolution was to clean up the crawl space above the mechanics room in my house.It looked like 20 yrs. of collected junk and we’ve only been here a year. With the ceiling being about 4 ft. high and a rough cement floor crawling around for hours was murder.(That’s where the box comes in)
3. I spend about 4-6 hrs. a day entering sweepstakes and sitting in this chair is soooo uncomfortable. (That’s where the Leap Chair comes in). Maybe it could be my lucky charm too!

1. turn it into a castle for my boys to play in
2. lose the baby weight and start a home based business
3. It would be comfortable which would allow me to sit at the computer getting work done more efficiently and comfortably

1. I would attempt to design a chair out of it and then send them the pattern, so that each box could also serve as a sitting device! Or perhaps instead of a chair, I could get a nice ottoman out of it :)

2. Since I lost about 40 pounds last summer and kept it off, this year I wanted to improve my posture - what good is a fit body if one walks around like a neanderthal?

3. Given my new year’s resolution, this almost goes without saying! :) But honestly, I’ve only ever had hand-me-down chairs and in the current economic climate I may need to self-employ myself in creative ways (I’m currently a grad student)… having a Steelcase Leap seems, from the sounds of the reviews, like it would be the best way to set myself up for success!

1. With a box I would set it on fire and forcefully launch it off my deck.

2. My new years resolution is to read more and different books

3. This chair will help the sores on my ass heal from the cheap metal folding chair I was gifted as a moving present.

work hard, eat less…

1. build the most amazing fort for my son…yeah, so he’s only 4 months old, but it’s never too early to have some fortastic fun!
2.my new years resolution for 2009 is to enjoy the mondane, the every day simplicity of life. to enjoy the most precious and to let unimportant things remain unimportant
3.how will it help my life? it would make my body feel good as i surf the net for inspiration

1. I will be moving soon and the box will hold 1/3 of everything I own.
2. I resolve to learn to play the bass guitar!
3. The Steelcase Leap will instantly make me feel like a success even though we all know better.

If I won the i would be a great a help with my back, making it better for me and hopefully easy thepain I have while sitting at my computer.

1. I would use it for a litterbox. You read that correctly. Our two cats’ litter box broke last month and as we’re on a severe budget (I just started my own at home business as a writer), we have been using boxes on large items shipped to our home as the week’s given litter box!
2. To lose weight. Yes, it’s boring and a cliche. But it’s the honest answer.
3. I just started my own business (see #1!), after 20 years of working for ‘the man’ (rich corporate lawyers). I can’t charge much for writing work but the one thing I need is a great chair - so far I’m stuck typing on my laptop on the floor, with my back against the bed. So I would actually use this for work…and if it’s as comfy as it looks, I’d use it for gaming as well. ;-)

1. My grandson and I would fly to the moon the box-like space ship!

2. in 2009 I will stop worrying about how silly I look sitting in a box playing with my grandson and remember how much fun it is to fly to the moon

3. I’ll have a comfortable play to sit and work while my grandson sleeps in the spaceship after a soft landing on the moon

I would give my cats a once in a lifetime, week alone with the box, to play. In the basement of course.

My resolution is to not make any more resolutions, just live my life.

The Steelcase Leap will help my poor back which is becoming less and less upright with each passing year.

Build a fort
Lose weight
My current chair just broke this will replace it

What will *I* get to do with the box? Nothing - my husband will be playing in it as soon as the chair’s out of there :)

This year I’m resolving to use my gym for something more than the hot tub and steam room - maybe I’ll even go upstairs to where they keep all the equipment this year!

I would love to be able to sit and work all day and not be stiff as a board when I try to stand up - the Leap is specially built and designed not just to be awesome looking, but actually comfortable to use!

wow i must say this is a realy nice chair and well i think it would help out ones back a lot . any how please enter me infor this and well i’m one that likes to work realy heard and eat less too lol

I would love this chair so I can enter more lovely contests like yours without back pain.

1-Use the box to take my old chair to the thrift.
2-Live a better life.
3-It would surely help my back, I have spinal stenois

1. oh it would get turned into a fort by the kids I think
2. try to stress out less
3. help my lower back pain!

1.) I would give it to some of my residents in the dorm since they might need it as an art supply. I heard some of their professors make them use card boxes for their projects. Breaking it down would be tough!

2.) I’m hoping to apply myself with job hunting (start early before graduating college). This will take some time because I’m drawn to the big apple. Life would be grand if I get to live there now. I need more internships (if i can’t get a job) and also be more assertive with some people.

3.) The chair would make my new apartment room more cozy and alluring to friends. I’m crossing my fingers and hoping for this to happen, determination is what I need right now.

1. Recycle it.
2. To start running again.
3. It will help me with #2, since my recovering back will be more comfortable.

It would be sweet to have a comfortable chair that doesn’t fall apart every time I sit in it.

1. use it for storage
2. exercise more…even while sitting in a chair :)
3. I’m already looking for a new chair, current one is falling apart…so hopefully I’ll win it!
Thanks :)

The box would make a dandy playhouse for my granddaughters when they visit (they’ll be here the 4th of July), I could even cut out windows and hang some old curtains, they’d love it.

Box to give to my wife,to pack up as she goes, and a new chair
to start my new life…I need something for comfort..hey its a start…

Thanks

1) I’d use the massive box as a huge cat toy. My kitty would be all over it.

2) My New Year’s resolution would have to be not sitting in the office chair so long. Have to get up and get the circulation going every 30 minutes or so.

3) The Steelcase Leap would help my life by alieviating my lower back pain.

I will use the box to provide hours of entertainment for my son. My New Year’s resolution is to make my life better; make a better connection with my family; declutter my life; and take better care of myself. This chair would help me take care of myself by providing me care for my back.

1) I will take the massive box to my 3-year-old daughter’s preschool and let the kids play with it until it falls apart. Then I will break it down and recycle it.
2) My main New Year’s Resolution is to write daily, which I used to do.
3) The Steelcase Leap will improve my life by allowing my to finally use my laptop ergonomically. I spend hours a day using my computer scrunched up on the couch. If I win, I will take this couch outside and list it on craigslist as a free item. I will switch to computing in a chair with a little table for my laptop.

1. add duct tape and make a kayak
2. learn to kayak
3. hopefully I will save hundreds every month on chiropractor visits my insurance no longer covers

the massive box can be recycled at work (we have a cardboard crusher)
I don’t make new years resolutions as I don’t believe in lying to myself !!!
if I won the chair I hope its strong enough for my big butt, I broke one of the coasters off my current chair…to much damn Christmas cookies

1.) definitely make a dance floor to practice country dancing
2.) Resolution— win this chair so I don’t get the pain in my neck & shoulders from too many hours at the computer.
3.) I’ll get more work done is less time and be happy about it.

What a great chair, I would definitely take it to the office to replace my crappy chair but the box would stay at home for an awesome fort. I might let the kids in if they are good but it would be my sanctuary!

(1) I would use the box as a bed for my brother with no padding if he dares to come visit ever again. (2) My New Years resolution is to stick to my diet and exercize regime to stay as healthy as possible. (3) This chair looks as if it would be a godsend to my back. I have spinal stenosis and it really hurts after sitting for a while. I need good support and this one has it. Thanks for the opportunity to win one.

1. I think I need to fill the box with things to donate….
2. New Years Resolution: To get organized and be more productive.
3. The Steelcase Leap will take away my back pain; which will increase my
productivity! 17.8%, I’ll bet it’s higher than that!

1. I could cut the box up into pieces and draw on them and send them to people in the mail. My friend JFish from Portland does the same thing and art that you can mail as is, is a great idea!

2. My resolution for 2009 is to become more awesome! Moving out of New Jersey into New York City has been a great step! DJing full time for a living is a great way to meet people! Meeting film makers, animators and comedians has been good! Trying to do my best by reading psychology books to get a leg up in one of the most competitive cities in the world!!!

3. Having moved out and donating most of my furniture to friends and family, the only thing in my bed room is my bed and turntables. I need to rebuild my workspace for graphic art and music production. A bad ass looking chair would be a great start!!!

1. I would use the box to store shipping materials in or I would cut it down to create smaller boxes to ship pieces of art in.
2. My resolution for 2009 is to go to the gym 4 days a week, eat healthier and take care of myself better
3. This amazing chair would allow me to have better posture while working, which would be part of taking better care of myself, thus I would feel better when doing everything else in my life!

1. With a box like the massive one, i would make at least 20 small cubes with numbers for my little boy to play (because it’s great to see how he transform anything with a cube shape into a new multi-toy)

2. I must become into architect! c’mon! i just need to finish the thesis!

3. To help my life is very general, to help my back it’s specific!. The Steelcase leap and all its pieces would do 14 hours of communitarian aid…to me.

1.for sure make a breakdance floor! what a great idea. or a Wii floor.
2. My resolution is to start using only natural products for skincare and body care for the whole family this year. so far so good! we already are good with cleaners and such, but it is hard with everything else!
3. I currently don’t have an office chair the moves, and mine is hard and whoa HARD, and doesn’t scoot on the carpet, well it is a chair from a card table, so this would be terrific! I just got my home business really going so this would be the best timing!

thanks so much for the chance!

1. I would donate it to a preschool that uses them for projects and dramatic play.
2. Get a second job, buy a new laptop.
3. I currently use a folding chair as my office chair. So yeah, I need a upgrade.

I would use that awesome box for storing all that “stuff” I’ve been saving in my garage, that’s thrown all over the place. My New Years resolution is to clean that said garage from top to bottom and sort what I’m keeping. Then at the end of the day I can sit on my wonderful and comfortable Steelcase Leap chair to rest my sore back and enter more contests, such as a house cleaning service or a gardener. That would improve my life beyond words.

1. find a great big hill and roll down inside the box
2. lose 70 pounds
3. I work nights and have a sore back, this will help relax me tired bones and arse

Stash it in the storeroom across the hall with large indelible letters saying NOT GARBAGE/ PLEASE SAVE!!!! Then I would proceed to empty my two 9-foot tall stands of bookcases into it so I could fold them up, remove the rug beneath AND FINALLY LAY DOWN THE LAMINATE FLOORING I BOUGHT THREE MONTHS AGO in a great sale.

It’s late and I’m witless.

I gave 1) what I’d do with a big box.

2) My New Year’s resolution is to rejoin the world after being invalided out for three years with assorted annoying surgeries.

3) The chair is spectacular and I could never afford it normally. The one I’m sitting on now I bought with an inheritance and that was long ago, the arms have broken off, and now bits of the seat seem to be going as well. I need a new chair…this one is a luxury beyond belief.

I’d make walls for my office.

I really need to fill it up with stuff to send to the Salvation Army. one of my resolutions is to join the Y. Too many of my hours are spent sitting in a hard oak chair to work. I’m starting to bend over like a little old lady!

1. The box will be a fort or whatever for the grand kids.
2. I am going to get my small business running better throughout the year.
3. I am always looking for chairs that would help my sore back, this chair could help solve some of my back problems.

1. I would use the box for storage
2. My New Year’s Resolution is to work out more and get in better shape.
3. The Steel Case Leap would replace my worn out Ikea chair. It would look great and be so much better for my back.

1. I know my crafty daughter would make a beautiful house for the cats, who all would love to play in it.
2. NY’s resolution? To stop eating sweets
3. I’m at my desk from 5 in the morning until 8 at night. I slouch a little too much

1. I would give it to my 2 year old and 5 year old to play with. They accomplish amazing things with small boxes and I cannot imagine how they would take it to the next level. When they are done with it I would recycle it
2) my new years resolution is not to make any more new years resolutions
3: I would probably put my name on the chair (like engraved) then bring it to work, since I have a crappy chair at work, this might actually make me want to go to the office more and make me a better employee and maybe get me a raise.

1> I could use the massive packaging to make a bookcase/cupboard for my studio which is currently devoid of any furniture.

2> Sleep less work more!

3> A Steelcase would be of IMMENSE HELP in my career as I currently work sitting on a broken wooden stool and an old television stand as my working desk in my new studio. I need a nice chair desperately! :D

OH TO TO HELP MY MY POOE BACK

I would put my 2008 files in it and put it in the attic.
Resolution - Spend more time with my kids.
I am a CPA so during tax season, I am in the chair 12 hours a day.

1. I would use it to store a pile of the kids toys long enough for them to forget about them so I can get rid of them! After that, I would probaby use it for storage!
2. My favorite resolution this year is to organize my life - At Home, At Work, Everywhere!
3. I sit in an office for 8 hours every day. Then I come home and spend several hours on my home computer. My back gets very sore from leaning forward all the time. I think this chair would make my “at-home time” at little more comfortable and hopefully ease the tension that I have in my back every night!

1.) Trap myself inside the box so I can think, w/o any distractions… possibly live in it from time to time..

2.) Overcome every hardship 2009 has to offer.

3.) Help bring my spirit up.

1. art projects - I would use it for as many art projects as I could dream up.

2. laugh everyday

3. I could lose the hard mahogany chair I currently sit in. Yea!

1.I would definitely fill it to the brim with giveaway items to charity.
2. My resolution is to embrace uncertainty
3. I really need this chair cuz mine had a major blowout and is really stressing my back out!

thanks

1) It would start out as a playhouse for the cats. If sturdy enough, might get extra openings.
2) I’ll sit in front of my pc’s properly, instead of slouching.
3) The chair would position me for less eyestrain and possibly less strain on my hands.

Thanks for hosting this neat giveaway.

1. I would let my grandchildren have their way with the box and a bunch of crayons; if I’ve learned anything from parenting 4 girls, its that boxes are the best and cheapest way to keep kids busy!

2. I want to make more time for myself. My parents are both not well, mom has alzheimers and dad recently had a heart attack. I look after both of them and also try to get them separated to give them time alone. I stil have one daughter at home, she’s 17 (what more can I say); so yes, more “me” time.

3. Oh, this beautiful chair would benefit me so much. I have Raynauds (bad circulation to extremeties), psoriatic arthrits and fybromialgia; maybe with this perfect erconomic chair, some of my physical pain would be relived!

Thanks for the most awesome of giveaways!

I would fill it with all the items we continue to amass that we no longer need and donate to Salvation Army. Everyone should consider giving in this manner.

My New Years resolution is to get my whole family up and moving so that we can get fit and do so together.

The Steelcase Leep chair will improve my life by giving me a much better not only looking chair, but better for my body chair. A feel good chair makes for a feel good mind! It would go great with my Steelcase desk too!

1. Let my cats use it for a giant playhouse…they love hiding and playing
in cardboard boxes.
2. Live a more healthy and greener lifestyle.
3. This chair…would hopefully be the answer for my bad back…I’m always
moving around in my current chair trying to find a comfortable position.

1. I would put my old $39.00 office chair in the box and send to a museum that can display it as a modern torture device. 2.My resolution as a one man small online business is to work longer and harder this year to offset the economic slow down but still keep quality time for family and friends. 3. With debilitating cronic lumbar back pain and sciatica the Steelcase Leap chairs ergonomics will decrease the pain and need for medication and help fulfill my resolution in #2 above.

1. Break it down to use for breakdancing.

2. To breakdance more. It does wonders for your endurance and upper body strength and always attracts the ladies.

3. Good posture has always been an ongoing battle through out my life and the SteelCase Leap would do wonders. Plus I could graduate from using that wobbly wooden stool.

I would love this chair so much that I would sleep in it. Nighty Nite to all.

I would use the packaging to back pictures and photographs in a multitude of frames I have to decorate my walls. I have the usual resolutions and that is to shape up and be happier. This chair would help me tremendously as I do spend a significant time sitting and have experienced back pain. Thanks for a great giveaway!

would love a new chair but it would be hard to give up my old one.

1. I would cut the box down to size and attach a thin layer of foamboard with spray glue to one side. I would then cover the foamboard with a nice fabric securing it on the back with staples. Attach a picture hanging bracket to the center back. Then wrap pretty ribbons across the front (also stapling on the back) in any pattern I like to slide photographs under to display. A large board would be fantastic.

2. I’m going to smile and say hello to everyone who looks my way this year.

3. I will be in the lap of luxury with a new Steelcase chair. After all, everyone knows steelcase products are the best and I feel that I also need the best I can get to enjoy life at my computer.

1. This time of year, the best use for the giant box would be to make the coolest sled EVER! Slick cardboard is great for sliding down hills!

2. My new year’s resolution is to get leaner and greener. With the economy the way it is, I’ve decided to ramp up something I’ve been working toward anyway - getting leaner in my financial life. I’ve always helped the companies I’ve worked with run leaner and do more with less, but I haven’t been too concerned about doing the same thing in my personal world. Also as part of that effort, I’m working toward greening up my financial world by doing away with all of that paper that hits my mailbox every month.

3. I’ve recently started a small business dedicated to providing support services and resources to other small business people. Finances are tight, especially with the start up, so when it came to getting a chair for my home office, I had to be focused more on price point than on comfort for long days. My workday revolves around my clients’ needs, so some days I sit for 10-12 hours a day. Because of that, I’ve been forced to jury rig different kinds of cushions and such just to make it through the day without an aching back and/or tailbone. The Steelcase Leap would be FABULOUS to win.

Thanks for a great giveaway!!!

So does this just go to a random name? or the best entry. I’d like to see a clarification of that in the next cotcot contest, thanks!

and here’s my answers:

1. Build a soundproofing setup for my loud indoor hydroponic herb garden that I got as a wedding present. It is currently hard to sleep in the other room and it makes my cat a little nervous.

2. Don’t get any older.

3. As a freelance designer, and a nerd I spend way too much time in my chair at home. This will help me not feel like I’m destroying my back with a cheap Target chair.

1. use it to make an installation in my hallway, maybe some sort of canopy.
2. to be more spontaneous.
3. spending many days solid in my room drawing away (I’m an architecture student) means I need to be as comfortable as possible as this helps me stay focussed.

1) not too exciting but I probably would use the box for storage.
2) I want to lose weight.
3) My office/computer chair was used when I got it several years ago..I really could use a replacement esp with my bad back.

1. Make a robot with my kids.

2. Have fun and enjoy life.

3. I never sit properly in a chair and it hurts my back. This looks like it would help.

build a fort

1. I would freecycle the large box to a family that needs moving boxes.
2. This year, I have resolved to get more organized.
3. I work in a home office, and my current chair is on it’s last legs, which only contributes to the back pain I experience. This steelcase chair would be a welcomed replacement and backsaver.

1) I would use the box as a container to stash the rest of my cardboard box collection until we move again (or have other needs for cardboard boxes). Unless my husband got to it first - he’d break it down and somehow fit it into the recycle bin.
2) My new year’s resolution is pretty common: I want to eat healthier. Specifically, add more fresh and local produce into my diet. It will give me more energy and keep me healthy far into the future!
3) I spend probably way too much time in front of a computer, at work and at home - a nice chair with good back support could save me many knotted muscles and future back problems.

1.Would use it for my grandkids toys
2.Spend more time with my family
3.Won’t have to sit so close to the floor or hunched over.

1) Filled with items and donate to charity.
Well, I always do. Now that I think about
it, I think I need the box more than the
chair. LOL
2) My New Year’s resolution is to loose more
weight, be active, and stay healthy.
3) Well, since I have this tall steal folding/cold
stool, this Leap Chair will definitely
be welcome! Having this tall stool, I can’t help
but crouch while I’m typing. I’m going to have a
major back pain soon.

1) portable photo booth
2) gain 25 pounds
3) sitting on the floor with keyboard on the lap is not productive. having a chair - a Leap-Chair would help me to become productive.

1) Having done this for the last two years when I find a big box is to decorate it at holiday season and place it at a shopping center with a sign to donate small toys. Once filled, we take it to a children’s hospital and donate the toys to the children who have to be in the hospital during holiday season.

2) My resolution would be to help my husband with his diet. He has found out that he is diabetic and maybe I can help him with wellness.

3) What would I do with a Steelcase leap chair. It has so many great features that the best place would be where my husband and I share a room that has a computer and my sewing machine. We could share it to what ever task was at hand.

1. I would help my grandson make a big fort out of it and once we are done with it, I would take it to the recycling center.

2. My New Years resolution is to exercise more, eat healthier and live a better life.

3. My family would be envious of me if I won that chair. I would have to put an alarm on it to keep them from switching chairs on me.

1. I’d make a fort with the kids.
2. Read more.
3. I would love to read blogs and surf the web in the comfort of a nice chair instead of this bun-numbing, clunky, falling apart, excuse for a chair I’m using now. This would help my life so much because when I get out of my current excuse for a chair I’m a irritated, achy, cranky pants. With the new chair I could be the blissful, glowing, happy pants that I know is still in here somewhere.

1. I would use the box for some old school break dancing
2. 2009 - the year of giving back
3. this chair would save my butt!

1. That would be a great box to put all of the clothes in that I am bringing to the Rescue Mission.
2. Live in the moment.
3. Since starting this week I get to work from home 2 days a week, I could replace my cheap desk chair that I can’t just seem to get adjusted right - I would be more comfortable and more productive!

1) I will use it to store all the junk from last year that i’m not using this year!
2) Get some abs
3) Use it to make out on after I get the abs and attract more ladies!

1. I would build a cardboard bookshelves for all my books.
2. My new year resolution to be a hot and sexy optometry student.
3. This chair will put me right at the table for an all-nighter student.

1. I would give it to my seven year old sister for her to make a fort out of with her friends, and when they get bored of it (or it falls apart, more likely), I would recycle it.
2. My new years resolution is to stop pirating things off the internet, so far, I’ve held to it, and I plan on continuing this newfound noble lifestyle.
3. Considering my family’s financial standpoint, I won’t even bother to ask for a new chair, but also, I don’t really need one. However, I’m sure that my dad could use a new chair, and if he doesn’t, I’ll ask my mom if anyone at her workplace could use it. It no one wants it, I guess I’d use it. I’m pretty sure that my mom will accept it because her business is sinking with the economy and she can’t really afford to buy new chairs.

1 Puppet House for Childrens Hospital.
2. Volunteer more.
3. It will help with my back pain.

1- the box will either become a divider in my room that doubles as storage or will be filled with things to give to charity.. I have bags ready for charity piled in a corner but its not visually pleasing and may fall any minute.
2-new years resolution- experience new and memorable things and stay strong willed against peer pressure
3-this chair would help my life because if I won this chair I would be giving it to my dad or brother who sit in a chair for practically the full time they are awake… miracles what a chair could do to improve their day and possibly their health/backs/butts

1) Let my dog have a blast attacking it, then take the remains to the recycling bin
2) My New Years resolution is to complete last years resolutions, to lose weight, learn Spanish, & get organized.
3) This chair would help my life because I’d let my wife use it and it would help her back, if she’s happier I’m happier.

1. I would make it into a castle, or a “suit of armor” for my nephew who is in love with all things medieval right now.
2. My new years resolution is to keep up my 92.8% average while finishing my toxicology degree so that I will get into medical school next year.
3. It would improve my life because I spend so much time at my desk studying that I get compressed nerves in my spine and have yet to find a chair that I can afford that doesn’t hurt my back.