Throw Pillow Madness

My hubby and I have been shopping for new living room furniture lately. After trudging through store after store, warding off salesperson after salesperson (my gosh, they're like locusts!!) I've been left with one question: what's with all of the pillows?? Only by about the third store did I realize that the reason all of the sofas we'd been trying out lately were so uncomfortable was because each had about nine-thousand pillows on it. So at the third store, we pulled all of the extemporaneous pillows off the sofas and started to find sofas we liked and thought were comfortable.

So what's the story with all of these pillows? Am I missing something? Is this another instance of my Hapless Homemaker self shining through? Obviously these pillows aren't meant for comfort--when they're on a sofa, they leave about two inches of space for a body to sit...and lets face it, I've got way more than two inches of body to seat! To get at all comfortable on these sofas with all of the extra pillows, you have to remove the pillows which results in a giant pile of pillows on the floor. And even my Hapless Homemaker self knows that a pile of anything on the floor isn't good!

Which brings me to interior fashion and design in general. I know most women out there are into this stuff--obviously someone buys all of these pillows--but I just don't get it. Because not only are there extra pillows on sofas, there are also extra pillows on beds. Again, it seems to lead to a pile of pillows on the floor, or do some folks sleep with all of those pillows?

I evidently need to start investing in pillow manufacturing--it's where the real money is, I'm sure of it. Meanwhile, I think I'm going to accept the fact that as a domestically challenged individual, I'm just not going to understand the point of the throw pillow. Whew...I need to lay down...where's my pillow?...