Stolen Sofas

Overview

This article is sponsored by our partners, Stolen Rum.

Call up four of your strongest, shiftiest friends and deliver the following instructions. This Thursday, March 27, at 3pm, turn up at Work-Shop, 80 George Street, Redfern.

Why? Because Stolen Rum is inviting you to steal sofas from them. No strings or rum bottles or even nips attached. All you have to do is rock up early enough to number among the first 50 thieves and voila! You’ll have a brand new addition to your living quarters.

The only tricky part is that Stolen won’t be doing any delivering, so you’ll need either a bunch of gym addicts or a mate with a pick-up truck or a crane. Or lots of shopping trolleys tied together.

Stolen Rum founder Jamie Duff is the comfort-loving brains behind the initiative. As an undergrad at Otago Uni, Dunedin, he spent plenty of time loving his couch. In fact, he was so taken, he’d occasionally carry it to a live sports game, where it would serve as seating. Duff wants everyone to have access to such opportunities, so he’s taking action and giving sofas away to the world. Indeed, Sydneysiders won’t be the only lucky recipients; another 100 lounges will be donated to strangers in Dunedin and Miami.

Stolen Rum, a new drop on the market, has been winning over hearts in bottle shops across Australia, New Zealand and the States. The company’s inspiration is a rebellion against the “tedious existence of work and pay”. “We cannot buy our lives back, nor can we beg them back,” writes the vagabond theorist on their site. “Our lives will only be our own when we steal them back — and that means taking what we want without asking permission.”

Starting with furniture.