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In 2000, I moved into my first adult apartment with a TV stand as my only piece of furniture. The first thing I bought was a matching couch, love seat, and chair from "Direct Factory Outlet" (where you always get a free onion), the local crappy furniture outlet.

About 8 months ago, a spring in my couch broke. Right in my spot, under my butt groove. Like Sheldon Cooper, I am unable to sit in a different spot on the couch, so I've soldiered on.

Now, we aren't going to replace the couch until we move (we want to but new couches that fit the new house--and this couch is not moving with us), so I'm stuck with it for the time-being. I've tried weaving rope, metal cable, and webbing between the remaining springs to fix the problem, and all have worked temporarily with varying degrees of success (anywhere from 5 seconds to a couple of months).

Today, it occurred to me that I own a MIG welder, and I can simply weld the broken spring back together. So I did. And the couch is back to it's former glory. I bought the welder about 9 months ago. I don't know why this didn't occur to me earlier.