My parents just can't stop raving about their acorn stair lift  – it may have been the best thing I've done for them since moving out of their house for good, hahah.

No, seriously.

I hadn't realized it but they'd literally stopped going upstairs except for maybe once or twice a week, even the dog didn't bother going up there anymore. Installing this system gave them back almost half of their house!

I was really surprised by how simple the whole process was too, maybe we just got lucky with the contractors but the guys who came to us knew their stuff. They were in and out in half a day and even Ma was comfortable using the thing! You just fold a seat down, pull an arm down (like a safety arm), then push a button to ride up the stairs.

The system my parents got is also surprisingly compact, it folds up when you don't want to use it so you have complete access to the stairs. Oh, and my pops ain't exactly a small guy, don't worry, it's rated over three hundred pounds and I think they might even make a bigger one.

Make sure you get all those specifics checked out though, that'd be a tough story to tell around the diner on Sunday! Kinda funny mental picture though… at least with my pops… He's kinda like a scaled up George from that Seinfeld show, only he gets far angrier at inanimate objects.

Alright, I'll stop beating around the bush – we all know the real reason these acorn stair lift systems are so great. Your parents don't have to move in with you, or a nursing home. You get the best of both worlds, no parents underfoot and no crushing guilt for shipping them off to a nursing home.

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