LOL! I got a hint about that! I showed my T a picture of a cute coat stand I bought off the internet, then he said he needed one too, so I looked for wood ones for him (mine was black metal with some wood trim, eighty bucks or so). I was pushing for my favorite, and he blurted out, kind of exasperated, "I'm not going to spend a THOUSAND dollars for a coat rack!!!" Like he'd had this sort of argument before with people eager to spend HIS hard-earned money! It was a beauty, tho. You could push it closed like a column, or open it and the top would bloom, like a tree.