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Comment by sambeau | Hacker News Reader

Quite an unbalanced list in terms of cost:

  Standing                       $0
  Exercise Ball                 $15
  Herman Miller Aeron Chair  $1,150

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You're forgetting the cost to change your home setup to support standing.

Of course, you can go very cheap and use cardboard boxes to hold up your monitor and keyboard.

I got my standing desk from Ikea (from the 'As Is" section) for about $100

My standing desk is a set of $60 industrial shelves from CostCo.

If all you care about about is functionality, furniture can be pretty cheap. I'm thinking of the Xooglers video where Google's massive line of desks was a series of doors on top of sawhorses.

I think it was Amazon that used doors as desks (apparently some folks still do for the novelty factor)

http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/when-petscom-had-aeron-ch...

Mine cost me nothing. I got some wood scraps from a local kitchen factory and built a couple of tables, at the right height, to stand on top of my standard desk.

I wasn't forgetting: I was editing for effect :)

Having said that, how much are four bricks?

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