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.
Of course, you can go very cheap and use cardboard boxes to hold up your monitor and keyboard.
Having said that, how much are four bricks?
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.
http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/when-petscom-had-aeron-ch...