Mom Sets Out to Solve Cleaning Problem, Starts a Carriage Trade

Stay-at-home mom set out to solve problem of feeding messes and inadvertently starts a business.

Self-proclaimed older mom" Karen Nadler-Sachs, like so many moms before her, was performing a simple childcare task, when she had a revelation. While feeding her toddler in the wee hours of the morning, she saw in slow-motion the jelly slip off her daughters fork and onto her lovely chairs. Despite the effort of having strategically placed a towel on the chair, the towel had, for the nth time, shifted. A mess had occurred. More work for mom.

And Save the Chairs!" has been her rallying cry every since.

In those wee hours of the morning, as Nadler-Sachs pondered such questions as When will the incessant cleaning end?" and Why hasnt anyone solved this problem yet?" she decided right then and there to create a child-friendly chair cover herself.

Unlike conventional bag-like slipcovers, Nadler-Sachs decided that her Situpon Chair Cover had to look tailor-made, be adjustable to fit almost any size chair, be absorbent, impermeable, soft to the touch, and best of all -- machine washable. After 6 months and numerous designs and prototypes, she had a functional model, complete with bib pocket" in the back.

Like so many moms before her, Nadler-Sachs realized she had invented something that could help other moms and caretakers, too. Having filed her patent application, she plans to license the original vinyl-lined terry-cloth version to a juvenile product manufacturer. But even better, she also has plans for a disposable version for childrens parties. Her rallying cry, Save the Chairs!" has become the name of her business.

For additional information on the Situpon Chair Cover, contact Karen Nadler-Sachs at savethechairs@comcast.net.

About Save the Chairs! LLC: Karen Nadler-Sachs, President of Save the Chairs, LLC, is a 38-year old mom of one, part-time telecommunications attorney, former tailoring student, and inventor. She established Save the Chairs! in order to bring her labor-saving, child-friendly chair cover to other over-worked caretakers. Save the Chairs! and Situpon are trademarks of Save the Chairs! LLC. The Situpon Chair Cover is patent-pending.



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Karen Nadler-sachs