Simples.
Invites mumsy,daddy and SO over for a meal. Use all the furniture (and perhaps other borrowed item).

Cook badly. Mumsy will realise that a.) there's no room for all of the existing furniture, and b.) Sit-don meals for more than two aren't your forte. Thn it's easy to explain that the table an chairs aren't necessary.

Bingo
( Tepid_Halibut felt like a cold, empty shell of a human...until, Sat 23 May 2009, 13:37, Reply)