My son and his family moved in with me right after I got a divorce a couple of years ago because they were building a new house. I suggested they just bring their furniture because I was getting rid of mine anyway (taint of the ex-husband). It made more sense than putting it all in storage. They had a very nice living room set, all electric.

What I didn't like most was that it takes too long to un-recline, especially when I needed to get up quickly because of the shenanigans of my then two-year-old grandson.

Yeah, a power outage would suck too. I like to keep things simple.

After I got stuck in it with a fortunately short outage. I got my first power recliner after I had an operation on my right shoulder - the recliner I'd been sleeping in had its lever on the right and I couldn't operate it. (Sleeping in a recliner relieves the pressure on a damaged shoulder).

When I had my knees replaced, I could not push down on the foot part to sit the chair back up so I got a power recliner. Still have it - and inherited the power lift recliner we bought for my Mom. The lift recliner was a life saver after my hernia operation last fall - I could not get up out of bed or the other non-lift recliner due to the amount of work they did on my abdomen.