This Folding Chair Is So Lightweight, I Can Lift It With My Pinky Finger

I love watching my nephew play Little League, but I don’t love the resulting bruises I get on my hip bones after lugging heavy metal lawn chairs to his games. My family’s old set of lawn chairs is a melange of old-fashioned folding lawn chairs and more “modern” collapsible chairs from the early aughts (the kind that awkwardly crams into a canvas sleeve and weighs as much as a small child). If you’re carrying one of those chairs, it’s awkward enough. If you’re carrying four of them from the parking lot to the ball field or across the sand to the beach, you may as well lie prostrate on the shoreline and give up.

I recently decided my family needed an upgrade, so I asked the HuffPost Shopping team if they knew of any lightweight folding chairs. Our managing editor immediately tossed out one brand and one brand only, “Helinox,” saying they “weighed one pound.” I assumed this was a gross exaggeration, but upon searching the brand I was shocked to find out she was only slightly hyperbolic — the chairs weigh two pounds each.

Let me just say that my mind was blown before I even unpackaged the first chair I ordered.

When the package arrived on my front porch I was in total disbelief that this could be a chair — it comes in a canvas zipper pouch that’s not much bigger than one of today’s giant Stanley tumblers, and it was featherweight. I had snagged the most affordable model that Helinox offers, the “original lightweight camping chair.”

The “black/blue” color is currently on sale for $84.81 (23% off), and all other colors are still full price at $109.95. (Backcountry has one tie-dye colorway on even deeper sale at $76.97.)

Spending around $100 on an outdoor folding chair would have been unthinkable before experiencing how