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Fragile Do Not Bend Nov 2020 10:25am, 17 Nov 2020 7,246 posts	0 Fragile Do Not Bend I was lucky that my first purchase (a flat) came with a few items of furniture the seller didn’t want. A lot of that ended up getting passed onto my brother when he bought his first home. The dining table is still in use as a workroom table
Mandymoo Nov 2020 2:19pm, 17 Nov 2020 10,457 posts	0 Mandymoo We had nothing when we brought our first house and just went without until we could afford things.
Hills of Death (HOD) Nov 2020 8:57am, 18 Nov 2020 35,177 posts	0 Hills of Death (HOD) I think that’s the way when you first buy it seems to level itself out the payments stay same but wages go up (fingers crossed)
Velociraptor Nov 2020 9:08am, 18 Nov 2020 49,854 posts	0 Velociraptor My children all quite happily buy or scavenge second hand furniture. It's so much easier to get decent second hand furniture that's what you're looking for now than it was when I bought my first house. My parents and in-laws, bless 'em, regarded offspring with a house to be furnished as an opportunity to get rid of small household items that had to be kept because they had sentimental value or Had Cost Good Money but that they didn't want themselves.
LazyDaisy Nov 2020 9:17am, 18 Nov 2020 31,685 posts	0 LazyDaisy That's so true V'rap. An example: only last year did I finally take a horrible brass companion set to the tip, which my Mother-in-law pressed on as as soon as we got a house with an open fire decades ago. It was useful but horrible. When we had the woodburner installed I could finally get rid. Even then, OH, who has an alarming number of his mother's tendencies, wanted to pass it on to one of the boys as 'it might be useful'
Velociraptor Nov 2020 9:28am, 18 Nov 2020 49,856 posts	0 Velociraptor I have some items in my house that I won't be able to get rid of within my mother's lifetime.
Eynsham Red Nov 2020 9:54am, 18 Nov 2020 6,682 posts	0 Eynsham Red I think that it’s a change in society that makes decent 2nd furniture more readily available. My parent’s generation would buy furniture which would be kept for their married life, breakages accepting. In recent years people people have become more style conscious, and to a genre have more disposable income, and will change a suite more frequently.
Velociraptor Nov 2020 10:20am, 18 Nov 2020 49,859 posts	0 Velociraptor And people often don't want "old-fashioned" furniture. I keep seeing solid old stuff that has me thinking, "I wish I had room for that in my house, it's lovely."
Too Much Water Nov 2020 11:03am, 18 Nov 2020 7,789 posts	0 Too Much Water [I have a solid wood table which doubles as a side table or a dining table which belonged to my mums great aunt Florence in the 50s] I think I’ve only bought a few items of furniture new. Never had the money for it.
Lip Gloss Nov 2020 1:50pm, 18 Nov 2020 46,032 posts	0 Lip Gloss I have nothing that my son would be remotely interested in me passing on to him

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