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Fragile Do Not Bend
Fragile Do Not Bend
Nov 2020
10:25am, 17 Nov 2020
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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
Mandymoo
Nov 2020
2:19pm, 17 Nov 2020
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Mandymoo
We had nothing when we brought our first house and just went without until we could afford things.
Hills of Death (HOD)
Hills of Death (HOD)
Nov 2020
8:57am, 18 Nov 2020
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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
Velociraptor
Nov 2020
9:08am, 18 Nov 2020
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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
LazyDaisy
Nov 2020
9:17am, 18 Nov 2020
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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' :-0
Velociraptor
Velociraptor
Nov 2020
9:28am, 18 Nov 2020
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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
Eynsham Red
Nov 2020
9:54am, 18 Nov 2020
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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
Velociraptor
Nov 2020
10:20am, 18 Nov 2020
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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
Too Much Water
Nov 2020
11:03am, 18 Nov 2020
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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
Lip Gloss
Nov 2020
1:50pm, 18 Nov 2020
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Lip Gloss
I have nothing that my son would be remotely interested in me passing on to him

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