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[โ€“] iii@mander.xyz 36 points 1 month ago (5 children)

It's great place to source wood if you like woodworking.

As old people die, their furniture ends up there. Young people seem to prefer particle board style furniture.

Happy me prefers real wood.

[โ€“] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Young people seem to prefer particle board style furniture.

As a young(-ish) person myself, I can assure you that it's not that we prefer particle board, but rather that that's the majority of what's affordable out there. As I'm sure you're probably aware, unless you go thrifting like you just said, real wood stuff in general, let alone furniture, is usually very expensive.

[โ€“] pugsnroses77@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

id thrift more wood pieces but i dont have the tools/space to fix it up. also i move a lot and that stuff is HEAVY

[โ€“] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Exactly. That's my situation too. I've found great furniture at Goodwills and (at the time) had the money to buy it, but I didn't have the room in my car for it, nor did I know anyone who did.

[โ€“] lordnikon@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Prefer or can only afford great idea i never thought of non the less

[โ€“] iii@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I always wonder why the heirs don't keep the furniture

[โ€“] lordnikon@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

I always expect it's they don't have the room. Grandma did a reverse mortgage. So you don't get the house can't pay for storage fees. Might as well get rid of it.

[โ€“] can@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Maybe there aren't any heirs. Or they're across the country, or it doesn't go with their decor. Etc.

[โ€“] XTL@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

Probably because it's brown and makes the room look like a barn. But not a trendy one.

Young people want to live their own lives, and part of that is choosing their furniture. You finally get a home of your own and the freedom to furnish it how you want and...oh I'm supposed to have all this old crap I don't really like.

Then your dad starts up with his shit. "Don't throw out that ratty yellowed old doily. I remember that from when I was a kid." "Okay, you take it." Here's a cabinet of gramma's china. They bought it for her out of a mail order catalog in the 30's so it's more sacred than god's glans.

We're also entering the era when the grandparents who are dying and leaving behind their furniture bought all their furniture from Sears and it's not much better than stuff you can get at Ikea, 40 years out of date, and seen 40 years of tobacco tar, cat piss and grampa farts.

I mean, you don't ask yourself why the heirs don't wear their grandparents' old clothes.

[โ€“] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 14 points 1 month ago

Nobody prefers particle board. Particle board is hot garbage.

[โ€“] jnb@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Would love real wood if I wasn't so deathly afraid of bedbugs. The risk is too high, especially with used wood furniture having all sorts of small nooks and holes maybe even in areas that can't be seen.

It is sadly also more convenient for me to order IKEA stuff delivered than doing a carshare ride out to it (the Montreal one is so far and way out of the way from downtown / west core)