Consider most of the furniture in your home.
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Consider most of the furniture in your home. Did you buy most of it new, or at near full price for older restored items? Did you find it? Thrift it? Get it from friends and family?
Bought New: This includes vintage or restored items sold at prices comparable to new.
Found/Gifted: You did not pay for the furniture.
Made: You made it, possibly by repurposing thrift-ed items or gifts.
Thrift-ed: Items were purchased but at a discount of over 80 percent.
Pick all that apply:
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Consider most of the furniture in your home. Did you buy most of it new, or at near full price for older restored items? Did you find it? Thrift it? Get it from friends and family?
Bought New: This includes vintage or restored items sold at prices comparable to new.
Found/Gifted: You did not pay for the furniture.
Made: You made it, possibly by repurposing thrift-ed items or gifts.
Thrift-ed: Items were purchased but at a discount of over 80 percent.
Pick all that apply:
@futurebird The 80% threshold is a little strange. Other than broken furniture, no second hand shop or market for classifieds has such insane price reductions.
A typical "used table" you might buy is going to be closer to 50% of the original price, unless it's battered and broken.
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@futurebird The 80% threshold is a little strange. Other than broken furniture, no second hand shop or market for classifieds has such insane price reductions.
A typical "used table" you might buy is going to be closer to 50% of the original price, unless it's battered and broken.
The thrift shop near where I live sells things like couches and huge chest of drawers for $20-$40.
These are often painted some strange color and very beat up. But they are functional.
For it to be "thrifting" it needs to not be a part of the same market pressures that apply to new furniture?
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Consider most of the furniture in your home. Did you buy most of it new, or at near full price for older restored items? Did you find it? Thrift it? Get it from friends and family?
Bought New: This includes vintage or restored items sold at prices comparable to new.
Found/Gifted: You did not pay for the furniture.
Made: You made it, possibly by repurposing thrift-ed items or gifts.
Thrift-ed: Items were purchased but at a discount of over 80 percent.
Pick all that apply:
@futurebird I buy most stuff new, because I need it "just so" but then I tend to use it until it croaks.
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@futurebird I buy most stuff new, because I need it "just so" but then I tend to use it until it croaks.
I have a hang up about buying new things. A kind of desperation to avoid it. Not totally rational, if you can buy something that works it can save a lot of time. (continues sawing down the legs of the table to make it into a coffee table.)
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The thrift shop near where I live sells things like couches and huge chest of drawers for $20-$40.
These are often painted some strange color and very beat up. But they are functional.
For it to be "thrifting" it needs to not be a part of the same market pressures that apply to new furniture?
@futurebird @lianna I'm not sure what does "discount over 80%" even mean when you're buying furniture that's half of century old?
E.g. we have this massive wood wardrobe we bought on classifieds for 150€, no idea what it cost originally (and the money back then were very different), and a new wardrobe of that size can technically be bought for like 200€ on sale (it will be very crappy and falling apart though), but a new wardrobe of that size made of massive wood would definitely be alive a thousand. Does this count as a discount over 80%? -
@futurebird @lianna I'm not sure what does "discount over 80%" even mean when you're buying furniture that's half of century old?
E.g. we have this massive wood wardrobe we bought on classifieds for 150€, no idea what it cost originally (and the money back then were very different), and a new wardrobe of that size can technically be bought for like 200€ on sale (it will be very crappy and falling apart though), but a new wardrobe of that size made of massive wood would definitely be alive a thousand. Does this count as a discount over 80%?Considering a new wardrobe would cost like 1500€ probably if it were made of wood and hand crafted yes?
I'm just a little grouchy about some people who talk about "recycling" but they are just getting expensive antiques then bragging about it like they raided a dumpster.
posers
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Consider most of the furniture in your home. Did you buy most of it new, or at near full price for older restored items? Did you find it? Thrift it? Get it from friends and family?
Bought New: This includes vintage or restored items sold at prices comparable to new.
Found/Gifted: You did not pay for the furniture.
Made: You made it, possibly by repurposing thrift-ed items or gifts.
Thrift-ed: Items were purchased but at a discount of over 80 percent.
Pick all that apply:
@futurebird This is my newly-made (as of last weekend) computer nook. The bookcase was made by my cousin's husband and myself (though mostly him; I just did some grunt work), the two desks were made by me and my mother (ashwood countertop and some Chinese-made table legs for the computer desk; the smaller one below the windowsill is just directly mounted on the wall).
All my bookcases in the living room are these homemade ones. My sofa and armchair are bought new, everything else is used.
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@futurebird This is my newly-made (as of last weekend) computer nook. The bookcase was made by my cousin's husband and myself (though mostly him; I just did some grunt work), the two desks were made by me and my mother (ashwood countertop and some Chinese-made table legs for the computer desk; the smaller one below the windowsill is just directly mounted on the wall).
All my bookcases in the living room are these homemade ones. My sofa and armchair are bought new, everything else is used.
If you hide those white cables you could put this in a magazine. Looks amazing.
