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(DIR) Post #B0VC0vnVEwAQ0LKcsa by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-22T11:23:37Z
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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:
(DIR) Post #B0VCYp9oQzOFFwvbqS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-22T11:29:45Z
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@lianna 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?
(DIR) Post #B0VD4qke2jIxT0QYLI by sahqon@beige.party
2025-11-22T11:35:31Z
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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.
(DIR) Post #B0VDDcgBjOyWQiWfvE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-22T11:37:10Z
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@sahqon 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.)
(DIR) Post #B0VDoLu54C2d7BXQCe by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2025-11-22T11:43:40Z
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@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%?
(DIR) Post #B0VE7yevCO2Goao02K by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-22T11:47:20Z
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@IngaLovinde @lianna 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
(DIR) Post #B0VEjKhUDEDJtDokZk by louisa_@mastodon.social
2025-11-22T11:54:02Z
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@futurebird @lianna we're in a different market in the UK but for second-hand furniture (either bought direct or through our version of thrift shops etc), I'd expect at least 50% off of even very good condition items. It's a bit counter intuitive: we get higher %ages off good brands, because the initial purchase price was higher & there's a bottom floor for every sale. Also, get higher discounts on bigger items because fewer people want them. Our dining set & sofas were ~80% off, maybe more.
(DIR) Post #B0VEwDgjavMduGbvpg by SKleefeld@retro.pizza
2025-11-22T11:56:21Z
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@futurebird Most of our furniture was bought new 25-30 years ago and I *think* the places that manufactured them have all since gone out of business. I also do have a few pieces that I did not make myself, but I commissioned a carpenter to make to my specs.
(DIR) Post #B0VFPNZpuK80yRHx5s by chessert@mastodon.online
2025-11-22T12:01:38Z
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@futurebird Furniture runs in our family. My parents moved to PA when my Dad retired (1980) : Mom had acquired 3 full households of it. That comprised most of the furniture I started out with. Over time, that was largely distributed to my kids and friends. I still have a number of pieces that have been in our family for 150+ years. Thinking about it, all of that came from my Mom’s family.
(DIR) Post #B0VFav3flVpq01kNMm by hydropsyche@ecoevo.social
2025-11-22T12:03:43Z
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@futurebird We have received a lot of furniture from family as my parents downsized their house and we lost grandparents whose houses were emptied and sold. It really is a blessing to have really nice solid wood furniture made last century by people who were good at making things (vs our Ikea sofa on its last legs).
(DIR) Post #B0VG388mic9KgMaeem by gbargoud@masto.nyc
2025-11-22T12:08:47Z
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@futurebird Pretty much all new furniture except for specific things (dining table I built myself)Would have been a very different answer 5 years ago but what we've been doing is getting the cheapest thing (used, new or hacked together) that works and then slowly (over multiple years) looking for the perfect piece of furniture to take it's place then offering the old one to friends or putting it on the curb where it usually disappears within a day or two
(DIR) Post #B0VGIYpNmMGJnJsAmO by rlcw@ecoevo.social
2025-11-22T12:11:36Z
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@futurebird This used to be different, when I had less money. But by now most stuff is new - mainly because I can't be bothered with thriftstores. But at the same time I still keep stuff for a very long time, and also repurpose/remodel things already in my space.
(DIR) Post #B0VGWwnRScikBbpDay by trurl@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-11-22T12:14:09Z
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@futurebird we have a mix of furniture, which includes a good number of things from grandparents' estates which needed refurbishing. This wound up costing more than buying something old from a thrift shop or new from a random mid-range furniture store, but it has yielded nice furniture for much less than sourcing from an antique store. In most cases, the item in question wasn't particularly top-of-the-line, but just solidly made.
(DIR) Post #B0VGpKJ2n5m0JSN2UC by sahqon@beige.party
2025-11-22T12:17:31Z
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@futurebird Oh, I like diying stuff too, but it's maybe because we do get stuff from grandparents, but there's not the culture here with the garage sales, so it's really hard to get practical stuff used. And also people rarely throw out stuff that's still fit for use. I just managed to give away (most of) the non-induction functional cookware we had, but it's not for money and I could possibly get stuff like this, but also just as a gift. But usually you don't get rid of things that are still good unless such special circumstances happen. Everybody's a hoarder lol! No "let's remodel the 2 yo room because I like a thing I saw on youtube" here.
(DIR) Post #B0VI8jciz9M4I1OWMS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-22T12:32:17Z
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@datarama If you hide those white cables you could put this in a magazine. Looks amazing.
(DIR) Post #B0VKK2HAB1hlESpFwG by MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social
2025-11-22T12:56:42Z
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@futurebird We don’t have all that much furniture so in our rooms with beds almost a third of the furniture is mattress and metal bed frame that came with it. Mattresses I buy new. Also 4 of our nightstands or side tables are tv trays I bought new, I kind of feel like that’s thrifting proximal.
(DIR) Post #B0VOM3wbLQH4noQj6e by bpolitte@mstdn.games
2025-11-22T13:41:53Z
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@futurebird I have a few pieces of furniture that belonged to my grandfather which I keep out of nostalgia. I also have a lot of furniture that my father made for me, mostly shelves, but also a computer desk, a specimen cabinet, and a cabinet designed to hold old laser discs (it works great for oversized books too).
(DIR) Post #B0VWVDGgqYXrxZhV5M by mavu@mastodon.social
2025-11-22T15:13:10Z
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@futurebird this really made me think a bit, because most of our furniture just "is" :)My family has been living in this house for over a hundred years, different generations buy some stuff new, and it just stays as long as its usable.My desks for example were bought new, but by my parents, so i didnt buy them, but they were bought new.The only thing i really bought (futniture) was our glorious sofa, and beds. Our livingroom table is from the late 70s i think.
(DIR) Post #B0VZOXhileHxAzr4me by sewblue@sfba.social
2025-11-22T15:45:36Z
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@futurebird @IngaLovinde @lianna Depends on where you shop frankly. Where I live we have a couple of antique stores that are little more than thrift stores. I have bought some really interesting unique pieces in decent shape over the years. Like an amazing small art deco bar cabinet. Higher end stores in the Bay Area shop there to resell at higher prices for the kind of people you mention. My uncle owns one of those high end antique stores. As he puts it, he wants to make the most money he can for the least amount of work so prices everything to the max. These days though he buys most his stuff off Facebook by from people who don't know what they are selling.
(DIR) Post #B0Vqr9J4FrHn7wYAE4 by ElyseMGrasso@wandering.shop
2025-11-22T19:01:13Z
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@futurebird special case here: 12/30/2021 a wildfire burned everything I owned except my car and the clothes I was wearing. I spent a lot of money (mostly from insurance) that first week to furnish the condo I moved into, with no time to shop around (or even wait very long for delivery), but got a few things from friends and family.
(DIR) Post #B0W6gREOrxcEniHVey by Helenisenough@masto.ai
2025-11-22T21:58:35Z
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@futurebird we have only 3 pieces of furniture that were bought new; 2 beds and the sofa. Everything else is a mix of second (third/fourth) hand from friends/family, found on the street, free cycle and bought from charity shops.
(DIR) Post #B0WKbfv8E6RcGjtLhg by CliftonR@wandering.shop
2025-11-23T00:34:36Z
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@futurebird I'd never really thought about it, but considering all the bookshelves and the improvised desk, and DIY stuff we assembled, it's probably about 1/4 "made ourselves." (My wife made more of it than I did, so she should have the bragging rights.)For the rest, it's more bought new, but probably a good 1/3 used.