Baby boomers and their furniture
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Anonymous
Your both are annoying bunch. 
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Anonymous
Pp here. Actually I defend millennials regularly because no one should stereotype people based on their generation. So....pp, there was nothing in my statement that even suggested that I bitch about millennials, yet you decided that I must do that just because I reacted negatively to being stereotyped as a boomer. You might want to reflect on that. And I mean you individually, no one else in your generation or mine. |
Anonymous
| My parents have the house I grew up in and now have also purchased a house in my sister's state and a house near me. So now they have 3 full houses filled to the brim with furniture, antiques, clothes and food. It's insane. |
Anonymous
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My adult kids have more furniture and wall stuff than I do. When we get near to our deaths, we're putting a dumpster in the driveway and throwing everything out so they don't rant on here and embarrass us.
We have good junk.
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Anonymous
| OP, your family sounds very materialistic. The boomers I know (late 50s to mid-60s) are in the process of clearing out their homes and happily downsizing. |
Anonymous
not my ILs sold house had to down size.3300sqft 4 br 3 bath to 2000 sqft first move to a nice 2br 2 bath condo while waiting for their spot to open up at retirmeent community. OMG the amout of crap they tried to cram into the condo... opening a box that says lamps. " hey MIL this is table lamp #8. do we really need top unpack it" MIL Yes.... one sofa. but 4 end tables and two coffee tables.... |
Anonymous
| Estate sales and consignment shops are now loaded with great furniture at a fraction of the original price if you are interested in transitional pieces that are pretty timeless. Too many people buy contemporary furniture which becomes out of date in ten years. |
Anonymous
It's funny you say that. I've bought loads of vintage MCM furniture that way = but now all that stuff is trendy so it's very expensive. I wonder if that heavy wood furniture will have a renaissance as well. To OP - I hear you! My parents and my in-laws both love buying furniture for their *very* full homes. I'm sure they think we waste our money on stupid stuff, too. |
Anonymous
I'm a millennial and I like antique furniture (I am the only one out of all my friends lol). So does my husband. Not huge china cupboards or anything, but the coffee table and side tables and lamps and bedrooms I have gotten are high-quality, solid wood pieces for a fraction of the cost of pottery barn junk. I love it! |
Anonymous
| I think it's a thing that comes with aging. When I grew up, the house was always neatly decorated with just enough furniture. Now both my parents' place are crammed with furniture, decorations, souvenirs etc. It's like each little space has to have something, and then something. It's not my business, but I find it weird too. |
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I was excited when my ILs were downsizing to an apartment. They had the most hideous dining room table & hutch (1970s yellow/pink) with the most uncomfortable matching chairs. I thought for sure they'd have to get rid of it and get something smaller in their new place.
Nope. They found an apt with a formal dining room. I didn't even know those existed. Their horrible furniture came with them. |
Anonymous
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OP I totally hear you. My father passed away three years and my mom is moving to be closer to other extended family. I thought, 'great, she'll downsize and get rid of some stuff.' She likes to brag about how she doesn't care about 'stuff' and it's only 'stuff' and there's no attachment to 'stuff." She bought a house bigger than the one she's leaving behind so she didn't have to get rid of any of her stuff!!
Her house her business, but it's not a mindset I understand. |
Anonymous
| God willing they have 20 more years on earth. Mind your own damn business and let them decorate how they please. |
Anonymous
Yes, we've bought all the high quality non-trendy secondhand / vintage furniture we need and donated / sold our crappy ikea stuff that was falling apart. There is nothing wrong with ikea, but you can sometimes find nice solid furniture for the same price or less, and it will last a long time. Anything I purchased in my 20s that was solid and vintage, I still have in my 40s. Some I've given away or sold, and pretty much made back what I paid for it. My mom (WWII generation) never downsized, she was so attached to her stuff and furniture. She was still wanting to buy stuff the year before she died, in her 80s. It was sad, really, because we could have used a lot of it when we were younger and by the time she died we could only take / swap out a few pieces we needed. I can understand parents and grandparents wanting to pass down solid furniture, but they need to do it when it would help kids and save them money. And, if you don't hate "brown" furniture or paint / refinish it, you can get some good secondhand deals right now and use your money for other things. |
Anonymous
+1 |