re: WSJ - Significant increase in poor quality furniture in the US

quote:

---

Most women are looking to remodel and redecorate everything after 3 years anyway. It’s just a shame we are paying high end prices for low end crap

---

Like fools my wife and daughter insisted we buy a house in a subdivision with a pool and club house and pickleball and the like...none of which none of us use as I predicted. Those homes are designed to last about 15-20 years if one is lucky. The kitchens are GORGEOUS in photographs but in reality are not any better than what is put in high end mobile and modular homes. That development is going on 10 years old and now and I would bet at least 75% have had a complete kitchen remodel and about 30% are on the second one. People are ate the frick up with remodeling and chasing trends. There are several delivery trucks a day from furniture stores and appliance stores in our neighborhood of about 75 homes. Bathrooms are the same way. Folks spend a FORTUNE keeping up with trends and one another and complain about being broke. If they bought high quality shite all they would do is haul it to good will or sell it on facebook and buy some more...