Reply To: Is buying second hand funiture second class?

As other have said, buying within your budget is absolutely first class. The only thing I would avoid is upholstered furniture unless it goes directly from the seller to an upholsterer before it comes into your home. Most of my furniture is second hand because I like antiques. A lot of it came from family members, but some of it was purchased from ads in the paper. Most of the furniture manufactured today is of far inferior quality than older furniture is – unless you are prepared to have, for example a sofa, custom made which would cost you a pretty penny. When my kids wanted to buy a good bedroom suite, the bought it second hand and just purchased a new mattress and boxspring. The set they bought would retail in the 15 – 20,000 range today, and they paid 1500 for it. Believe me, they did their homework before they got the bedroom set.