To think buying furniture brand new is a waste of money?

I don't care about the resale value. I buy furniture because I like it and because I generally want to use it for a number of years. I don't really want 1960s teak furniture because that's not my taste and I like my house to look the way I want it to.

I dont think people bother about furniture depreciating in value. It's not like cars where you're possibly going to sell it on

I bought some new furniture a number of years ago. It was all hand made to order and expensive. But its gorgeous. Its solid, beautifully made and looks lovely. It was worth every penny. Its also.timeless so it's not going to need replaced

People don't regularly sell on a range of good quality, timelessly styled furniture, so that there's always exactly what you are looking for 2nd hand when you are looking to purchase furniture.

Id rather spend an extra £500 to get what I want in something I will use for 10/20 years than make a saving to have something that's not quite right.

In my experience, buying something that's 'not quite right' tends to lead to people replacing it sooner than they would do otherwise.

We buy from Oak furniture land. It literally goes with every thing and will last a lot longer than 10years. They're all good quality stuff.

I got a JL chest of drawers second hand from Gumtree for my DC. No way are they getting brand new as they'd trash it.

Also bought a sideboard for living room second hand. Same reasons. No point spending a fortune as I would be upset if it got scratched. This one has some imperfections on it but that's why I chose it.

Second hand sofas are often vile.

We have a mixture of both but some of the reasons for not picking second-hand is:

• we live very rurally so the second-hand market is very limited, and what does appear is snapped up very quickly.
• we have a tiny house with narrow doors and many larger items won't fit inside or suit our needs.
• we don't have a van, so buying second-hand involves paying for/arranging transport, whereas buying new means you get delivery (and sometimes set-up) included in the price.
• I like to support our small, local businesses - they go above and beyond. Our local bed shop, for example, will have your item at your house within the hour. The same goes for our local electric appliance shop - I ordered a washing machine once and it was set-up and in my house before I'd finished the Tesco shop!
• I don't want to buy stuff that's been in a household with smokers.
• I'd rather pay a bit more and get exactly what I want.

There won't be any second hand furniture if everyone stops buying new stuff.

But in six months very few people are looking to sell their furniture, generally they keep it for a very long time.

I brought my furniture new because the price includes delivery. If I buy second hand I have to pick up the furniture myself and i'm not physically capable of doing that.

Some people haven't got the time to look around for the second hand piece they like, some people don't keep furniture ten years anyway. I have a mixture my dresser and bureau are old and lovingly restored by me pre-DS, coffee table is an old very heavy and solid chest I found on gumtree. Dining table was new because I wanted a specific style, size and ability to extend without having a piece I needed to store. My first flat was mainly IKEA because it was the cheapest I could find, side tables £5 coffee tables £10 etc were cheaper than buying second hand