Wayfair Inheritance Inbound
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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I’ll leave mine heavily modded with doors and a soft close hack
Good luck removing it from the house without it falling apart.
If your grandparents left that for you, wouldn’t that be what you hand down to your grandkids?
Ikea and wayfair furniture is made to be replaced, not inherited….
Remember, we are in the age of “just buy another one”.
It’s becoming apparent many of you have never owned nice furniture. Yes it’s heavy but it doesn’t need to be giant like this. When you buy stuff not from IKEA it will basically last until you die or decide you want a new aesthetic
Both cost the same new
This meme is inaccurate because you would be unable to leave IKEA furniture to your children because it’ll disintegrate well before then.
Who has a home to put that in if many of us are renters, plus the 9 hells I’m taking that up any flights of stairs, additionally I’d prefer not to be dusting one thing constantly.
Why do the elderly think we want to inherit their furniture?
I’m pretty sure I will have sold all of my IKEA furniture to pay off my student loans a week or so before I die of old age. Just before the new retirement age of 90.
Gosh, I would have held onto that ornately carved one. But that’s just me.
Bold to assume there will be an inheritance.
Even old folk now are burning through their savings to pay for care.
We’ll have it even worse (if we get to old age).
That first one must be difficult to move, especially with all the lions and witches fighting inside.
Wtf is in there? Narnia?
Thrift stores are worth rooting around in for solid wood pieces. Still decently priced most of the time too.
Your grandparents have better taste than you hahaha! J/k that cabinet or whatever it is is badass though.
To be fair, it’s a shit load less heavy to move around.
For what its worth, that furniture on the left is big as hell AND it’ll be a real challenge to move all that. I can see why those type of furniture on the right seems to be existing nowadays.
We are temporary people in general. For the record, I read a twitter post back in 2013 or 2014 where somebody said that “In your 20s, you’re going to meet lots of temporary people”.
Since these jobs don’t pay well, the property values of these houses are higher than what people expect and climate change is hitting the world real hard, it is a taxing ordeal to try to establish a home base in one area for 20 years thinking that it would be that place to start a family and watch them grow.
I’ll admit, I get the vibe that I could get a better deal for my money regarding the furniture but on the flip side, in 5 years, am I going to continue to live in one place? I doubt that.
I just buy quality used furniture on Craigslist
Surely this highlights survivors bias to an extent.
Yes, 100, 200+ years they made some hellish furniture and there wasn’t flat pack anything BUT I bet there was plenty of scrap bits of wood nailed together for some shelves that once used just got thrown on a fire.
I highly recommend finding older furniture. I’ve found some amazing mid century modern solid wood dressers for crazy cheap. They’ve lasted 60+ years and have another 60 years in them. They don’t have quite close drawers, but that’s not a problem for me.
On the other hand, the “cheap” $400 dresser from Amazon lasted 2 years and looks like shit and a drawer barely works.
They left you the door to Narnia? Nice
We have a wardrobe that big. It’s called a shrunk though and has zero hardware. All the wood is grooved and slotted to just fit together.
Look at mr ” I can leave things to my children” my estate will be eliminated before half of my debt obligations are met.
Both my grandparents passed in 2020 (not covid). My husband and I inherited most of their furniture because we had just left a NYC apartment and my other immediate family were already well established in terms of furniture.
When we bought our house we warned the 2 movers we hired that some pieces were really heavy and they didn’t take us seriously until they tried lifting our massively heavy tv stand. They told us they were used to moving ikea furniture. Lol at one point we heard them say, “man these guys have some weird stuff.”
Pic no. 2: Way easier to clean!
That’s the basis on which I buy furniture: How hard will this be to clean?
Ones much easier to toss out, so I think your the considerate one I the situation?
Well to be fair you chalk painted the furniture your grandparents left you.
My grandpa left me 2 cupboards which were made of solid teak and were a gift from his grandpa to him. They were both over 100 years old and damn they looked beautiful
As a mover, this is very accurate, and very accurate that they’ll both fall apart so e z
Just don’t paint the vintage one white or do I guess I don’t control you lol
I’ll gladly take my iMac over an ornate credenza any day
So what do you do with the furniture your grandparents left you if you are not giving it to your grandkids?
I want neither of those.
You guys have furniture?
so minimalist that I won’t even be having kids.
Most people don’t want to inherent furniture. Plus, to hire someone to move or get rid of that beautiful oak monstrosity, you’re looking at a minimum $200-300.
My grandparents left me pretty chinsey furniture, but I took it because of the memories and nostalgia
Probably why they were rich, I didn’t even realize they were rich till they passed and I saw the will, they could have spent a lot more money, I think at least, I don’t know how much my grandmother was paying when she was in a home, maybe if she lived longer it would have sapped a lot of the money, and I don’t know how much her condo cost before she was in a home, a lot of her money may have been tied up in the condo so didn’t have much liquid
Old furniture is cool though 😎 but I wouldn’t want to move it
When my mom passed and my dad sold the house and moved out there was a ton of antiques to get rid of. Very little luck in doing so. The only people that want the stuff are the other retirees and they’re full. Anyone being told about a house full of stuff being passed down needs to prepare to sell for way below whatever is being told.
The other day I was building a very plain floating bookshelf out of some black walnut (got the wood through my wife’s work at a furniture mfg, not retail) and I had the thought “For people my age, having anything that’s actually made out of real wood is kind of like all that super fancy old furniture.”
Buying like… a nice (not even fancy, just nice) bedroom set made from quality hardwood costs 5 figures.
I kept a heavy ass armoire for 3 moves like the one on the left but with big glass mirrors on it, because my parents gave it to me when they moved.
I didn’t even like it that much but I thought it was a priceless heirloom that has been in our family generations. Turns out my parents just bought it at a thrift store when I was a kid.
And that’s why I got a vasectomy
Y’all are getting an inheritance?