Furniture (do you replace often)

I rarely replace and when I do it's usually because somepne gave me something better than what I have

20 years in our house - we're on our third couch. First dining room table - it's still in great shape and we love it, so I can't see getting rid of it.

We desperately need a new couch, but it has been difficult getting DH to agree - and to be willing to spend the money. Honestly, we’ve been married 25 years and have never bought a brand new couch! We always get them secondhand, one from our parents, and my sister gave us two really nice ones. Last summer we bought one off FB and while it LOOKS nice, the cushions are shot.

So to answer your question, no we do not replace things very often. We get a lot of use out of our furniture.

I replace when needed. My living room set, was 22 years old. It needed to go. I ordered furniture on October 17th. Should be in the end of the month.

I bought my first couch after 25 years of marriage. DH had a couch before we were married that he had purchased new. I both loved and hated what I bought. It was so huge (it didn't look that huge in the showroom) and the recliner part was almost impossible for me to lock shut. Luckily my daughter loved it, so when she moved to her first non-college apartment, it went with her. It was just a couple years old, and I bought the one I currently have.

I also bought myself a new smaller recliner and DH bought a new recliner at the same time we bought this last couch.

I replaced my bed frame a couple years ago. What we had been using was DH's from when he graduated college, and it had been a hand me down then. I found an antique sleigh bed for $100. I love it! We sleep in a double/full size bed, so the antique frame was perfect!

I bought our kitchen table about 30 years ago.

That's it!

Dining room table and chairs, china hutch, etc. are family pieces handed down.

Now appliances - I feel like I do a total replace every 10 years, not that I want to!

Interesting question. Sometimes I feel like I replace my appliances more than other people!

In the past 30 years and ALL since I left XH who wouldn't replace a thing, except for one broken couch:
Upgraded dining table (we only use one table - no "dining room/kitchen" table that is separate
I have three rooms that require couches: One has never been replaced and is still fabulous, one has been replaced twice (3 sets*) and one has been replaced once (2 sets)
Upgraded my bed as soon as he left. Got rid of all but one piece of furniture and I painted that one white.

FWIW, I have always had space for a loveseat in my bedroom. Ridiculous how many times I have had to replace that one. I am on at least no. 5. That is thanks to the dogs and the fact that I wanted a white one. I cannot imagine who keeps a white couch/loveseat clean without chair covers, which ruin the effect of the couch.

ETA: For those of you who remember a couple years ago when I had to take my XH in because he had a stroke. He sat on my favorite couch 12 hours a day and broke a spring and I couldn't face that couch any more and dragged it by myself out to the curb for Big Trash. It was a little ridiculous, but it felt finally like I was moving on. I searched high and low and found a couch I love. It didn't go in the right spot, but it is giant and fits my whole family comfortably. Eventually, I found a chair and ottoman to go in my nook where my favorite couch was. It feels like ME again!

I will be replacing everything. When we just sold our house the offer was for everything in the house so we sold it with everything except our personal effect. It worked out perfect for us and for the new buyers, they are moving from the west coast to the east coast and we are moving to another province. I am excited to buy new furniture for a new beginning.

One thing I notice when watching YouTube videos, particularly cleaning/organizing videos, is that people seem to have all new everything. No mismatched furniture (whether that is slightly different style due to being bought at different times in life) or things that have been replaced at different times. All of the “things” in the home also look like they were bought at exactly the same time. Everything is perfectly up to date. I’ve always been curious how they manage that—not only from a budget standpoint but because I think there will always be things in my house that I love even if they aren’t new, so things will get rotated as time goes by. Also, we have some pieces of furniture that were gifts and I feel like we can’t get rid of them, even if they don’t fit the current style and we don’t have the best place for them.

Well, we finally got our first new couch when we bought our house 5 years ago. Before that we had a couch someone left in the hallway of our apartment building that was awful, scratchy and the cushions were shot. But it was free, and we hauled it from our apartment to the rental house. We were so broke that we couldn't afford anything else. When we bought our house I said the couch goes to the curb and I don't care if we have to finance it we're buying a new couch! So we did. The other furniture in the room is either from before we were married or Ikea scratch and dent. THe dining room table is an antique from DH's mother which replaced the antique from my mother (we still have the chairs). Our living room furniture either was from before we were married or came out of my parents house after mom died and I needed to sell the house.

our mattress is the only thing we've replaced more than once. I think we're on our 3rd. Before she died my mom was dithering about replacing hers, considering I suspect it was circa 1970 it was time. 

I'd like to replace the chairs in the living room, but with 2 teenagers Its not going to happen soon. Also, after taking in some pieces from mom's house we have too much furniture in our house as it is, but I love the storage options it gives us.

Yes, we move countries often and live in rented houses with different layouts. I can’t count how many sofas we’ve been through in 20 years. I like to change out furniture often, but it’s a mixture of antique, second hand, and new.

Lol I forgot about our bedroom set - it’s 20 years old, a hopelessly outdated mission style, and wasn’t great quality to begin with. We haven’t bothered to replace it because no one sees it but us. (We have gotten new mattresses in that time.)

We will be married 38 years on Thursday. We married very young and neither of us brought any furniture into the marriage.

We have lived in 5 homes (2 rentals and 3 purchased)
Dining/kitchen tables - 3 sets - first was a cheap set purchased at Target, second was my parents hand me down set and third is an amazing Pecan wood set that includes a hutch that I purchased at a rummage sale and absolutely LOVE so will probably be the set we die with.
couches/chair - we have gone through probably 7 or 8 couch/chair combinations. We typically rotate old to the family room and new in the living room like others have mentioned.
bedroom set - started with mismatched dressers and just a bedframe when we married (actually the first was a waterbed LOL) but then have purchased two complete bedroom sets since
I can't begin to count the number of TV's and entertainment centers

Seems like we replace living room couches/chairs every 5-7 years. Especially when the kids were young - they were the reason we couldn't have nice things. Now a retired DH is the reason!

We just gave away a couch we've had for over 28 years. The person who came to get it said "it looks new".

We're really easy on our stuff and don't replace very much. Buy neutrals. Accessorize to "keep current".

I detest the thought of landfills, so we do our best to make things last.