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I still use the dresser drawer that I used when I was 5...

Discussion in 'Environmental Discussion' started by burritos, Oct 24, 2007.

  1. burritos

    burritos Senior Member

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    The dresser drawer my parents got as a hand me down from friends is the dresser drawer that I still use 32 years later. This bad boy is 5 ft tall has 5 drawers and houses all my t shirts, pants, boxers, shorts and jeans. It's brown, ugly, looks like it's from the sixties, not from ikea, but best of all it was free. Occasionally I'll find splinters in my clothes but it's only occasionally. Certainly I can well afford a new and nicer dresser drawer. My wife has hinted at it, so has my mother.

    But why should I? I'll be out at least a couple of hundred dollars(or a thousand if it were up to my wife's tastes). Another tree will have to get chopped down or maybe I'll have some hotdog-woodchip-pressed-pseudowood with toxic glue contraption from pottery barn. Then I'd lose 2 hours of my life frustratingly putting it together only to find out I'm missing one screw. Then I'd be confronted with getting rid of the old dresser drawer. The prius is an amazing piece of machinery, but it ain't going to fit my dresser drawer. Then I'd have to worry about my kid drawing on or scratching up a fine new piece of furniture.

    F that. My hope is my son will be writing the same thing in thirty years from now in like minded forum. Or maybe he'll be conversing about his screwed up dad in a psychiatric support group.
     
    #1 burritos, Oct 24, 2007
  2. daveleeprius

    daveleeprius Heh heh heh you think so?

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    I used the same dresser until I was 31 and my fiance' moved in with me shortly before we married. I left it at a thrift shop, complete with Star Wars and Dairygold stickers on the side. We bought a new dresser from Ikea for $99 which we now share. Cheap yes, but utilitarian. Neither of us are into expensive furniture.
     
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    That's great burritos. I am still using the same wallet I got in high school thirty-some years ago. I was even told by Homeland Security* that I should replace this wallet, but that still hasn't convinced me. Some things like this just shouldn't be discarded.

    *I was going through security following an international flight and for some reason my wallet needed to be searched. In the process, since it is coming apart in a few places, all of my cards fell out. As I was given the handfull of contents I was instructed, "You really should get a new wallet." With this added sentiment, all the more reason to hold on to it I suppose.

    PA P
     
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    My son still uses his Grandfather's dresser, which has survived 4 trips from coast to coast plus all his moves between high school and now.
    Weighs a ton but is rock solid after 57 years of use.
     
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    If the wife doesn't like it, move it into the closet.

    No trees die in the purchase of my furniture. I buy used/vintage/antiques. They look better, are made better and are usually cheaper than new anyway.
     
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    My DH and I use a dresser that my FIRST spouse and I bought in 1978.

    I have, over the years, found dressers and other furniture for my family at garage sales, second-hand stores, and in the paper.

    Once, I found a beautiful bedroom set. Forget the "brand" of it... very high quality, very good condition. Dirt cheap.

    The ex got it. *sigh*
     
    #6 Rae Vynn, Oct 24, 2007
  7. tripp

    tripp Which it's a 'ybrid, ain't it?

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    Craig's list is your friend for this sorta stuff. Why the hell would anyone buy new furniture? makes no bloody sense at all.
     
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  8. efusco

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    I've still got my childhood dresser, it's in a guest room, but I had to refinish it about 16 years ago to get all the KISS and Charlie's Angels stickers and all other sort of stickers off of it. But it looks pretty good other some of the veneer pealing off. Still in pretty good shape otherwise.

    When we moved into our first house we got a 'bedroom set' with matching dressers/bed/etc.
     
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    I still have my Captain's bed (looks like a twin daybed with drawers under it) that I got in 1980. It has gone through elementary, middle, high school, college, and now my son has it. It has been through 8-12 military moves. It is basically pressed wood. They do not make them like that anymore since our last pressed wood dresser fell apart after 3 years. :p
     
    #9 Tadashi, Oct 31, 2007
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