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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Yes, we started our married life with mismatched furniture - much of it second hand or gifted to us, a carpet square bought at a fire damaged sale(it smelled of smoke for ages).....an antique gas cooker and a very basic washing machine, complete with a mangle(yes it was electrically operated, but a mangle nevertheless).
This was so that we didn't go into debt. This would never do for many of the newly weds of today.
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Most of our furniture still is second hand... bought in auction sales when we bought our first house and still with us. The fact that a couple of pieces are now probably worth in the thousands of pounds is beside the point -they were dirt cheap when we got them. Most of the rest of our stuff is from IKEA or similar.
We also had an antique gas cooker at first and didn't get a washer until about 1990 - went to the launderette every week till then. And our TV is still only about 22 inches (not quite sure exactly!).