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Originally Posted by susie123
Well some of my stuff is now worth quite a lot of money so it can't have been that tatty! Just out of fashion in those days - now more likely to be seen on the Antiques Roadshow.
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Quite right.
Old stuff was built to last.
Very often it's modern stuff that's the tat, and designed to be binned after a couple of years. Which then forces you to buy more rubbish.
I furnished my first home with second-hand stuff people kindly gave me. I didn't have anything new at all, until a few years later when Mum bought me a washing machine. I was thrilled with what I was given, and it's still treasured.
I didn't ever have a new telly until two years ago.
I've posted before that a friend of a friend who was an asylum seeker, well he wasn't really, he was a Turkish liar pretending to be Kurdish, laughed at my television for being antiquated, though it worked perfectly well, even if it was third-hand.
As I said earlier, I don't think Dorothy McGregor is a bad person, but I do think she is misguided, and also foolish for saying the things she has, about local folk being worse off now, than in the Depression.