> More annoying to keep clean? Looks shitty if it's even slightly dirty, gets dirty if you so much as look at it, requires very thorough cleaning to make it lo

> More annoying to keep clean? Looks shitty if it's even slightly dirty, gets dirty if you so much as look at it, requires very thorough cleaning to make it look good (no smudges or streaks). Means you don't do your own cleaning—like, at all. Once-a-week housekeepers can't keep a mirrored coffee table looking tidy. Probably also helps if you have whole rooms you barely use, but even dust'll have it looking shabby faster than, say, wood. If you buy such a piece and do your own cleaning—and especially if you actually use it—you'll probably regret it in a matter of days. It's the kind of thing someone without that can only own (without it looking way worse than almost any alternative material) if they're so dedicated to it that it'll be the thing people remember about them. "Aunt Gertrude and that damn table. You remember that? Wouldn't let anyone touch it, and damned if every time you came to visit, she wasn't cleaning it. She had a whole process. Drawer of different towels, three or four cleaning bottles she had to put on in order. One time my kid touched it with a cookie-greased hand and she saw me getting the Windex, nearly bit my head off."