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Okay, but $3,000 for a couch sounds like a damn-reasonable budget, and apparently isn't? So can you tell me what my couch budget should be for a good couch that

by ctoth 3y ago

Okay, but $3,000 for a couch sounds like a damn-reasonable budget, and apparently isn't? So can you tell me what my couch budget should be for a good couch that won't, in fact, break in three years? $3000 in 1995 dollars is approximately $6,000 today, so should I start looking at $6,000 couches? Except the problem here is when my parents bought a nice couch in 1995, it certainly wasn't $3,000 (closer to $1,200), and it lasted 10 years.

Night_Thastus 3y ago
$3000 is absolutely a perfectly fine budget, and you can get a well-made couch within that. Some couches for that price will be cheaply made garbage. Some will be very well made. You have to look around, do research, look at customer feedback, see what reputation brands have, try a few, etc. I got a motion sofa for $2k 5 years ago, it's still going well. For a regular sofa you'd be fine with less. Just because poorly made and expensive furniture exists does not mean that all furniture is so.