I'm not looking into 100 years old stuff, that's mostly solid wood anyway. I'm referring to my consistent experience of buying both laminated chipwood and vene

I'm not looking into 100 years old stuff, that's mostly solid wood anyway. I'm referring to my consistent experience of buying both laminated chipwood and veneer wood things, then seeing the former disintegrate within 5 years and the latter last 10 years with no visible damage. It's all good now, I just wish it didn't take me 10 years to gain this knowledge. On another hand if I got it much earlier it wouldn't benefit me either because I could only afford cheap stuff anyway.