I guess 'cheapness' is subjective to how much you earn isn't it?!
No, it's in comparison to furniture you can buy from everywhere else
How much of your furniture is from Argos?
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No, it's in comparison to furniture you can buy from everywhere else
sheothebudworths
Up the bum - no babies!!!
I don't earn anything. 
Voley
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zenie
>^^<
My bedframe was just as expensive as it would be anywhere else. Think we buy different stuff from Argos!
My bedframe was just as expensive as it would be anywhere else. Think we buy different stuff from Argos!
Never bought a bedframe from Argos. Am still using one I sort of 'inherited' 20 years ago
The rest of the stuff I've bought from there was cheaper than everywhere else though. That's why I bought it from there
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Thinking about it, i lied about buying everything 2nd hand - i do have excessive amounts of books so have loads of bookshelves which are screwed together until i can either find some nice proper ones or build some.
If you know what you're doing with 2nd hand furniture, though, it's a good place to pick up really well designed pieces that you can actually sell at a profit in a few years if you don't need them any more. I know sod all about it, but i've still picked up some really nice little tables and chests and things - things that are a pleasure to have round and built by someone who took pride in work and really knew what they were doing.
It's what your parents would say, you know it is.
If you know what you're doing with 2nd hand furniture, though, it's a good place to pick up really well designed pieces that you can actually sell at a profit in a few years if you don't need them any more. I know sod all about it, but i've still picked up some really nice little tables and chests and things - things that are a pleasure to have round and built by someone who took pride in work and really knew what they were doing.
It's what your parents would say, you know it is.
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
Our bed (came with free mattress - still have bed but mattress replaced quite some years ago)
Two leather sofas (They did a "Buy one get one free" offer about 8 years ago)
Everything else donated by people or Ikea!
Two leather sofas (They did a "Buy one get one free" offer about 8 years ago)
Everything else donated by people or Ikea!
Sofabed, 1 set of low shelving for clothes and 2 blanket boxes from Argos.
Ikea bookshelving (Sten takes more weight than most bookcases and can be stacked with 2-3 depths of paperbacks).
Flatpack bed base (designed & made by VP's dad - no MDF or chipboard), inherited from sister who stopped needing it when her husband stopped being moved around so much.
Most of the rest is handed down, but not flatpack.
Ikea bookshelving (Sten takes more weight than most bookcases and can be stacked with 2-3 depths of paperbacks).
Flatpack bed base (designed & made by VP's dad - no MDF or chipboard), inherited from sister who stopped needing it when her husband stopped being moved around so much.
Most of the rest is handed down, but not flatpack.
Freecycle is great but tricky when you do not drive. I would really prefer to get second hand furniture rather than 'disposable' flat pack stuff that has a tendancy to dissolve when moved about.
Stig
Condimentalist
Naah, we don't have a vehicle, and have managed a pine double bed, a sturdy solid wood bookcase, an old upholstered sofabed, a huge lazyboy armchair, and various other similar things all of which the kind people involved have offered to deliver (once we started mentioning sack barrows and bungee cords.)
We have also trekked miles and balanced things on buses only to get them home and find them completely useless... just for balance, like.
None of mine has.
Granted, I won't be buying another self-assembly desk (too small, too flimsy) and I learned a while back that if you try and close the drawer of a cheap chipboard chest of drawers with an irritatable kick your foot goes through it (
), but everything else is fine. The bookcases hold together well, the table is still doing its job ... I've no complaints, really.None of mine has.
Why so confused? Mine did. What can I say? That I'm a big fat liar and actually it's really excellent quality? Because yours doesn't fall apart and is flimsy shite?
Why so confused? Mine did. What can I say? That I'm a big fat liar and actually it's really excellent quality? Because yours doesn't fall apart and is flimsy shite?
lol I believe you...I posted earlier that most of my bedroom stuff is from Argos and it's stood the test of time - roughly 10 years and still solid and looking good but in honesty I think I was lucky with what I got - doubt if I'd buy from Argos again - at the time I was skint..Because I expected more of it to have come to bits by now than actually has!
I even dragged the wardrobe about the other day without so much as a screw falling out.
Because I expected more of it to have come to bits by now than actually has!
I even dragged the wardrobe about the other day without so much as a screw falling out.
Well, it's either a) the St Helens Argos sells the castoffs from all the other argoses, or b) yours is just held together with black mould from all the damp flats you've lived in
weltweit
Well-Known Member
None of my furniture at the moment is from Argos ..
We used to have a blue sofa bed from them and it was very good value if not completely comfortable as a bed.
I have some IKEA furniture, which is absolute shite .. also some MFI which is also shite but British as opposed to Scandinavian shite !
I will be buying another small blue sofa bed from Argos probably soon.
We used to have a blue sofa bed from them and it was very good value if not completely comfortable as a bed.
I have some IKEA furniture, which is absolute shite .. also some MFI which is also shite but British as opposed to Scandinavian shite !
I will be buying another small blue sofa bed from Argos probably soon.
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
My daughter has some stuff from Argos that does seem to be lasting quite well. Maybe zenie bought the same or similar pine stuff?? The pine stuff does seem to be ok.
longdog
What is it you can't face?
Another fucking one?
When you and your ten tonnes of books go crashing through to the basement flat don't say I didn't warn you
suzee blue cheese
Well-Known Member
Erm - most of my stuff has been handed down from someone, otherwise gifted, found or bought second hand. Apart from that there are a few Ikea bits. No Argos unless you include the hoover. Mainly because I like to inspect whatever I'm buying to be able to tell how long lived something is likely to be.
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
Tanky got her husband from Argos. And there was a bit missing.
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