Is there any products where the degradation of quality is more apparent than zippers and you're inner tubes?
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Honestly, your question really got me thinking.
I think the quality of a lot of common products has drastically fallen. I really gravitate toward the whole r/BuyItForLife concept, but something’s just don’t lend themselves to it and others exist in a market where that concept can’t or doesn’t exist.
Furniture in general. Most stuff built commercially after the 1950's is complete junk. Gets wet or suffers an impact and it flakes apart. The plastic veneer shows up unsightly scratches which can't be buffed out with some wax polish.
Just buy old solid wood furniture doesn't break and it looks more attractive too.
We were gifted an old teak dining table and it is beautiful and sturdy.
It is amazing the amount of junk out there.
Yeah it makes me mad everytime I have to go buy something. We’re gonna get a new bed soon, and I’m gonna have to get an ikea (one of the deals with storage drawers under it) because even though I could build something for that same money in materials, I don’t have the time, and In just another month or two my wife won’t be able to get in and out of our current bed cause it’s too tall. But it’s all pressboard and plywood tomfoolery and it’s just yuck.
Good luck. I built it need it of 2x6's that I got for real cheap.
With the price of lumber now it is probably a $100,000 bed.
Shoes/boots.
Cheap hand tools.
Furniture.
Possibly clothes too. Yeah, we’ve got very affordable cheap clothes now and I get like a decade out of a simple t-shirt, but stuff like wool is crazy expensive.
I had left some tee-shirts with my parents 15 years ago. They brought them back to me and they are such better quality than anything I've gotten lately.
They were mostly promo giveaway shirts and still better quality than shirts you pay for now.