According to one of the most successful financial investors of our times the value received and not the price paid should be the deciding factor in making purchases.
And think of purchases not just for the present time situation but for the long term time situation.

This principle can also be applied very successfully to residential interior furnishings.

The quality, comfort, use ability, and lasting time are also value characteristics to be considered.

As how it taste is a factor in what we eat so should design aesthetics be a factor in the ambiance of where we live.

People will spend many tens of thousands of dollars for the thrill, status, bragging rights, and showing off of a new car, as if such were required or expected, but become defensive of such numbers when shopping for furnishing for their personal interior living spaces and instead option for sales, preowned, lower quality, and other sources of low prices.

How long do you keep and use your residential interior furnishings versus how long you use and keep a new car?

Well valued home furnishings, when properly maintained, will literally last and look good for decades.

There is a very wise old ism: Purchase cheap, purchase many times. Purchase quality, purchase once.

A wise quality purchase will almost always be a wise value one.

Think these thoughts when being bombarded with the constant advertisements of life.

What is your position and what are your choices when it comes to the prices paid and value received of the furnishings where you live?

Food for thought.