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Why is patio furniture SO EXPENSIVE?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not looking for anything fancy, I'm not planning elaborate garden parties or wanting to have a really nice place. I just want a few chairs and maybe a little table, but it's all SO FREAKING EXPENSIVE. The stuff that's affordable is really bad quality. The stuff that's even semi-decent quality is super expensive. I don't remember it always being like this?

Granted, indoor furniture is also sky-high these days, but it's killing me that even stuff to go outside is so high. Uggghhhhh I'm tired of life costing so much.

Re: Why is patio furniture SO EXPENSIVE?

[(Anonymous)]

Might be worth getting a costco membership for a month to buy some. That is where my sister got her couch and it is great.

Re: Why is patio furniture SO EXPENSIVE?

[(Anonymous)]

You in the US? Probably tariffs, disrupted supply chains, and the like. All hail our glorious leader.

Re: Why is patio furniture SO EXPENSIVE?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, everything is crazy expensive these days but even before patio furniture was so unreasonably high. And it's not like you're even getting nice stuff! Just general crap quality plastic furniture is expensive. It's been like this for the past 10 years at least, because that's when I moved into my first house with a yard (rental) and started looking for outdoor furniture and was shocked the prices.

Re: Why is patio furniture SO EXPENSIVE?

[(Anonymous)]

This is my experience too. It's been going on for quite awhile, I remember even a few years before COVID hit and things got so weird and messed up, I wanted to get a few basic chairs for my back porch and it surprised me how much they cost. Even the cheapest ones you can buy are not exactly cheap, and they are generally such bad quality they won't last more than a year or so.

Re: Why is patio furniture SO EXPENSIVE?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes! Even the "cheap" stuff is expensive and it never lasts long. I try and look for local used furniture but people seem to hang onto it until it's falling apart.

Re: Why is patio furniture SO EXPENSIVE?

[(Anonymous)]

Yay late state capitalism. :(

Re: Why is patio furniture SO EXPENSIVE?

[(Anonymous)]

the last time I genuinely shopped for deck furniture was like 12 years ago, but I think a lot of it is trends. before HGTV and social media in general made backyard aesthetics trendy, it was reasonable unless you were looking at redwood or quality metal, which I expected an arm and a leg for. the economy, tariffs, etc are part of it but it wouldn't be jacked up if it wasn't trendy. even the shitty plastic, yeah.

to be fair, patio furniture being left outside doesn't help its longevity, but it used to be that was planned for. the treatment on the wood, coating the metal, it would at least hold out for a while. now, I see these instagram curated photos of yards with fabric cushions and pillows left out everywhere on untreated wicker, like....?! yeah it looks pretty on your insta but that shit's gonna rot in one season and Home Despot will happily charge you triple for a replacement. good job making it worse for the rest of us.

Re: Why is patio furniture SO EXPENSIVE?

[(Anonymous)]

It really is!

One thing I like is heavy cast aluminum, but forget about it.

Iron is not bad if you can find some. Even secondhand, if you hit it with some rustoleum spray paint in a nice color, it's like new.

I have wicker that was under the eaves and it all got split from the water. So mad. I should have brought it inside during bad weather, I guess, but who wants to?