For me, it’s a combination of not being partnered, but thinking I might be at some point in the future and also having moved a lot. But I actually like most of my furniture at this point. When I moved this last time (which was actually 5 years ago!), I upgraded my couch, dresser, nightstand and coffee table to “adult” furniture (all Ikea or Target though, but nicer than standard particle board issue). I also had to get a couple of area rugs (the burden of renting with hardwood floors). My parents were IMMENSELY helpful in my bid to upgrade my furniture, which is the only way I was able to do it. I do need a new mattress, like whoa.

And we’ve talked about this before, but I feel you on the furniture from your parents and their parents thing. My mom has a storage full of antique furniture from her parents’ house that she doesn’t have room for in her house but has to keep because family. We haven’t had the conversation about what happens to it after grandpa passes and my parents get too old to live on their own. At this point, there is no further generation to pass it down to beyond me (and I don’t plan on there being), so am I assuming responsibility for the B family bed and all? It’s hard. There are only a few pieces of my parents’ stuff that I’d want for nostalgia’s sake (even though they go with nothing I own), much less my grandparents’ or further back.