Most of the furniture we have are antique’s and came from Garage Sales, Thrift Stores and Antique Stores. All of our new furniture for the past 25 years has come from either Costco, Sam’s Club or Ikea. We have never paid more than $500 for a Sofa and that was for a huge, very nice leather sofa on clearance at Costco.
Like most of the people here, I know that most rent to own schemes are a rip off. But there a couple of things to note about the article:
1) the author’s assumptions about what the average person pays for household goods
2) the lack of emphasis on the importance of thrift— the lower you go down the income scale, the more important it is.