I recently discovered this subreddit.
Yay, I am also a fan of buying high quality and buying less often. However, with the way things are made today from materials to low production costs, there are limited things that last a decade much less "for life."
It is fun to see items that are 25, 50+ years old, but that's nearly all this subreddit is. Cool, but aren't we all here because we want to know how to invest our money in things we need? I can't scour all of my local Goodwills for a toaster from '74.
It'd be cool to see things that are no longer in production pinned in one megathread since those threads get limited traction anyway or make a r/BIFLnow subreddit for high quality items that perform well that are currently ON the market and available for sale.
Perhaps the item has to be a minimum of 10 years old, but even then, understand production is constantly changing in nearly every industry, costs are cut in many ways and never are these ways passed to the consumer. Your Wranglers you've worn/washed daily since '85 are irrelevant to what the consumer can expect with the same wear/washes from a pair purchased today.
A mere suggestion.
Submitted February 20, 2018 at 05:45PM by YieldBeforeCrossing http://ift.tt/2C7E41D
