Marketplace

It marks the end of an era for locally made flat pack furniture, but it got me thinking about how much the way we furnish our homes has actually shifted.

So how do you shop for furniture these days? Are you scouring something like Facebook Marketplace for hidden gems, ordering online, or do you still need to head into a showroom to actually have a look at the furniture before you commit to buying it? Now, Aussie Heritage Furniture brand TH Brown is one that's been around for a while, and Tony Briggs-Brown joins us on the line.

Hello, Tony.

Hello.

Thank you for joining us.

We're seeing people take a more considered approach to buying furniture, I guess, but...

Rather than furnishing an entire room at once, they might be going out and picking and choosing individual items, like I said, from somewhere like Facebook Marketplace, where 20 or 30 years ago, when you moved out of home and you were young and you were on a tight budget, you'd go to Fantastic Furniture and just buy a whole bunch of stuff for the house, wouldn't you?

I did it myself.

You

didn't want to deal with people at Marketplace, to be fair.

I've had people in my house all day, every day, fixing little bits and bobs.

I probably could have done with the cash.

It ran fine, but I gave it to you, actually.

Then you turned around and sold it on Marketplace.

We did.

I

He just wanted to use blowers just to use them.

I'm thinking, I only have two blowers there in the lineup, but if I do get a new one, you just sell the old one.

And they sell like hotcakes there on Facebook Marketplace.

Waltie, well, Waltie, that's a new one.

it.

I reckon if I put it on Marketplace, someone would offer me maybe a beer.

They'll ask you to drink the beer just to

take it off.

And then I was like, I'll just buy a cheap mower.

So I got one off Marketplace.

And I was always just like, oh, I'll just buy secondhand gear.

I'll just buy cheap and cheerful.

We can expect to see some traffic roll into town this afternoon for the weekend.

Please make sure you utilize the free shuttle from Marketplace to get down to Tapleys Farm's 43rd annual Halloween neighborhood community event.

It's Switzerland's longest running free community event.

Yeah, 43rd year.

Generally a size lower, but it depends on the brand, again.

So best to try it out, but you can buy like secondhand kits You know when people sign up for Derby and they buy the whole thing and then they'll sell it as a whole group on Marketplace or eBay or something that and they've used it twice That's some way of getting Gary, you know, I'm hoping to make some very affordable gear packages available So that that's sort of the flex goal for myself, you know, I love you know what I love everything I love

everything about this.

It's social.