With the continuous rise of people's pursuit of home quality, more and more new household items have entered our lives.
However, when buying household items, we often only focus on their appearance and function, but ignore the problems in actual use. Recently, when I was chatting with friends, we talked about the household items that we all regretted buying, which can be called the "9 big idle" of modern families.
✦1 TV cabinet
In modern society, people choose to use wall-mounted TVs more often, so TV cabinets have become a dispensable piece of furniture in home decoration. In addition, the TV cabinet also takes up valuable space, which is not conducive to cleaning, if you really want the storage space of the TV cabinet, you can also customize the floating TV cabinet to match the storage.
In addition, the design of TV backdrops takes a lot of time and money, and as TV technology continues to evolve, these backdrops are becoming more and more difficult to adapt to new TV models. At the same time, the decoration style of the TV background wall may become outdated over time and need to be renovated.
✦ 2 sofa beds
While a sofa bed can provide extra sleeping space, it is often not comfortable enough and has a short lifespan. Sofa beds tend to spread out too much and not only take up space in the living room, but are also extremely underused. In addition, when the sofa bed is used, the coffee table and carpet should be cleaned up, which affects the overall layout of the living room. If you really need extra sleeping space, you can choose to invest in furniture such as an air mattress or a folding bed, which is often more practical to store away from taking up less space.
✦ 3 extra coffee tables
When buying a coffee table cabinet, I always think that more is better, and I am worried that there are not enough things. However, in actual use, too many coffee table cabinets not only occupy valuable space in the living room, but also have a very low usage rate. Eventually, some coffee tables had to be moved to other rooms or thrown away. What's more, the minimalist style and small apartment that are now highly regarded advocate the abandonment of traditional coffee tables.
✦ 4 Fitness equipment
The rise of the fitness trend has made more and more people pay attention to fitness equipment. If you have spare gym equipment at home, such as dumbbells, horizontal bars, or treadmills, you may consider selling them to those who need them. Not only will this provide you with some extra income, but it will also help others get opportunities to exercise and health, freeing up a lot of space for your home.
✦ 5 massage chairs
When I saw the massage chairs in the mall, I always felt that I could enjoy the comfort of massage at home in the future. However, massage chairs often accumulate dust in the home, and the cost is expensive, which not only wastes money, but also takes up valuable space in the home.
✦6 fold-out dining tables
At first, I thought that folding tables could save space when not in use, but in practice, folding tables are not used very often. Due to the complex structure of the folding table, it is easy to damage and the maintenance cost is high. In addition, folding tables are less stable and sometimes wobbly.
✦ 7 open bookshelves
At the beginning, in order to make the home look more bookish, a large number of open bookshelves were customized. However, these bookshelves are prone to dust accumulation and need to be cleaned frequently. At the same time, the design of the open bookshelf allows books and sundries to be stacked messily, which affects the aesthetics of the home.
✦8 Too many small kitchen appliances
When I see advertisements for small kitchen appliances, I always feel that these small appliances can improve the quality of life. However, in the process of daily use, most of the small appliances are idle, and you probably don't want to use them, or you are too lazy to use them because they need to be moved and cleaned. Too many small appliances not only take up space in the kitchen, but also make the kitchen cluttered.
✦9 Storage tools
In order to make the most of the space at home, some people place an online order for a variety of storage tools, such as storage boxes, portable lockers, mobile shelves, etc. However, in actual use, the usage rate of these storage tools is not high, and even the effect obtained is counterproductive, resulting in these tools being placed in the home to fall into dust, and more space is wasted.
Through these lessons learned from my friends and me, we can draw the following conclusions: when buying household items, you should consider its actual use value and family needs more rationally, and avoid blindly following the trend of buying. Only in this way can we truly bring comfort and convenience to our home life.