DOOM: Great Furniture Delay: ‘We’ll be eating Christmas dinner on our camping tables’

[AtW]

"The £800 Townhouse dining table is an “elegant, sturdy classic” built for gathering round. Marsha Moore’s £20 melamine camping table, with a surface area of less than a square metre, is not, and certainly not where she imagined eating Christmas dinner.

But Moore, a writer who recently moved into an unfurnished flat in London with her husband and son, is one of many Britons trapped in a furniture nightmare before Christmas after deliveries of key pieces such as sofas, tables and beds were delayed by supply chain disruption.

“We have been eating at camping tables since we moved in in early November,” says Moore, who selected products, including a sofa, with the shortest wait time after being advised that orders could take up to 25 weeks.

After her dining table’s arrival was bumped to 2022 she headed to Decathlon for a second substitute surface. “Now we’ve got two of them pushed together and some folding chairs we got from Argos … we will be eating Christmas dinner on our camping tables.”

Her family is not alone. Social media is full of tales of furniture woe and pictures of empty rooms as, even after long waits, new purchases fail to materialise, with one longsuffering shopper even giving it a name: the “Great Furniture Delay” of 2021."

https://www.theguardian.com/business...camping-tables

Still waiting for my new sofa

[SueEllen]

Well you should have ordered it before Brexit.

You had a few years.

[SueEllen]

Or you can use these:

Thanks to a new wave of retailer all is not lost for households desperate for a sofa to sit on. Companies such as Snug and Swyft sell modular sofas with rapid turnaround times that can be clicked together in different configurations.

After three weeks without a sofa Janet Bell, a single mum with two teenage children, banked a refund through PayPal, and took a risk, ordering a sofa online she had not physically tested out. Five days later she was sitting on a cloud. A Snug Cloud Sundae corner sofa to be precise. “It arrived on time and it is fab,” she reports. “I love it, the kids love it, my cats love it.”

[Paddy]

Wallpaper table from Screwfix for about £15 plus a white table cloth for £20. Job done. FFS, half the world sit on the floor and eat.

[ladymuck]

Loads of excellent second hand furniture to be had out there, ready to be delivered.

[SueEllen]

Loads of excellent second hand furniture to be had out there, ready to be delivered.

Why tell him?

I don't want to be fighting with him to get furniture.

[AtW]

Loads of excellent second hand furniture to be had out there, ready to be delivered.

Just fallen off the UPS truck?

[Mordac]

Wallpaper table from Screwfix for about £15 plus a white table cloth for £20. Job done. FFS, half the world sit on the floor and eat.

This.

Talk about first world problems. Wait till she finds out her Ocado order has substitutions...

[hairymouse]

Loads of excellent second hand furniture to be had out there, ready to be delivered.

Sign up for freecycle and be amazed at the amount of stuff being thrown out every day. You could have 3 tables and 4 sofas in a week for free.

[Gibbon]

Wallpaper table from Screwfix for about £15 plus a white table cloth for £20. Job done. FFS, half the world sit on the floor and eat.

That's my childhood, also no carpets and orange crates for stools, ice on the inside of the windows etc. And fecking lead shot infested rabbit apart from Sunday.