Well, it is laundry time again. However, I am busier trying to understand 'why' furniture is so expensive.

While there have been occasional exceptions:

Why should product b, that contains half the cost in materials cost twice as much as product a? Now I have seen this for tables, hutches, and chest of drawers. Consistently, the item with 'pretty' fiber board, plywood, and veneer, costs more than the real wood item. Naturally, each and every sales person says that their item is worth so much more because they have 'xyz' that the other companies do not place in their furniture.
So far, I think I will get most of my furniture from the 2 most reasonably priced unfinished furniture places that I have found.

Really, why does shopping for furniture feel like you are walking into a trap?

I just do not get 'it'. Oh well.