My bedroom chair was a Christmas present. Christmas 1999. It’s still in pretty good shape and needs nothing more than a lumbar cushion. It makes a creaking noise sometimes but it’s been making that noise for more than a decade and it hasn’t gotten any worse so I’m not worried.
My living room chair was bought from slaving away in a warehouse in 2018. One arm fell off, the other is on its last leg, and most of the surface has peeled off and I needed to cover it in a towel.
One chair is old enough to buy alcohol and the other died before its fifth birthday. They both cost the same when new.
Just realized the old chair is 5 times the age of the young chair and it’s probably got another one or two decades of life left.