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Bunk Beds and Loft Beds - Building Your Own vs. Buying Ready Made There are a lot of good reasons why you might choose to build your own bed, instead of buying one ready made. The most commonly cited reason, which may or may not be relevant to you, is the price. Building a bed tends to be much cheaper then buying one ready made, although if you buy second hand you can get a good, rugged bunk bed for under $150. You might be able to get a new one at that price, as well, but I seriously doubt that any bed you buy that cheaply will be well made enough to be worth having. As you know, if you want quality, it will come at a price... Unless you buy it from someone else. Why should you get a bunk bed? Are you in need of space in your children's rooms? If you are like most modern families the answer is a huge Y-E-S! It seems that in our modern society the proliferation of stuff is almost out of control. This is largely a result of the industrial revolution finding cheap labor in Asia, particularly China. Children are able to have a huge abundance of nice things and yet we have not figured out what to do with all of it. The exceptionally large number of children's toys, in particular, has led to a problem that generations before us seldom, if ever, have had to deal with. Where do we put all of this stuff? Modern homes are often larger, and American families are often smaller, than their ancestors and yet kids' things take up far more room than they ever did before. Most of us never had to deal with this kind of abundance as children, so it is largely a new problem. The answer lays in the old adage 'a place for everything and everything in its place'. It is up to us as adults to give kids a place for everything that we provide them so when we tell them to clean up their rooms, they know what we mean, and they can.

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