It’s fun to experiment with trends, especially when it’s vintage or thrifted, but specifically hunting for trendy items may mean that you’ll deep six it when the trend is “over.” “It can be easy to fall in love with a trend when it floods our algorithms, but it's just as easy to fall out of love with it once your favorite design influencer says it gives them ‘the ick,’” says McKeen. That’s why you want to develop your taste beyond trends and instead focuses on what you genuinely likes. “Before buying something, ask yourself, ‘Am I buying this because it's trendy, or because I genuinely love it?’” “It can be hard to untangle the two, but the pieces you genuinely love can still be in your home 20 years from now, while the trendy piece may end up in a Goodwill bin by the end of the decade.”