Not everything around us is cheap badly made rubbish designed to be thrown away in a few years and end up as landfill (OK a lot of it is!) but we have future antiques too things we take for granted and ignore that maybe your grandchildren will treasure...one example is our current "floating floor" laminated floorboards just about indestructible waterproof...the thing I noticed is that when it is installed it looks pretty good...but after 5 or 6 years of having dogs skidding around, furniture and other items being dragged across it...it takes on a great patina it really starts to look REALLY beautiful with heavy wear. I predict that in even 50 years, people are going to pay WAY more for "vintage" laminate flooring. Look around you, there must be lots of other things we have totally missed...and they are all hiding in plain sight!