it will, most likely, deteriorate slower. For a bed, thats not a big issue, i guess, its easy to make a new one, but it might be nice for your baskets? if you can put them there, that is
Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.
Also, if you're sleeping in a lean-to, no-one can take stuff out of the lean-to without leaving theft scents. Of course, if you're living in a lean-to, you probably can't see theft scents, but then again, you probably don't have any stuff worth stealing either.