June might be a bit early to start hording furniture and such for an August move, but that's not stopping me from doing it.
I'm setting aside Saturdays to hit local yard sales-- there's been some luck with that already: my folks and I found a nice table and four chairs for $25.
Thriftiness is a real issue with all of this. Tori and I can't swim in our big vault of gold like Scrooge McDuck, so we have to furnish our apartment on a budget.
Which means that our place will be a fine example of Great American Left-Overs.
It's surprising how everything's coming together, though. Nothing we have so far is particularly fancy and I doubt that we'd be able to go to some antiques expert and find out that the dresser we pulled out of my parents' garage is now worth millions of dollars, but the stuff we have is charming in its own odd way.
I guess this experience isn't uncommon-- first apartments are probably supposed to have that vaguely confused here-and-there look. But it's a first for me. I've never had a place of my own to furnish as I please (er... within the budget).
It's kinda nice, even if everything does have to be second-hand (and sometimes third- or fourth-hand).
4 years ago
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I know the feeling- we're getting ready to move into a new house and don't have enough furniture. And I don't have the money to get it, lol!
Heck, you have seen our house... we still have hand me downs!
heath and i have been out of college for five years--we're just now getting first-generation furniture and are allowed to paint our walls whatever color we darn well please.
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