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[aemulatio]

I have my first apartment! It's all mine. I will have a key, and a door, and maybe even a bed^1.

I've only ever had my own room twice in my life before, and I lived with other people, so this is a momentous occasion in my young life. SO MUCH CONTROL. I will be an aesthetic dictator. And I will have guests! (It's so typically me that the first

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[erinamelia]

WOO HOO!!! *cheerleader kick* (*breaks lamp*)

That's so awesome. In Chicago, I presume? This is so exciting, I will have to wangle a way to come visit you without flooding peasants in Bangladesh.

In bed terms, and I have though about this a LOT:
1) Craigslist people will sometimes deliver stuff, for extra money.

BUT in big cities in the US nowadays you run a very scary risk: Bedbugs are on the rise. Yes, they're still very uncommon, but as someone who has endured bedbugs - twice - I can tell you right now that I will always scrimp, save, and hock the jewellery to avoid any possibility of encountering them again.

2) Ikea does deliver. It ain't cheap, but their mid-range stuff does past forever. Nice mattresses, too. Put it on the credit card and hope for the best?

[erinamelia]

Not that I laid awake at night on the cramped, lumpen futon Matt and I shared for a year and a half, fantasizing about Ikea beds....

NB: 'last' forever... you knew what I meant.

[vox_dei]

I feel the same way! I did have an apartment to myself once before, but it didn't quite feel as though it were my own place as it was in a dorm building in China. Anyway, I too am extremely excited about decorating freedoms (is it just me or are our freedoms becoming increasingly bland?) and the ability to host guests. Did you go for grad student housing or is your building not affiliated with the school? I have a studio apartment in a university-owned building.

You might want to check out marketplace.uchicago.edu . Most things posted seem to be on the free>cheap side.

[anonymous]

Definitely not a stylistic decision. Thank you for making my aesthetic choices possible.
A xx