broke motherfucker

so for the past two and a half weeks i've been living without furniture in my new apartment.

well, not quite. for a few days now i've had some coffeetables to set things on. and there have been boxes.

well, i'm starting to get my place sorted out and cleaned little by little....

and the lack of furniture is starting to get to me.

i need a sofa at least. i can deal without having a bed. in fact, i prefer sleeping on the floor.

but i can't find a reasonably attractive, comfortable looking sofa anywhere. i dont know how i'll be able to afford one in anywhere close to the near future. there are so many other necessities, plus i owe my father 300 bucks and a little to the bank, and i just found out today my windshiled wipers work - but only when i press the button to make them go three times....the settings for continuous action dont work anymore. so i'll need to get that fixed soon.

ugh...i'm probably gonna need to try and find a roommate. i really, really dont want one, though, and will try and make a go of this for a little while more.

 

I hope things work out for you bro, been there.

But you have to admit it is good to be the king!

 

its fucking nice having a place to myself....

i can just afford to live here, though, its gonna be hard to afford to furnish it.

but no worries - i've got a couple chairs at my parents house i can bring over if i can fit them in my car. worse comes to worse i could bring one of the many folding camping chairs or something similar just for a little while till i can afford a futon.

the trick will be maintaining a pretty frugal existance in order to save money. i find it very hard to do...why bother buying a 6pack of budweiser when i can buy two big bottles of really good beer? if i have the money, its hard for me to save it. but i have to, for many reasons.

oh well, first things first. i need a can opener so i can get to the coconut milk and olives (going in seperate dishes, dont worry!)

 

i would hate to be stuck on a deserted island with canned food and no can opener

 

nesta.. corners man.. street corners... almost all the furnature i have owned is from some sort of hand me down.. just go cruising one day and look for furnature left out on the street.. i've gotten some pretty nice things before.. right now i have a set of Ethan Allen collection chairs that i got from a corner.. they are sorta retro.. pea green/off yellow.. but they are comfortable and in great shape...

 

^ also you can drive around on garbage days through neighborhoods. Theres sometimes really nice shit that ppl throw away....not that I do this though lol

 

go to a thrift store. you can get pretty nice furniture for like 10 bucks or less

 

^^^ strictly furniture for me.. im not a garbage digger..

 

hell yea... goodwill has some really good furniture at times

 

Goodwill seems like just the place for you, nesta. My grandparents are in real estate and own over 3 million dollars worth of houses, and they still buy furniture at Goodwill. I remember they bought this nice ass sofa for about 20 dollars. Actually, the computer chair im sittin in now was from goodwill. About 10 bucks.

 

i know thrift stores are a good idea, but i drive a shitty 95 mustang convertable that doesnt convert any longer. plenty of leg room, but not ideal for moving something. also at under 25 years of age i can't rent a truck or something.

i could make a habit of popping into some thrift stores here and there to scope out the place and then if i've found something i like paying my folks to rent a truck and help me move it. but it would be easier if i could just get something delivered and then assemble it myself or something.

either way, the bulk of these things are luxuries, not necessities. its just i've never gone so long without anything other than the floor to sit or lay down on. i never realized how much sofas and chairs kick ass.

i'm fine, its nothing more than a luxury item that i can do without. so for now, i will

however i did go to the store and bought some less expensive luxury items....a two dollar can opener, some sam adams octoberfest, and a bottle of seagrams seven (cheap but drinkable...but i may need to get some seven up for 7/7s sometime in the near future)

 

dude check out your city: www.craigslist.com

Thats how my roommate and I got 2 free couches that are actually nice. You just have to shop around a little bit, and the free shit goes quick, so you gotta be on your toes when you're scannin that site.

 

you know the funny thing is i'm just lazy. i have a perfectly good* couch at my parents' house that used to belong to my late grandmother, but it is very old and very, very, very heavy. its an oldfashioned fold-out couch with a reasonably comfortable bed. all in all its a nice sofa. but its so. fucking. heavy.

i moved it once into an apartment right out of highschool. my first and so far favorite apartment, it was a two story townhouse with a basement and back patio - perfect! my own house! well, in front of the front door were two stairs up to a stoop. after the door was the living room. moving that couch into so simple a place as that with TWO people nearly broke the backs of both. moving it out, and into my parents house, required three people. it had to be moved into the room on the side of the house, behind the garage, where the computer and shit is. the "den"

it had to go through a fence into a backyard to come in through the side door, because bringing it through inside doorways proved to be impossible, or very difficult at best.

now i live on the second floor of an apartment complex with a relatively narrow walkway in front of my apartment and no other means of entry. i COULD get the couch in here, and just might, but it would require a LOT of annoying effort. i would rather let my parents keep it and just get a futon...

its my own laziness and general tendency towards american consumerism, like many people, even those who despise such behavior, here exhibit in one form or another....




*"perfectly good" in this context meaning "less than three cigarette burns and less than two pounds of dog hair covering it - otherwise comfortable and attractive"

 

Look on the bright side Nesta, I am a practicing
full on devotee yogin, and when I moved into my
place, I wanted it COMPLETLEY empty of anything
other than my son's crib, so that I could have it
as a little temple, free from material comforts and
attachments.
Two days before I move in, my ex and my friend
Brian both call me and ask if they can bring
everything they own and store it in my place, free
of charge, because they have nowhere to keep it.
Funny how life works huh?

 

indeed.

while i would be more comfortable with a couch or sofa, i realize it is an unnecessary item and a vain desire. i am perfectly happy sitting on the floor much of the time, and am perfectly content also to sleep on the floor....but after work when i get home....sometime i just want to take off my work clothes, stretch out on the couch, pack the bong and open a beer.


dreadfully indulgant, i know, but its so nice a feeling......


i have all these ideas on how to make this apartment perfect for me, so comfortable, so cool....but it all involves buying a lot more stuff that i dont NEED


i really ought to be grateful i have a warm room to sleep in at night time, some blankets, a pillow, a shower and toilet, three sinks, somewhere to wash my clothes and dishes, food, clean water to drink.....i am blessed, and yet i can't get past the fact that my arthritic knees are getting tired from sitting crosslegged all the time for a couple weeks.

it will be nice to get, but i suppose i should avoid rushing it. really if i get a couch and a chair or two, i will be all set as far as comfort is concerned.

i'm finding i may also have more trouble funding my agricultural aspirations than i initially suspected. perhaps i should first turn to a mycological venture and see if i can use it to fund the botanical experimentation.....

but that might violate my ethics, and i would prefer not to try it.

i should think storing their belongings for them might be a vitruous act of sorts. perhaps it wouldnt be so bad, if you had a room out of the way in which to place their belongings where they wouldnt bother you.

 

iwas talking about value village if you have them where you live.
decent, fairly clean shit for under $10

 

value village?

 

Check out craigs list and as far as the wipers go to the auto parts store and get a wiper switch. I can walk you through swapping it out if you need help.

 

have a party and make pepople pay to get in

 

hahahaha


yeah, i'll invite people over, and when they get here say "sorry, you gotta pay to come inside"



and everyone will leave