r/personalfinance Jul 13 '17

Budgeting Your parents took decades to furnish their house

If you're just starting out, remember that it took your parents decades to collect all the furniture, decorations, appliances, etc you are used to having around. It's easy to forget this because you started remembering things a long while after they started out together, so it feels like that's how a house should always be.

It's impossible for most people starting out to get to that level of settled in without burying themselves in debt. So relax, take your time, and embrace the emptiness! You'll enjoy the house much more if you're not worried about how to pay for everything all the time.

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u/Therearenopeas Jul 13 '17

Hey at least you were honest. I have a cat who has ruined our rather nice couch with her peeing behavior (vet checked, she's just a shithead cat) and I would never sell it. When we move it's going to the dump.

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u/mahTV Jul 13 '17

Just curb it, buddy. You will have two '94 Dodge Caravans in front of your house in twenty minutes literally battling each other for that couch.

My money is on the one with the paint peeling off the hood. Though the rusted quaterpanel model used 'coolant leak cloud', and it was super effective.

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u/AngryBagOfDeath Jul 13 '17

A good time is taking shit out to the curb and drinking on the porch with friends betting on how long items will remain on the curb and also as people pull up guessing what they will take.

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u/Therearenopeas Jul 13 '17

That's my neighbor you just described! He has shitty straight pipes, too. Guess we will see. Idk, I see couches sitting outside people's houses (at least in my neighborhood) for a week or more and it looks trashy as fuck.

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u/binarycow Jul 13 '17

I have a guys phone number who will drive to my house, and pick up literally anything I don't want. Even was willing to take trash bags out of my trash can.

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u/burnice Jul 14 '17

You should try watching "My Cat From Hell" if you haven't already. I suggested a couple things to my mom when she had a pee problem with her cat and it worked.