How to set up house incl. a few useful tips:
1. collect all the things in your parents' house that look a little bit like it kinda might be yours.
2. force parents and siblings to carry said stuff out to the driveway, and pack it into your car for you, so that they feel useful.
3. drive to new place, dump stuff into it.
4. disperse the stuff around your new place, realize that you really only own odds and ends of anything useful, though you have more office supplies than you will EVER NEED.
5. realize you forgot some of the actually useful things that you own at the parents' house, 'cause hey, it didn't look like it ought to belong to you- it was useful. Call parents and beg for them to bring you said items.
6. Go shopping for the rest of the things one actually needs in a household - just the bare minimum to keep it clean. Example: TP, paper towels, comet, 409, broom, trash can, trash bags - THEN realize that your pocketbook will be severely hurt by acquiring these small, generally unnoticed items. Cringe.
7. (simultaneously w/6) CLEAN EVERYTHING. Seriously. If you don't you will regret this later, especially if you have dust allergies and inherited a sofa with the place.
8. Realize that you forgot a few steps in there somewhere- OH YEAH, SHEETS. Frantically run around looking for sheets that actually fit your bed*.
9. Exultantly use your new:
a) dishwasher
b) washing machine/dryer (in a closet no less! so efficient!)
c) stove/oven
d) GARGANTUAN bed. Seriously. You could fit three people in that thing, nevermind two. You could put up walls and call it a bouncy castle.
10. Don't even worry about decoration. That comes later, when you can breathe again.
And the crazy thing is, the whole ordeal is actually a lot of fun. Yes, it's hectic. Yes, you have to be extremely practical, and can't daydream around. But. Having your own place is just cool. Making it look like a real people house instead of a dorm-room-pretending-to-be-the-room-you-had-at-home = awesome.
This is the last post I will make in this style... I promise to return to ideas and such next time around. =)
*Note: no, "full" is not the same as "queen". Do not buy "full" sheets if your bed is queen sized. You will regret this.
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about the office supplies- OMG, yes.
plus you probably need a number 11: buy roach traps and put them all over. unless you're living somewhere pretty nice.
but yeah, you don't EVER want to wake up with some roaches sharing your nice big bed with you. this is just experience speaking, here.
we actually found a crapload of anti-roach stuff around the place in random closets... xD It sorta scared me a tad.
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