Audeo5's Profile

I have to admit, I wanted to try this. However, I'm dating a librarian who basically reorganizes the books in our apartment out of habit. It looks pretty, but with the amount of books that we have, and how many book shelves, it wouldn't be practical. Besides, he has his corner of political non-fiction and I have my corner of fiction and Anthony Bourdain books :D

I would love to have a canopy bed, but with 3 cats, I worry about all the hair that will collect and if they're going to try climbing the curtains.

Thanks Janel! Now if I can only find a cheaper version =/ I love the bed, but $1400 is a bit out of my budget at the moment.

Our get-togethers are almost always pot lock. The hosts have to make a main dish, and then everyone else brings something else and/or a drink.

We had a White Elephant party a few years ago and it got to about 40 people in the apartment! It was hilarious though, because of all the different gifts people brought. Afterwards we brought out more drinks and people started trading gifts. I think potlucks are amazing.

We always play charades. It doesn't seem to get old. However, our group has known each other since high school, and so we kind of know who put's in "The Epic Of Gilgamesh" and other hard ones :) We've had practice.

I've been aching for that Lourdes Sanchez rug for months now and the idea of paying $400 for it is half of the pain.

I love my friends, and my boyfriend's family is always willing to help move. However, I agree with everyone about hiring out. I don't mind packing the boxes myself, and would rather get tired and annoyed at myself or my boyfriend rather than getting annoyed at friends and family. It's just less stress all around when I don't have someone's constant "advice" in my ear.

This all looks gorgeous, but I can't agree with this being a great college budget. Sure, for all those kids who's parents are paying for everything. My dorm room had cheap linoleum, and painted concrete walls. It was spruced up with a lot of wash off paint and chalk.

Thinking it would be cheaper for me to just rent a UHaul, I decided to do everything myself. That wasn't the bad part. The place I was moving out of demanded that I move out by 830am (this means everything out of the apartment and the apartment completely cleaned), the place I was moving into said the place wasn't ready until 5pm.

The guy who was checking my apartment that I was moving out of barely looked at each room, and then walked out and reminded me that I had to move the truck in 10 minutes.

When I call to confirm with my new place about move-in time, they tell me that the tenant hasn't left yet and they will call me. I call at 6pm, 7pm, and then 8pm. I was still told the tenant hadn't left. So I go to the new apartment, knock on the door, figure I can ask how long it would take them to move out (a bit forward, I know) and THEY tell me that the management company hadn't even called them to let them know I was moving in. Then it was a whole ordeal just to get the keys b/c the management office was closing for the day and I wasn't able to get the keys then, but they wouldn't allow me to take the keys from the old tenant without their signed consent. The old tenant was really nice, called the management company to tell them they consented to giving me the keys and were going to do it anyway.

I finally move in at midnight, return the truck, and go to sleep on my mattress that was on the floor surrounded by boxes. 5am I hear a knock on the door; it was the management company saying they were there to clean the apartment "for the new tenant". Pissed, I told them I was the new tenant and that I waive whatever service because I just wanted to go to sleep.

It was basically 3 days of miscommunication, threats and having to email the Renters Rights.