Hi, Cred Forums. This is my new apartment

Posting on Cred Forums because you fell positive. People will be along to insult you soon enough . People that have nothing positive in their life will want to bring you back down to their shitty level

Congratulations user. Most people your age don't move out until much later. Your home is your castle. Be picky who you let in

take your xbox off the floor, other than that i wanna move out too, and i get paid 11 an hour.

have a third place to spend time in. 1st is home, 2nd is work, 3rd ??? Pub, climbing gym, brothel, church, coffee shop.. doesn't really matter. Opens the door to good interactions, enjoy it!

Shut the hell up
No ones going to tell him anything you piece of shit

This.

Also congrats. I remember when I first moved out it was exciting.

Enjoy your new freedom my friend

You either live in a retardedly expensive city or are terrible at managing your money if you work full time and can't afford to move out of your parents house

Don't expect to get your deposit back. Ever

Don't rent a bottom floor unit

Watch some youtube videos that teach you about bedbugs

Keep the kitchen clean. Food = bugs

Don't rent from arabs or indian landlords they are the worst.

If you can get a reliable roommate rent a house next time. You can get a good deal right now and throw bigger parties and generate less police complaints. Get a firepit for out back draws chicks in like crazy in the summer/fall.

Buy some canvases and paints and makes some simple art to hang on your walls to snazz up the joint.

Your rooms gay, your tv sucks, and you will never be happy.

You can't fix a window if you dont have all the pieces you fuckwit.

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If you have people over keep ALL of your valuable in a padlocked room

2 of the first 3 replies were exactly as you described you raging turd.

good on you man!

Congratulations. Having your first place is an awesome feeling. You should get a cat.

If you can rotate that bed so the head is at the window. That way light isn't shining in your face (or your partners face). That being said leave room for her to get in and out of bed on the other side. Most girls arn't going to like the sleeping against the wall thing.

Put it in the middle

Good job. My brother moved out from my mom's house this year, he's 36...

If you are 21 and you arn't working on college/certs or working your way up in a trade quality job like IT or electronics maintenance you are wasting your time and everything you do from now until you get to the point where you are doing what i said above is meaningless and pathetic.

This, dont trust anyone you dont trust, people are humans and humans are shit.

Be friendly with neighbours but don't take any shit, but don't be unfriendly in not taking any shit.

Always pay your bills, make some savings incase shit hits the fan.

Congrats OP. Take hundreds of pictures of the place for when you move out and the landlord inevitably tries to ream you on some kind of existing damage. I mean take pictures of the baseboards, corners of walls, cabinets, etc.

Also, get a bed frame to diminish the creepy-aspect of your room. You can pick them up for cheap on Amazon. Make your bedroom a bedroom. No computer monitor. Save all of that shit for the living room. Your goal should be to spend as little time in your bed room as possible.

You need some more lighting to brighten things up, too. Hang some nice posters on the wall.

Also: LEARN HOW TO FUCKING MAKE YOUR BED. GET THOSE WRINKLES OUT OF HERE!

Fuck. I was married & had a kid by 29. Different world.

the feels

Did you get reamed in the ass by the great depression pt 2?

>dont trust anyone you dont trust
M'k. Also, don't see anyone you don't see, don't hear anyone you don't hear...

It's still that world. 36 is a shamefur dispray.

I existed in the early 90's. It was awesome.

Place looks good OP. Wish you all the best for your continuing adventures into adulthood

The reason why you posted this matter on Cred Forums might be because you wanted others acknowledge your existance and success. Why I think so? Experience.

Tagging on to my last post.

GET RID OF THOSE DAMN WIRES OP. ARE YOU ON LIFE SUPPORT? No? Hide that shit.

Rule 1 for the bedroom: Only use for dressing/undressing, fucking, and sleeping. No TV or work.

Rule 2: NO eating in bed. Don't be a lazy, fat, fuck.

Force yourself out of bed every morning at a decent our (7 or 8 AM if possible). Immediately take a shower. You will feel great. It is easy to get stuck into a cycle of being tired all day, and this is usually caused by laying in bed all day.

Also, keep a spare rag in a drawer next to every sink. Wipe down the sink after every use, and wipe down the shower too. This will save you from scuzz build up. Trust me, if you don't do it for 6 months your place will look like shit. It's the little things that count.

You also need a real bed set. 5 piece or more. Get 2 king pillows with covers, 2 queens, and 2 throw pillows. Women love this shit.

NO eating over the carpet. If you are an amateur, then don't launch jizz onto a chick's face while she's on the carpet. You'll probably miss and forget about it. You'll be wondering what that smell is forever.

Be careful if the owner asks for any favors outside your apartment. Sometimes a landlord will do that for free labor. Also if something sounds legally questionable, it probably is.

It's more fair to say that adulthood is not a solid marker, but a slow transition. There are some people who have what you may consider all the markings for being an adult but never act or think accordingly, so it's a bit of a grey field.

Also, depending on your state, your landlord MUST give you 24 hours of notice to enter (unless it's an emergency). This is part of your rights as a tenant. Get EVERYTHING you discuss with your landlord in writing. If you have a verbal conversation, send him a follow-up email stating, "Hey landlord, I just wanted to confirm/remind you of what we talked about earlier..."

Be nice to your neighbors, but be firm. Do not be a pushover. If it's 11 PM on Wednesday night, and they won't stop blaring Mexican music, or the girlfriend is moaning like an air-raid siren, put your foot down. Don't be passive aggressive and start slamming things. 2 wrongs don't make a right.

Arm yourself. If you get room mates, make sure they share your mindset.
youtube.com/watch?v=thVhVjn59mg

I agree with almost everything you said but wiping the sink down after every use it a bit much. If I just brushed my teeth then the water has gotten rid of everything. I guess if you are crazy messy and spit toothpaste all over the sides of the sink and taps then yeah wipe them but otherwise it isn't necessary. A simple weekly or biweekly clean will be sufficient.

Congrats user! Best of luck with everything!

It's about hard water stains, jitwad. I'm not worried about toothpaste, spit, or food in the sink. Obviously the water washes it away. Your sink will go from looking like one in a hospital to one in an abandoned meat packing plant. Disgusting.

The hard water (depending where you live) WILL build up. You won't notice it because you've been normalized over the course of a year.

If this menial task is too much work for you, then try using Rain X. I am currently experimenting with this as a means to keep the shower clean. I apply it once every 2 weeks, using it just as I would on a car. Seems to be working good.

And again, this won't seem like much work if YOU GET OUT OF THE FUCKING HOUSE. Do something with your life. Find hobbies. Find friends.

You'll be amazed at how low your electricity and water bills are when you are using someone else's facilities.

Funny thing is that he now starts experiencing the world and behaves like a teen in puberty... awkward is all I can say :-)

You're brainwashed! You should learn to work for your self and make real money.

How much do you pay for rent?

$10/hr is fucking nothing, pretty much not enough to live on. Unless you are working 60hr work weeks. I wouldn't really call it a good job, you are get a much better one pretty easy. If you don't mind into going into a trade (like becoming a electrician) they will hire with little to no background and on the spot. Most start off with $15+.

I'm a electrical apprentice making $21/hr working 40-60hr a week (normally 50+ Hr a week). Taking home around $800-1000 every week after taxes, yet I still live with roommates in a house I rent. If I was going to rent a place for $800+, I might as well just buy a house and pay for a house payment. Now I only pay $285 and fine with it, and have good friends to get drunk with. And even with my money, I would hate to waste it on a shitty apartment.

I have no idea how or why you would want to live with no spending cash. Might as well live at home, what you are doing is dumb. If your car took a shit, you would probably have no money to fix it, and most likely will rake up CC Debt.

Sounds like you live in California, just like me.

Move to Oregon, where you can buy a 3 bedroom house for $50k.

No living room pics?

Don't tell me you spend all your time in your bed room when you have a entire place to yourself. Might as well go back home to mommy if that is the case.

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Grade A statement, amigo.

NEVER spend all of your time in the bedroom. You will turn into a fucking sloth in no time. Bedroom, again, is for: dressing/undressing, fucking, sleeping.

Not eating, not watching TV, not even napping. If you need a nap, get a couch and hit the hay for 30 minutes.

You are such a worthless creature, how the FUCK can you be satisfied with living in a fucking shitty apartment getting paid minimum wage?? And you're fucking 21 years old, jesus dude I know people younger than you who make more money and are still not satisfied. Get some fucking ambition you fucking pleb.

Good job, OP. It's amazing to finally get out. Dig the minimalist look. Simple and uncluttered, less shit to clean/move. Keep up the good work.

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But I'm never home, living out of hotels everyweek on the company's dime. I'm only home on the weekends, so having my own house doesn't really make sense atm. But plan on getting one in the next year or so, and getting roommates. That way the are pretty much paying my mortgage.

Still you can't make it on $10/hr by yourself, so OP must be spending all his money on it. Which is bad, 40-50% of your monthly income should only go to rent/utilities/food/etc/. If you are in the 80-90% zone, you are pretty much fucked.

Right, maybe op lives in Hagerstown, MD

Good Work, guy probably gets buy on top roman....

He makes $10/hr and moved out on his own with no roommates. He should be living at home, and a responsible adult would in his predicament. Probably can't afford living room furniture, so probably spends all his time in a empty apt in his bedroom. As his bed is the only seat in the house.

You'll learn in a few months OP. I'm 20 and make $10 an hour living in similar conditions. I'm losing money every month and starve some days to save money. Thought about killing myself a couple of times.

Does your mom hate you or something. Move back in with your parents....

Suck it up.

You only move out if you can afford it.

Well if you are limited in space, a bedroom also makes a decent office if it is big enough....

And I'm someone that needs an office, so I have an entire room dedicated to it. But back at my old place, I didn't have the room....

So a bedroom can be used as more. Especially if you have roommates.

I was kicked out because my conservative parents think that being 18, you should fend for yourself.

I'm losing my mind. No one will hire me because I have a high school diploma, can't apply for FAFSA until I'm 24 to even have a chance to better my life.

I fucking hate starving every other day. I wonder if I should just beg on the streets.

This. It will boost your self esteem, you will feel better physically (and therefore mentally), and it gets you out of your apartment and into a public place on a regular basis. And take the fucking time to go to to grocery store and actually prepare yourself wholesome and decently healthy meals.

Oh, and keep your place clean so if you ever do invite people over they will see that you're a responsible adult and not some fucking manchild who marinates in his own stench. Some male friends may not give a shit, but girls will definitely notice

>Don't expect to get your deposit back. Ever
Either you've lived in shithole crack house apartments or you live like a fucking slob, I've gotten my deposit back from every place I've lived in.

Trade jobs will hire!

Doesn't matter what it is, they will give you a shot. You will be wearing workboots and work outside all day long. But you will easily make twice what you do now.

Just give some a call, that is all one needs to do. If you suck with powertools, and pretty sure you could never do something like Electricity/Plumbing/Woodworking. Than sorry to be you, as it is something every guy should learn.

My dad taught us from a easily age how to improve a house, as he pretty much gutted half the house to make it better. And knowing how to build a kitchen, or putting in a door is a must for a guy.

I make the same as my friend who went to college, but I have no debt.

Don't think school will solve your problems. It is only useful for a handful of career paths.

>And take the fucking time to go to to grocery store and actually prepare yourself wholesome and decently healthy meals.

I cannot agree with this enough. Been living by myself for a little over a month now (also newish like OP) and holy shit it cuts down on the cost of food so much.

You obviously will have to take some time to cook, but if you learn correct meal prep strategies it will save you lodsamunee in the long run.

Don't know what to get? Start with basics:
1. Chicken
2. Eggs
3. Ground beef
4. Beans
5. Rice
6. Carrots
7. Broccoli
8. Onions
9. Garlic (powdered will do fine, but buy some real cloves to treat yourself or if you got a girl over and want to cook for her)
10. Basic spices

Learn to cook. There are fucktons of vids on Youtube on basic cooking techniques. Watch the masters like Jacques Pepin or Gordon Ramsay do it and pay attention to how they chop/fry/boil things.

Try to beat my personal best of creating 4 wholesome (i.e. meats/carbs/veggies included with good nutrition content) meals for $12. I challenge you.

I know people who have begs on the streets in front of walmart.

They make like $300+ a day. My Cuz did that a few times, and once made $600 in one day. Which is probably why people do it, as they get paid. But IMO not worth it.

I don't even give those people money, as I know why most of them are really doing it. Especially the ones you see all the time doing it. They pretty much turned it into a job, and make more than the avg joe working at Mcdonalds.

That looks so fucking exactly like my last apartment. Is the Land Lord named larry? Is there a road that goes up hill right in front of your door?

I wish I knew how to fix homes and cars. This would definitely help.
I was prepping to be a finance major. Most employers want some kind of undergraduate degree for those type of jobs.

I don't want to apply for welfare and be a fucking leech on the taxpayers money. There's no point, the only joy I get is when 5 minutes after I wake up, before I remember who I am and what my life is.
Thanks anyway anons.

You must still live with mammy and daddy to be so sour about this guy making it on his own as you're making a fuckton of assumptions about his situation. First, we don't have any idea how much he's paying for rent. Could easily be 4-500, which working 40 hours at 10/hr would be roughly 30% of his income. You're also assuming everyone just wants to buy useless shit. Honestly, some people's only goal may be to literally live alone and be happy. Stop hating on this kid because he sacked the fuck up and got out from under mommy's wings unlike yourself who very likely doesn't even have a job to be this hateful you faggot.

more pics of house?

did you bought it or are you just renting it?

I like your comforter, user. I have the exact same one.

Good job. Enjoy this stage and save your money. Everyone tends to want to make something they don't own look like a billion dollar casino. Save that for homeownership. Run through pussy, it's easy when you have a private place to bring them that isn't parked out in the woods.

I'll add to this that you should invest in a crockpot once you have some money as it can save a ton of time. You can get a cheap but perfectly adequate one for like $40, just throw a bunch of ingredients and spices in and let it cook, and then you have 2-3 meals worth. Cooking seems a lot harder than it actually is, and you don't have to make Food Network masterpieces, you can make literally dozens of tasty healthy meals using only 3-4 ingredients (and appropriate spices) that only have a 10 minute or less preparation time.

Try and put some money away, for those times in your life when life lets you down e.g. taxi fair for when you miss the bus to work and extra rent money and extra bill money for when your off sick for 2 weeks and have no way of paying the bills or the landlord.

Most of this.

abandon Cred Forums and then, finally, you can consider yourself a grown up

I don't believe you. Why would have I got no friends mean all you money belongs to you? Of course your money is yours, friends don't cost money you fucking loser...

I think he means he won't be going out with any friends and so there's no need to factor that into monthly expenses.

>21 years
>a real adult

YMMV. Expect to never get the deposit back. Be happy if you get some or all of it back. It's a crap shoot with landlords.

This.

Cooking an impressive meal for two is easy and impresses the panties right off the ladies. Don't waste money you don't have on a resturaunt.

Also after the meal is over, your bedroom is just a few steps away.

Keep a few unopened toothbrushes in the bathroom. After the meal tell her you're going to brush your teeth and you don't want to be rude so she can have a toothbrush if she wants to do the same.

Making out will ensue. (I've done this many, many times.)

If she doesn't fuck you the first night, try one more dinner date. If she doesn't fuck you the second, move on to a new one.

Not if you stay at a decent establishment. And considering you warned about bed bugs, I'm guessing you don't.

you've got more than I do

Different user. If you take care of your place, you'll probably get it back. No guarantee though. Besides, it's not like you can really recoup that money anyway. You'll just use it as a security deposit for the next place, until you buy a house. When you're at that point, the deposit is a drop in the bucket.

Make sure to take extensive photos of the place now. (Looks like you just moved in so its not too late.). If the carpet isn't new ask for the installation date. Get all correspondence in WRITING. Ask for an email address so you have records.

Before you move out, insist on a "walk-through" which means before you leave the manager must point out anything that needs to be repaired. You can then repair it and/or argue it before leaving and get your money back.

I've had to fight a little bit i(and by fight I mean simply send out a few strongly worded emails) and I got 100% back always.