First things for your place

[Delilah Scythewood]

For those of us who have moved out whether it be for college, new house, new apartment, moved in with a beau, etc. what was the first thing you got for your new place?

 

And by this I mean what was the first thing you got of your own volition and put in your place that added your own touch?

 

For example: I just got cast iron skillets and sauce pans and omg cooking stuff I don't have to eat frozen foods anymore afdjjwjjlnn;p

 

So let's hear it!

[Crisiet]

Bed throws and blankets. I... I really like them okay.

[Ciel]

A stupidly soft microfiber loveseat. I still have the thing, and it swallows people whole.

[FreelanceWizard]

It's been a while since I first moved out, but I believe my first purchase was some cheap cookware.

 

When I first moved into my current house, the first purchase was a rug for the entry room. It really brings the whole room together.

[Random Encounter]

Man, that is a long time ago...like 14 years or so. If I remember right, it was a couch, cause the one that had been left in that bachelors was a horrible puke green.

[Erik Mynhier]

A backpack of clothes and my lifesavings. Running away at 16 was awesome.

[Val]

First thing I bought myself.. A tv.

 

When my girlfriend and I moved in together? Pots and pans lol.

[Roswyn]

A cheap, shitty table when I realized I had no where to put my computer.

[Gaspard]

ho boy. Well, I moved in with a majority of things already in hand (kitchen equipment, living room/ bed room materials as well) so the first thing I got was probably the mirror in my floor and..that old wooden makeshift table.

 

after that a new frying pan cause my last one died the tragic death of teflon seperating from pan

[DreamedReality]

Chainmaille supplies.

[DreamedReality]

 

after that a new frying pan cause my last one died the tragic death of teflon seperating from pan

 

That is why we recently invested in the ceramic lined pans. So far they're great. But we've only had them about a year.

[Maril]

I dragged my mom to Ikea, bought like, half of the store and convinced her to help me assemble it. No one died!  Among the stuff I picked was my bed, my desk and my shelf-systems. Protip for the future: If your surfaces at home are predominantly black or dark brown, do not buy a black phone. I can never find it ._.

[Kage]

Recently did this. The only furnishings provided were GAS stove (OMGYES), washing machine, dryer, fridge, dishwasher.

 

We had many an IKEA trip the first weeks of moving in. Bed, blankets, mattress, pillows, sofa bed, desks, dining table and chairs...

 

And yet we also recently bought a griddler... and that has seen a lot of use lol

[Mae]

... Bath towels and a shower curtain.

 

My folks had pretty much furnished that first apartment with hand-me-downs and spares, but if I remember correctly, they didn't have spares of those that they were willing to part with. And  my boyfriend (now husband) and I weren't even able to afford those for the first week because the need (not desire or want) to move had been pressed on us with the worst possible time for both of us.

 

I AM certain that the first few meals we had in there was cake. Food was also something we couldn't afford that first week, but a regular customer to where my husband worked at the time was so excited for us when she heard we'd gotten a place together that she went out and bought us a cake and ice cream to celebrate.

[Coatleque]

A backpack of clothes and my lifesavings. Running away at 16 was awesome.

 

I envy you. I would have done this, but I had no life savings

 

What did we get? Hmm... Like most others, cooking utensils, dishes, silver (see: stainless steel) ware, and bedding.

[QueenFrejyalen]

When I first moved out with my boyfriend (now fiance), my parents bought us a lot of cheap stuff to help us get by.  I have always been lucky to have pretty thoughtful parents (usually, ahaha).

 

But the first thing we bought was.......y'know I'm really not sure.  After what they gave us, other than food, we didn't buy much because we were both working shit minimum wage jobs.  The first thing we bought was probably a couch, now that I think on it.  A couch that no longer exists haha.

 

We even went our first two (or three?) years without internet, much to my disdain at first but gradually I got used to it.

[C'kayah Polaali]

I first moved away into a college dorm, so many of the essentials either were provided or simply came with it. IIRC the first things I bought for it were fucking textbooks.

 

If I was starting completely over today, though, the first things I'd buy would be a nice chef's knife, a few good pots and pans, and some silicon spatulas. I'll eat out of the pan with a spatula, but I'm going to have my kitchen gear to cook with!

[TheLastCandle]

It's been a while since I first moved out, but I believe my first purchase was some cheap cookware.

 

When I first moved into my current house, the first purchase was a rug for the entry room. It really brings the whole room together.

 

 

Mine was my couch.

 

Which I still love. Photo from when I first got it:

 

[Unnamed Mercenary]

When I moved out, I had a bed, some basic pots and pans, silverware, etc, that my family was getting rid of. None of them were particularly good though.

 

 

First thing I bought when I moved in to my current apartment (the one I count as moving out from my parents' home) was a big stockpot, and nice frying pan. Cooked a meal on the shitty electric stove the very first day.

 

Subsequent purchases have led others  to believe I have spending problems. Those include: enough cups to not be able to fit them all if they're all clean, enough plates for the same, about 15 sets of silverware, a knife set that's....lackluster, unlimited tupperware, mixing bowls, and at least 20 pairs of chopsticks. That was followed by a tv, ps3, and sound system as "secondary". ...I hate cleaning it, but I love my kitchen. >_>

[Jancis]

A backpack of clothes and my lifesavings. Running away at 16 was awesome.

 

I envy you.  I would have done this, but I had no life savings

 

What did we get?  Hmm... Like most others, cooking utensils, dishes, silver (see: stainless steel) ware, and bedding.

 

Running away sounds awfully familiar to me.

 

One big thing was a bed, because it costs a lot and that was a big 'first' purchase.

 

Ended up getting an airbed from Bed Bath and Beyond that was queen-sized and sat at regular height. It got a small leak on one side so it had countless layers of glue on the seam to keep it from deflating.

 

Slept on that for many years as life built up. Gods I think it's still in the closet... need to throw that away.

[Flickering Ember]

A matching shower curtain for the bathroom.

[Erik Mynhier]

A backpack of clothes and my lifesavings. Running away at 16 was awesome.

 

I envy you. I would have done this, but I had no life savings

 

What did we get? Hmm... Like most others, cooking utensils, dishes, silver (see: stainless steel) ware, and bedding.

 

It was only like $400. I was basically a sexy dutch hobo, hitchhiking down the east coast of Florida. I was lucky I didn't die, but it was an adventure though. Ended at eighteen when I walked into a recruitment office though. I'm just glad I had the where-with-all to accelerate and graduate high school early before I said "F*** IT!" and left.

[Antain]

I...have no such experience yet. I moved from my parent's at eighteen to live with my grandmother. When she passed, I stayed in her house for another year before moving back in with the parents. Everything being bought for my "new" place my parents and I are building is taken from my inheritance for taking care of my grandmother for ten years.

 

Though...I suppose my first big purchase when moving into my grandmother's was my laptop so I could play vidja gaimz

[Berrod Armstrong]

A rack of dumbells,  a rack of barbells, a bench, and a full length mirror. I had to choose between a bar with weights and eating for the next month so I ended up doing the latter (I got them the following month).

 

It's funny, I didn't even get couches or curtains at first. Fortunately where I lived was remote enough for it not to matter.

[Melkire]

I first moved away into a college dorm, so many of the essentials either were provided or simply came with it. IIRC the first things I bought for it were fucking textbooks.

 

More or less this, in my case.

 

The first thing I bought for my first apartment...? Furniture. I grabbed my roommate and dragged him along to IKEA with me. We needed a dining room table and at least four chairs.

 

The first thing I bought for myself for the apartment? A gods-damned bookcase. The likes of Jordan, King, Cook, Butcher, and Stover needed somewhere for me to rest their works on!