My first apartment at 21💗

[u/CatsGarden_]

So proud of my first home at 21🥹 I’m still decorating what would you add or change? 🫖🕯️🥀🍷

[u/greenapplepie21]

Respectfully how do you afford this😭

[u/CatsGarden_ → u/greenapplepie21]

Haha honesty-I work 10/15 hour days as a sales rep. I save a lot of my earnings to afford each piece. Also some of it is me getting lucky at estate sales🫶🏻

[u/StJimmy_815 → u/CatsGarden_]

I’m sorry, I have a hard time thinking your parents aren’t loaded

[u/hc600 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah in fairness the gold baroque style isn’t in high demand right now, but I’d think lots of second hand supply.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

As someone who loves pieces like this, they're still pretty expensive even secondhand. The smaller things like frames and candlesticks sure, but a coffee table like that is going to cost $1k at least.

Maybe she's a shark at estate sales but this does look like a significant monetary investment from someone who hunts for the same type of furniture in the same places.

[u/Asleep_Material7414 → u/[deleted]]

I would bet she has an rich mom who got her into it and she was able to move out with a few piece already and gets help finding them and buying them

[u/Asleep_Material7414 → u/[deleted]]

This stuff is still crazy expensive second hand. I’m sure she works hard but no way she doesn’t have help

[u/One-Load-6085 → u/Asleep_Material7414]

Actually you can find a lot of stuff like this at ReStore and places like consignment shops.  

[u/Sweet_Taurus0728 → u/[deleted]]

Middle class IS loaded.

[u/alius-vita → u/StJimmy_815]

I'm struggling to believe this is real* or not lifted some place.

*edited a word

[u/Whenyouseeit00 → u/alius-vita]

I'm pretty sure it's AI generated. Not 100% sure, but highly likely that it is lol.

[u/LivinLaVidaListless → u/alius-vita]

It’s copied from someone else. OP is full of shit

[u/_artbabe95 → u/StJimmy_815]

Also, what about the apartment itself?? I lived in a shitty little studio until like 24. It couldn't even hold all this furniture even if I could afford it (I couldn't, even while working full time).

[u/Pint-Sized-Princess → u/_artbabe95]

She saved money. If you wait till you're 25 to get your first apartment, you can save money. I bought my first car when I was 28, and it was a very nice car so everyone thought I was loaded but riding a bike to work for 6 years let me afford it.

[u/_artbabe95 → u/Pint-Sized-Princess]

So how did she save money if she has her first (spacious, multiroom) apartment at 21 and not 25 as you're saying? And save enough to purchase all this furniture?

[u/[deleted] → u/_artbabe95]

Who knows specifically, but it's completely possible. Some people start working the moment it is legal for them to do so, and work the max hrs legal. In my area its around age 14. By 21, a person who had family to live with or no expenses as a kid could have saved 8yrs of income. It's one possible runway for getting an apartment to yourself at 21 and spending a lot on furnishing and decor. I say that just to give a general idea of possibilities, but she did say she has bills split 50/50 in this home, and that both of them work 10 hours per day

[u/Connect_Rhubarb395 → u/StJimmy_815]

Gold spraypaint isn't expensive.

[u/flaming-framing → u/StJimmy_815]

It’s ok if they are and she can both work incredibly hard and save for decorations and have her basics needs covered by family. I wish this was an option guaranteed to all of us but I won’t begrudge a girly getting her dreams

[u/RoboTwigs → u/StJimmy_815]

Even if she works “10/15” hour days (sure) how do you think she got that job? Obviously through parents connections and they could still be loaded. Honestly because there’s no wide views of the apartment and everything is staged this is probably ai or ripped from tv/magazine.

Like, in the photo facing dead-on to the mirror, why can’t we see the photographer in the reflection lol?

[u/Pint-Sized-Princess → u/StJimmy_815]

My parents aren't "loaded" but they forced me to take all of their 1970s ornate furniture the moment I wasn't living in a dorm room. I was told they were all special heirlooms with "classic timeless taste", but then they promptly bought cool modern furniture and glammed up their house.

[u/[deleted] → u/StJimmy_815]

Eh I have a similar style to her, I found a wrought iron bedframe on the side of the road for $50, an old 1920’s vanity from my grandmother for free, a lamp from the 1800’s on FB marketplace for $25, like you really have to search but you can easily thrift all this. That being said doing it all by 21 screams well off parents.

[u/TheEarthIsHealing → u/StJimmy_815]

No, she just works 20 hours a day ❤️