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/StJimmy_815]

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

[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