re: Things you had in your first apartment

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61" Mitsubishi tv

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Was it a giant projection TV or a flat screen?

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Mattress on the floor

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Nevermind. I figured it out.

Two velvet lamps
A newspaper machine
Working traffic light

Good times.

Lava lamp.

I had a poster of a hippy alien saying “I come in Peace”. My gf at the time HATED it!

I had a 30” sylvania box tv in the living room and a 15” vcr tv combo in my bedroom.

I had an unkillable lenovo thinkpad brick of a laptop that still sorta works over a decade later despite being out of date at the time.

I had this dumb purple fuzzy folding bubble chair thing my parents gave me that mostly held unfolded laundry.

Two chicks at the same time

Not my proudest moment, but had just moved into a place next door to where the Special Olympics were being held. Me and roommate are walking home from the bar drunk one night talking about how sparce our new crib is and how we need to get some more stuff. I then notice the Special Olympic stuff sitting out in the field (they left it out overnight). I look at my buddy and say "you thinking what I'm thinking".

Next day my girlfriend comes over and notices a table, chairs and giant cooler that says "Special Olympics". She looks at me and says "You're going to hell".

Countless empty liquor/beer bottles with Christmas lights around them for decor. I have no idea how that didn't smell. We had a kegerator, gaming systems, homemade wall decor made from bottle caps. The typical college male apartment

Me and my roommate's favorite part of the apartment was the loft. It's hard to explain but the kitchen had REALLY tall ceilings, those ceilings went to a normal height in the living room (it was all one big room.) Well in the corner of the "tall ceiling" portion of the main room we had a spiral staircase that went up to a loft overlooking the kitchen/living room. We put a 15 person tent that covered the whole loft so as soon as you went up the stairs you were in the tent. That was our smoking tent. We had tons of shite up there.. stereo/speakers, mattresses, comfy chairs, disco lights, christmas lights on the outside, the whole floor had like 4 layers of blankets so it was soft... Those were some good times.

We also hung a basketball hoop over the side of the loft so we could play HORSE inside. Our neighbors hated us but man that apartment was fun.

Roadside furniture that somehow wasn't crawling with bed bugs

Broke-arse hand me down bedframe that had to sit on wood blocks - weighed a million pounds and I'm sure it was nice in the 1960s when first bought.

A cat, when we skipped the pet deposit.

Landlord was a complete psycho but allowed us to paint and lay down some laminate flooring so we could learn some hard lessons on someone else's property - bathroom turned out damn near flourescent orange and the laminate I put down convinced me to never attempt something like that again.

About a 6ft tall version of this. But ours was mostly MGD. We were young and broke.