I know when I first moved out, my boyfriend and I were very gun-ho to get new everything. Then our parents talked sense in to us and told us to wait till he actually bought a house (if we were still together) to do that. So when we got our first apartment, they helped us out with giving us their old house supplies and I know we got a lot of free used stuff from craigslist, local paper, etc. Glad we did that now because things got stolen from the complex people doing checks, etc and things got stolen and broken from having parties and having people over.
We bounced around from apartments every 6 months when our lease was up since apartment living sucks around here. I ended up dumping him last year and figuring out who got what was a pain in the you know what!
We are /sorta/ back together now after being apart a year and so far so good. Doubt getting an apartment again will happen since that was the root of our money problems. We threw away soooo much money on a stinking apartment that we couldn't even call "ours" and that gave us some big problems. If we ever get serious again, it will be for real and no more playing around thinking we know what we are doing to just get away to live together and away from our parents. If everything goes as we hope it does... we will be looking into getting an actually house together.... but that will be years down the road.
Good luck!
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