Congratulations on getting your first apartment - that's a big step, and exciting and a bit scary at the same time. Since it's a bachelor, think small - multi functional in terms of furniture. If you're on a tight budget, good will, value village can be good sources for stuff like dishes and stuff. Some of the larger Good wills even have furniture.

Do you have carpets? Try to get a vacuum that works on both carpets and floors - I much prefer vacuuming my kitchen to sweeping it.

Most importantly have fun decorating it. You can get all kinds of fun relatively inexpensive housewares type things at IKEA.

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