WE HAVE AN APARTMENT! AHAHA!

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http://www.communitysite.com/Kimbrook/

It’s a one bedroom apartment and it’s really, really nice! The best part is that it’s only $550 per month and about $50 a month for electricity. All other utilities are included. Between me and my girlfriend, it’s going to be a cynch. Woohoo! does the dance with no pants!

So… uh… is there something we should know about living in an apartment, you apartment livers, you? Also, what are some really cheap and easy meals that someone who knows little about cooking can do (my girlfriend can cook, but I plan on learning so that she doesn’t have to be burdened with it all the time). I’m preferably looking for easy and relatively healthy meals, avoiding beef at all costs.

EDIT: Oh, some good cookbooks would help.

I can’t wait! I get to live with my girlfriend, and I don’t have to fucking be at home… but there is ONE catch.

I’m not going to have internet for at least a month after I move in, and possibly longer (after January 7th) so I’m not going to be around much after that (except maybe at school).

I’m sure you’re all so sad. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Wait, so who are you?

Damn fool, you lucky asshole. I want to live with my girlfriend. >:(

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I have lived in apartments for my whole life. The one where I live now, my family moved to it when I was 3.

One thing I can think of now is that the loudest noise you can do without bugging your neighbors in an apartment is lower than if you were in a house.

edit: oh yeah… Keeping animals, specially dogs, in an apartment may be a pain sometimes. You won’t have a garden to give them breathing room and once again, neighbors might not like some of the noisiest ones.

Neighbors may be a pain in apartments because you’ll be sharing more space with them than if you lived in a house. For example: I hope these doesn’t happen to you, but mostly there are assholes who will keep the elevator’s door open while they wait for someone who’ll take five minutes to get there, (rare but happens) people with more cars than they should have, or guests, might want to park their cars in your parking space - specially when you’re out with your car etc.

One more thing: if your neighbors have regular meetings to decide things for the building, attend to them. Otherwise you’ll have no voice in matters that ay affect you directly.

And $50 for electricity? Dude, I’m considered someone who uses too much electric power at home (I think I outdo anyone within a few blocks) and my account doesn’t reach a third of that.

Also, I’m placing my bets that you’ll be eating lots of spaghetti of the read-in-5-minutes kind. As for easy recipes, Eva’s done a thread on that: http://agora.rpgclassics.com/showthread.php?t=24462

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So when are you holding the meet there.

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Never.

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How thick/thin are your walls? Considering noise you could make and that your neighbors could make, might ask the landperson if the walls could be made more soundproofed somehow. Or as a temporary solution place some velcro strips at the top of your wall and get some kind of padding to stick to the velcro. Might also want to be sure how good your locks are. Not sure if your heating will be good or it could stop working at one point, good to have thickish comforters just in case.

As for meals, there should be tons of easy and simple cookbooks out. Spaghetti of course, tuna casserole, then you could get a slow cooker to make chilli and stews if you like. Probably are some slow cooker cookbooks as well. Could also get a rice cooker for rice and get a steamer to fit into the rice cooker to steam vegetables.

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It wasn’t a question, mister rountree.

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Get a crockpot. Very handy thing to have.

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Congratulations on finding an apartment :smiley:

Advice? Be kind to and considerate of your neighbors - they can be awesome people, but they also have the ability to make your life a living hell. Trust me, I know after my apartment experience, lol. This doesn’t just mean noise and being nice when you see them. I don’t expect this to be a problem for you, but don’t be messy to the point that you create a pest problem! :wink: Some friends of mine found that out the hard way with ants.

I haven’t cooked a small meal in months (thanks Mom :D), so I don’t have a small recipe off the top of my head. I know we’ve had a few cooking threads that should pop up in a topic search. I can tell you about a bimonthly magazine I’ve read that specializes in smaller-portioned recipes; it’s called Cooking for Two, and it’s from Reiman Publications. Sometimes it’s a little cheesy and on the traditional side, but there are great recipes! Here’s a link. Check out the bottom for other magazines that also have good recipes.

I hope everything goes well and that you have some kickass furniture. And appliances… ooh, appliances.

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Use styrofoam plates. Cleaning is annoying, styrofoam plates are disposable.

styrofoam plates ftw

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And of your girlfriend. It’s not easy to live with another person.

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Exactly, SK. I think that’s why I’ve preferred living alone. :smiley:

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living with other people gets stressful. :-/

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But styrofoam is bad for the environment.

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Plates are easy enought to clean. Don’t listen to Nightblade. If you’re honestly too busy to clean plates, you don’t deserve to eat.

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Ok, lemme tell you how it is.

Your neighbors are gonna piss you off. I damn near got into a fight with one of mine. See, I don’t wake up that easy, so I have to set multiple alarms and all at very loud volumes. He came over and decided to be a dick and pointed his finger in my face so I grabbed my BB gun and told him to keep talking. Neighbors in apartments suck, so be prepared to be a dick to them. Sure, they’re your neighbors, but odds are, they’ve been there longer than you have and put up with the shit all the time, so their fuses are shorter.

Next, when you sign your lease you’ll probably get a copy of a big long list of rules that you’re supposed to abide by. Do your best to abide by these rules, because odds are you can be evicted if you dont.

When you get junk mail, for gods sake don’t just leave it at the mailbox. I do this and it pissess people off. Then again, I hate my fucking neighbors, so they can suck my cock, but in the beginning you may wanna try to get on their good side.

If you plan on having an animal that has to be walked, pick up their shit. It’s only nice. Sure, I hate my neighbors, but then again, I like a few of them and don’t want them to step in shit.

Good meals depend on your eating habits. An excellent cookbook is “The Joy of Cooking”, it’s pretty much the quintessential cook book. Cheap meals include the following:

Store brand hamburger helpers
Raman concoctions
On-Sale frozen dinners (I stress the on-sale)
Macaroni and Cheese (store bought if really neccessary, otherwise you can get kraft for like .99 a box or less)
Various Pastas and store brand sauces. You can pretty much get any store-brand pastas for anywhere between .50-.99 per package. Then you can mix it up with various meats (which is the expensive part) and store brand sauces. Trust me, when it comes to eating, cheaper is better. This is coming from the kid who ate peanut butter for a week or so.
Bread, sandwich meats, cheeses, peanut butter, jelly and honey. A package of 30 slices of smoked turkey and some swiss cheese is a sandwich a day for thirty days, or if you’re like me, 15 days (2 slices).
Get a newspaper subscription, because it’ll be key on sundays for the ads when you need to go grocery shopping. There’s always sales on stuff, so be a coupon clipper and save your ass some fucking money. You’ll thank me later.
Hit up Goodwill for furniture. Sure, it may suck, but it’s better than the floor. I saw a $30 love seat today.
Popcorn.

By the way, that $50 on electricity is no set in stone. Keep in mind, it’s approaching winter, and you live in the North. Just a heads up.

Hrm… thats all I got.

Btw: about the plates thing, you have to keep buying paper plates or whatever. Just buy a basic flatware set with some plates and cups or whatever. Or hell, be like me and steal shit from your parents house, so what?

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If by never, you mean as soon as fucking possible, than i agree with this statement.

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About the electricity. It’s going to be a fifty dollar flat rate. It would normally be ten dollars to one hundred dollars depending on how much electricity we used (such as heat and such), but we decided to go with a flat rate so we wouldn’t have to deal with wild fluctuations.

Oh, yeah, the furnature situation. We lucked out. My girlfriend’s grandmother just got a whole bunch of new furnature from her really rich friend who had sympathy for her husband’s death. Since her grandmother is nice and likes me, we’re getting her old furnature for free. In fact, we’re getting a lot of appliances between my parents, her parents, and other people. The only thing that I can think of that we haven’t got is a fucking toaster. :stuck_out_tongue:

And no. I’m not holding a meet at my apartment. First of all, that wouldn’t be very considerate of my girlfriend or my neighbors. Second of all, it’s too small for an RPGC meet. Third of all, I really don’t want to have to clean up after you considering how other places got trashed during California meets.

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-Food is more expensive than you’d think
-Internet can be set up VERY quickly, I had mine within 3 days.

-Get some plates, a set of pots, a frying pan, glasses, utensils, a knife set, a spatula, wooden spoons, big plastic spoons, measuring cups, some filters, saran wrap, aluminum foil. There’s probably more but I don’t know exactly what you specifically would like/need. But this is a good place to start. I suggest you shop around a little because of how expensive a lot of these things are; walmart and ikea should offer some decent prices.

I’m lucky, I don’t live in a duplex like building, but a big condo building so I have 0 noise and rarely ever see my neighbours, if ever.

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The reason we’re going to wait on the internet is because we want to see how we deal with our current bills. If we are going to have a problem, then we won’t get the internet. If we don’t, then we will. Same with cable, although I wish that we weren’t considering cable at all (my girlfriend loves Comedy Central and Cartoon Network, as do I, but I can live without it).