• Psythik@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    It’s not that we were content, it’s simply what we could afford.

    That’s the reality of late stage capitalism, it can take years until you can save enough money for the basics. I couldn’t afford a couch until I was 30! Until then I had to put up with lawn chairs and bean bags. My credit card limit was only $500 when I was young, and we didn’t have Affirm yet because it was the early 2010s; if I didn’t have the cash, I couldn’t buy it! So needless to say, decorations aren’t exactly the priority when you can’t even afford furniture!

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      5 hours ago

      It’s not that we were content, it’s simply what we could afford.

      Nah, that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m not separate from these bachelors that I was seeing, I’m not independently wealthy because I kept more than 1 towel in my apartment, and I’m the same age as them.

      These were deliberate choices to keep things very minimal without any thoughts to having guests over.