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What's one thing I can get/do to make my first "adult" apartment a bit nicer? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Move in is the next few weeks. I've lived on my "own" (roommate I never interacted with) for a couple months my last semester of college, but that was a temporary setup whereas I'm hopefully moving out for good this time.

Bear in mind that the place has window/wall A/C and electric heating.

Things I'm already considering:

Drain guard
Bidet
Cold brew coffee maker
Rice cooker
Space heater? I'd like to keep the temp largely down during the winter to save money while warming up the part of the place I'm in
Key for washer/dryer

Things I already have:

Most furniture
Air fryer
Seltzer water thingy
Meal prep containers

General advice is also welcome!

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Space heater? I'd like to keep the temp largely down during the winter to save money while warming up the part of the place I'm in

I fell for this meme but it neglects to account for the fact that furniture & flooring has thermal mass and gets cold as shit when it isn't being heated. It also takes a very very long time to heat up (again because of the thermal mass). Just turning on the heater so the apartment & all its furniture was always a comfortable temp without me wearing a toque & fingerless gloves & slippers & always being covered in blankets & drinking hot water was probably the greatest possible improvement to my happiness & comfort for the money spent.

Rice cooker

Hell yeah, get a nice one like a Zojirushi if possible

Cold brew coffee maker

Loose-leaf tea equipment is very cheap if you're into that and are looking for a more moderate caffeine hit

seltzer water thingy

Airstream is an israeli company btw

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Hmm that's a good note on the space heater.

The coffee maker I'm looking at is only like $30 and I'll make that back in the money I save not buying premade concentrate pretty quick

I actually have a Drinkmate which isn't connected to Israel afaik! I think the canisters are still Sodastream but I'm working on finding a local homebrew shop that will refill them for cheap compared to swapping them out at target or something

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Drinkmate is not israeli.

And you can get their canisters (you can even trade Sodasteam canisters for their ones).

I love my drinkmate, seltzer good.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Grab a 5lb CO2 tank from the home brew shop, and a little adapter for sodastream canisters. Easy to fill up at home and you only need to refill the big tank every 5 or 6 refills of the small one. Super cheap as well (and te money goes to your hbs).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Sodastream is the Israeli company, Airstream is... I think a type of vehicle?