#13: Furnish An Apt On A Broke Budget.
I didn’t make a lot of money when I lived in Richmond, VA. But resourceful and ambitious, I used whatever flea market, thrift store and consignment knick-knacks I could find. And what did $437 get me? A barely-used IKEA bed, with frame and mattress in mint condition. Black, wall IKEA shelves. A sponge-painted IKEA night-stand. A taste for the finer things in life, like IKEA, apparently. A floor-length, life-size Paris backdrop from a yard sale for $10 bucks. Best of all, amateur interior…