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a home + living guide for the post-college, pre-parenthood, quasi-adult generation 07.30.2007 home editor's note  _____________ DEPARTMENTS  o lounge  o nourish   o host o laze _____________ o BOARDS o SHOP _____________ about contact submit your ideas search

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big decorating dreams. tiny little budget. don't be a wallflower! jump on over to the discussion boards and get decorating help.

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other recent LOUNGE articles: o Open house: Toronto o Spruce up for spring o Score! where to get good cheap home stuff o Fabric tissue box cover o Easy entryway organizing o 70s lounge chairs: vinyl repair o Big ideas for small spaces o A tree of my own o 70s lounge chairs: chrome cures o Gimme some style! o Into the closet: organization o Now we're cooking: make more space in a small kitchen

With graduation gowns and teary goodbyes to school pals still fresh in memory, it’s time to think about where you’re heading next: out of the dorms or the parental nest, and into the real world! One of the first steps in your spankin’-new quasi-adult life? Figuring out where to live, and whether you’ll do it all by your lonesome, with roommates, with your sweetums, or (gulp) even suck it up and move back home to save up some dough.

negotiating the living sitch…
Where to from here the recent grad's guide to post-college housing
Gone (apartment) hunting scoring the perfect pad
The great roommate search finding roommates
Roommates from hell problem roommates and how to deal with them
Shacking up moving in with a significant other
A room of my own tips for solo living

tales from the trenches…
After school life after graduation
Dorm life take two becoming a dorm parent
Make it a single the joys of solo living
Life in the frathouse tales of a girl living with boys
The other bubble more tales of a girl living with boys
Under mom's roof moving back to the parental nest
Home sweet homes making a real home for yourself

let’s get moving…
Moving right along a moving checklist
In the box how to pack for a move
First things for first tips for moving into your first apartment
Settle down now how to move to a new city and like it too

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