The First Apartment Checklist: Things to Buy Now, Things to Buy Later

So you've just graduated from college and you have your own apartment, for the first time, or at least the first time on an adult budget, and it's super exciting and you can't wait to spend your first paycheck on all the things you've admired from design blogs for all these years but never been able to buy. Except that your first paycheck, which seemed so juicy and fat when you first got it, was barely enough to cover the rent, and now you're starting to realize that maybe you won't be buying a ...