You’ve finished school. You’ve done the long hours for low pay. You’ve put in your time and now things are starting to look like what you sort of imagined they would when you finally became a proper adult. This next part may be tough to hear: You are now probably too old for Ikea.I understand why it’s hard to process. Ikea was the place you went when you could finally afford to step it up from milk crate furnishing. You could shop for the living room and procure a two dollar dinner all in one spot. It was cheap, and there was so much of it on Craigslist. And, of course, in the end, you finally felt like you had...

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