I Bought An Old Couch At A Garage Sale — Three Days Later, Someone Tried To Break Into My Apartment Over It

the apartment two weeks earlier.

After paying the security deposit and first month’s rent, I barely had enough money left to survive.

My living room consisted of:

Two folding chairs.

A crooked coffee table.

And a mattress shoved against the wall because I still couldn’t afford a proper bed frame.

Every night the apartment felt painfully silent.

The kind of continue reading …