When it comes to pimping out your apartment on a broke-ass budget, have no fear.  You just gotta get creative as fuck. The trick is to balance your obscure oddities with all the other crap you pick up at a thrift shop for a dollar. There are loads of stores

You can only pretend to enjoy boutique shopping on Atlantic Avenue (or Franklin Street or Bedford Avenue or god forbid somewhere that’s actually in Manhattan) for so long. When you’re with friends who drop $200 on a pair of “vintage” shoes (don’t they know how fast soles – not to