The Piece Of Furniture You Really Don't Need In Your College Apartment

By Danielle Wirsansky on August 19, 2019

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You are moving into their first college apartment. This is a big step! Of course, moving into the dorms for the first year or two was also a big step because it was the first time that you were living away from home at all. But now you are moving into an apartment. This is a logical progression but can be scary because living in an apartment is so much more responsibility than living in a dorm.

There’s no campus security making the rounds, no Resident Assistant down the hall, no bills being covered in an overall room and board charge. But another element that can make moving into a college apartment a bit daunting is the fact that you will likely have to furnish it yourself.

Outfitting an apartment to make it livable can be an arduous and expensive task. While some students can find furnished apartments, they are often so much more expensive that paying for a furnished apartment usually adds up to a higher cost than simply purchasing or renting furniture for yourself.

Finding all the furniture you need for your college apartment can be overwhelming. You might always feel like you are forgetting something, or that you will forget something, or that you have forgotten some necessary piece of furniture that you might need!

There are countless articles and checklists online or otherwise giving you the ultimate breakdown of what a college student might need in their apartment. But have you ever thought to switch that mindset around? Instead of focusing on the large, stress-inducing list of must-have items, have you ever stopped to think about the one piece of furniture that you really do not need?

There is one piece of furniture, in all of its many incarnations, that college students really do not need in their college apartment: the table.

The table, you may be asking? How can you not need a table? Everyone has a table! But if you think about it, tables are really unnecessary and not often used in college student apartments. Most kinds of tables, from kitchen to coffee, are pretty extraneous in the end in a college student’s lifestyles. Read on to learn why each kind of table does not really have a place in your college apartment!

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Kitchen Table

So why does a college student not need a kitchen table? Well, to be honest, they probably are not going to use it much. Most college students do not. There is not a lot of time to lounge around at a table and eat. Students have so much to juggle: school, homework, work, extracurricular activities, and more. They are always on the go! Many of them eat on campus, or skip breakfast, or eat on the go, or eat in their room.

Honestly, most students eat sitting on their couches (which is definitely a furniture staple that you should have). It is comfier. It seats people more casually. Having just the couch takes up less space than a couch and a table. And it is not like they are having family dinners, where several people need to fit to sit at once. Sitting on the couch is fine for a student. It probably also allows them to watch a little bit of TV—so they can kill two birds with one stone.

Night/End/Coffee Tables

The essentials in a college student’s room are simple: think of what dorm furniture consists of. A bed, a desk and chair, and a dresser. That is all you need, too. Sure, having night tables might be nice, but it is going above and beyond to get one. If you did not feel deprived living in your dorm without one, you should be fine in your apartment without one too.

As for end and coffee tables, if you have already got a couch (and maybe even a dinner tray if you are lucky), you’re good. Space is pressed enough as it is in a small apartment, which is probably shared by a number of college students. Tables (and other flat surfaces) are also locations that students notoriously leave their stuff on. By eliminating these surfaces, you may end up staying more organized (and hopefully your mess will be contained more to your own room than common spaces). If you do not need it, there is no space for it, and no money in the budget for it, cut it out!

Of course, tables are not completely irrelevant. But if you have got to cull out the unnecessary furniture from your plate of things to go and find in order to furnish your college apartment, tables are certainly the first thing that can be crossed off the list. A dinner tray or two, and you will be good to go!

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