With newly minted degrees and professional jobs, in short a real grown-up life, comes a move out of student apartment living. This kind of step needs to be taken with care. NOTE: Never base your decision on the model apartment. That will look clean and light…and there won't be roaches scuttling around.

We moved in to our new grown up apartment complex (with pool!), unpacked halfway…and then started the bombing runs.

We kept nothing in the kitchen that couldn't go in the refrigerator. We spent o...