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There's a funny article in the NY Times House & Garden section about apartment decor as relationship dealbreakers. Here are some of the examples:
- "sheets with intergalactic battles or pink hippopotami or the Beatles"Sure, a lot of that stuff is weird, but what about when someone you date doesn't have a TV? Or a computer? Or too much technology and electronics? There's a fine line between deliberately kitschy/retro and just being crazy, too. Oh, and we'd add the poster of Audrey Hepburn looking in the window from Breakfast at Tiffany's to the list.
- Stuffed animals
- A grown man's room looking "like a teenager's room. The computer was up there and the twin bed, his clothes were all over the floor."
- Overhead lighting
- Waterless bong, lots of $750 shoes but unrenovated digs
- Prints of Klimt's "The Kiss" or Doisneau's couple kissing
- The apartment being too nice
- Bed stands with bitten nails
- Stuffed baby seal, Sonic the Hedgehog figurines, and Legos (in the apartment of a 46-year-old man)
Have you dumped someone after seeing their apartment? And earlier this year, we wondered if your pet could be a relationship dealbreaker. But in the Times story, a man ended up marrying a lady with a rabbit running around the apartment, so you never know.
Dealbreaker-worthy? Stuffed animals AND a cat lounging on a bed
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Or, what about a PackRat? Too much electronics? hell, that's almost every guy in the city.
Any word on a Gun Safe as a dealbreaker? that would be interesting. Or, any large safe in general. (the large one ton jobs that takes four people to deliver to your apartment, had a neighbor who had one)
Oh, any guy with a Audrey Hepburn B at T poster or photo get's on the list. I assume you mean the one with her holding a cig in a cig holder with long black gloves.
what's wrong with a gun safe? who's going to protect you from the zombies?
not having a TV is a dealbreaker? - odd
Hahaaaa, thanks New York Times, now I'll never have to break up with another girl again. I'll just bust out my star wars sheets, leave out my old bong, pile up my clothes and put my computer next to my bed. Oh wait, I already have all those things...damn
What's wrong with an Audrey poster? Friends of Audrey aren't necessarily Friends of Dorothy!
Wait - what? Overhead lighting?
You know what's a dealbreaker, her being fugly all the time!
Overhead lighting? I bet that chick is a headcase. Couldn't agree more on the Klimt/Doisneau comment. That's a great one.
I reserve a little spot in the corner of my spleen for people who put on their wall a reproduction of Raphael's angels from the Sistine Madonna. Ah, what fey whimsy! These same people most likely also drink flavored coffee.
"doesn't have a TV? Or a computer?"
you are officially weird.
I once broke up with a guy after seeing his apartment, or at least seeing the guy in his element in his apartment. It was like a frat party every night, and the guy had almost NO furniture.. a twin mattress and boxspring on the floor (no bedframe), a milk crate for a bedside table, and a small desk were the only things in his room. I was 26 at the time, he was 25 going on 17. I couldn't deal.
Are you all serious that these things are dealbreakers? I'm hoping this is a joke I'm just not getting.
What drives me crazy is women who have self-affirming literature around their bedroom, on posters, or otherwise.
"You are wondrous, delicious, extremely brilliant..." kind of stuff.
I once stopped dating someone after I saw his apartment. This nice, intelligent, nearly 30-yr old guy had posters of teeny bopper celebrities hanging over his twin bed (it was a studio apt), and he had one of the filthiest apartments I'd ever seen. I'm a pretty open-minded person, but it's hard to maintain an attraction to a guy who keeps his apartment like a 15 year old girl's bedroom, and who doesn't think, "Hey I've got a date tonight-- maybe I should get the greasy condiment bottles off the coffee table just in case."
Havent you heard-it's like the world is on a tilt and all the pathetically high maintenance, self-centered, just insufferably weird men and women of the world roll into NYC to make each other jump through hoops for the 'honor' of dating them.
So no, it's not a joke that you are just not getting. It's NYC baby!
If my Audrey Hepburn poster is a dealbreaker for some guy, I don't want him anyway.
I think dealbreakers for men are a lot different than for women. As long as the guy is getting some, I doubt he's going to complain 3 or 4 stuff animals on the bed. Why ruin a good thing.
If my Audrey Hepburn poster is a dealbreaker for some guy, I don't want him anyway.
I am so happy without a tv. They are very overrated. (Though I do have a nice 20 inch computer monitor that is excellent for watching movies). I'm surprised that it is such a dealbreaker for the rest of you.
[11] did we date the same guy?
i went out with a guy a few times, who worked as investment banker and was making good money. like, a lot more than i was.
he lived in a crappy rent controlled studio apt (not even an alcove), with a 40 year old roommate (we were 24 at the time). they hung a sheet between their (twin) beds. they had lived there for 5+ years and never cleaned the bathroom. the place was so full of crap that it looked like howard huges had been the previous tenant. he would spends hours texting backing and forth with his sister, almost like she was his girlfriend or something.
reading this i realize he was not nuts but i was for going out with him.
Are we banning all Klimt paintings here or just the overly romantic Kiss? PS- I can see no computer as being a deal breaker- but no tv? That's actually kind of intriguing...
the little yapping doggies jumping all over the two of you in bed are more than mildly annoying. listening to them yowl and scratch at a closed door while pissing the floor out in the hallway is not any sort of a remedy.
'dealbreaker' here doesn't mean you immediately walk out in an indignant huff -- but why should she be surprised if you don't come back?
i mean some people consider children a dealbreaker, but their intrusions are rare accidents that don't repeat.
I love that the guy in the beginning of the article is really rich but lives in a $700/month apartment. Meanwhile, the rest of us slave on...
I hate girls whose bed has 14 pillows on it. It's covered halfway with pillows and they are in such a specific order! It all just winds up on the floor every night! Rediculous.
I've never heard of the term dealbreaker but now I see.
Guys who sleep on a mattress, no boxspring, no frame is one. I don't want to sleep on the floor. Spend that $1K and get a decent bed, you'll thank me.
And, if you have allergies, please, no snot rags everywhere.
What weird stuff do you guys have hanging around? I'm really curious about this stuff.
I have:
Spiritualized poster
Einstein poster
Stuffed penguins
Large painting of orchids
I'm a 25 yr old straight male.
women with cats. total deal breaker.
no books=deal breaker
Overhead lighting? WTF??
studio lights and a camcorder on a tripod in the bedroom = deal breaker
Thanks, # 23. Was wondering why no one mentioned that yet.
Mr. Podell may be a rich guy w/a $ 700 a month apt., but he's also stupid.
Why is he going around advertising his salary and then bragging about his rent stabilized apartment??? His apartment can be easily de-stabilized by his landlord, no??? It should be, in fact. What he's doing is illegal and gives people who genuinely NEED rent stabilization a bad name! Anyone?
Plus you know he thinks he's hot shit w/his $$, cheap apt., and 22 yr. old Russian girlfriend. Mr. Podell is a dirty old man who thinks he's unique, but isn't. He can't cook and has no sense of style. He is wearing these hideous leather MANDALS w/a red turtleneck sweater and a studded belt! Ugh, why is he showcasing his hideous feet to the world? I think he also looks like a werewolf.
I suspect his girlfriend is Russian because stylish NYC women wouldn't want to be seen w/someone who dresses like that.
Oh and other "deal breakers":
-fake plants of any kind
-90's style CD towers made of "simulated wood"
-Too many "Idiots Guide To...." books
-That used sock smell that permeates a lot of male inhabited apartments. Just start dropping off your laundry already!
-Oh yeah! TEVAS OR MANDALS - no, no, no! One pair of flip flops are permitted - for let's say the beach or the shower @ the gym. Other than that, keep those Flinstone feet covered.
I can admit that I refused to go on another date with a dude after I saw his apartment—moon/stars theme in bathroom and a jungle print comforter in his bedroom. And no, we didn't hook up. I got the fuck out of there.