When you moved out for the first time, did your folks help?

My first apartment after college was completely furnished. I think my mom bought me some towels etc. I lived there for about 5 years and when I was getting ready to move to a bigger place, I bought what I needed. I've never asked my parents for money...ever.

I love that you still have your gumball machine! We married young, while we were still in college. My parents gave us a love seat and mom tracked down a vintage drop leaf table with 4 chairs. DH refinished them after we were married and we still have them 41 years later! His parents loaned us a small up right deep freeze since our fridge was a tiny, under the counter version that had no freezer. The rest of the stuff we started with were wedding gifts.

When DD moved out she furnished her first apartment with stuff from our house. Now that she's in her second apartment, she still has a lot of hand-me-down furniture. They aren't shabby though. I redecorated the house and she grabbed what she wanted from the old stuff before I got rid of it all. She also has a set of my dishes that she wanted. For Christmas last year we gave her a new set of pots and pans because my old set she had looked awful. She doesn't ever ask for money and is totally off the payroll, but we enjoy helping her out when we can.

I went in the Air Force when I left home so of course didn't need anything. While I was in I acquired what I needed for when I got an apartment. Now with my own two sons I provided anything they needed really. My younger son is leaving in a few hours to move to California and I got him a credit card to fund his trip and get himself set when he gets there. Together we can pay it off. But in the car are several bags of dishes, pots/pans, utensils etc, a lamp, a desk, his TV and game system and a microwave I bought through a trash to treasure site.

My older son moved to a rental home this month and they had quite a bit from their apt.  I provided their sofa/love seat, and all kinds of things. For the new house I bought them a new bed and a used washer/dryer.
So yes, I help them out as much as I can.

they didn't give me any things/money, but they did dump all my remaining possessions on the front porch of the new house when I wasn't moving out fast enough to suit them!

Absolutely. My parents helped me, and I helped both of my kids.

First time out was into an apartment with a roommate. I had a set of dishes and silverware that my parents bought and saved for my "Hope chest." They also got me a small set of pots, gave me a bunch of hand me downs and bought the first grocery trip (basics, toiletries, food).

Post divorce, I got another set of hand me downs, new dining set, and a few basics.

I think it'll be a while before the boys are ready to live on their own but I'm hoping we can at least help them with the basics. Maybe a hand me down or two.

Yes, they gave me some hand me down furniture when I moved into my first apartment. The best thing my mom did when I left for college was fill a giant tote with cleaning products, towels, detergent and many of the little odds and ends you inevitably need when you move to a new place. I’m in my mid30s and my parents still help me out in little ways when they can. I sincerely hope to be able to show that kind of patient, unconditional love to my kids.

Yes.

Just think of it as help with moving!

DH and I lived in an apartment for two years before we bought our house and we furnished and outfitted the entire thing on our own. I don’t recall our parents buying anything for either place although his mom and dad gave us some money for Christmas a few years which helped pay down our credit cards. My mom really wasn’t in a financial position to help us out too much. I was kind of glad we didn’t get handmedown stuff from his parents because their decorating style was stuck in the early 70’s and their stuff was horrifically ugly!

In a way his mom helped us with the house we live in now because we used part of DH’s inheritance as the down payment.

I can understand what you’re saying voltagain from the other thread, but I think what the OP was talking about was all the stuff a first time homeowner doesn’t realize they now need that they didn’t before when they lived in an apartment (or at home with the folks). Around here the thing that catches almost every new homeowner off guard is the first time it dumps down a foot of snow and you realize you don’t own a snowblower or even snow shovel. Then you go out to your car and quickly see that you can’t even get out of your driveway to buy one! 

Nope. I was 17 and 4 days out of high school going into the Army, so I didn't need anything. When I got out, my parents were living on an island in Alaska and I was moving to New Jersey, since I left on a plane, I had just my own belongings. I was 30 when I graduated college and got married. We eloped, so I didn't get much in the way of wedding presents, and nothing from my parents. They had just divorced, and my mom was struggling and my dad kind of dropped off the face of the earth. They did both express how grateful they were that I had eloped, because my older sisters had the big weddings and one lasted 2.5 years and the other under a year. I kind of thought they would give me money, which we would have really appreciated, but nope. Dhs parents didn't give us a wedding present either other than the gift of a wedding ring that had belonged to a great aunt that dh had never known. I love my ring!

A few years later they gave us money for a down payment on our house. At the time we were told it was dh inheritance, but many years later we were asked to repay it, and we did.

ETA: We will help ds.

No. I bought a futon and a plastic drawer unit for my room in my first apartment. Dishes from goodwill.

I grew up poor and they really didn’t have anything that was worth starting a new living situation with.

My mom and my best friend helped me move my other belongings so there was help in that regard.

My parents helped me financially (saving all the ‘rent’ I gave them and giving it all back). It was 20 grand, and it all went to the down payment. So yes they did, but not in any type of housewarming type of gift, which is totally fine. I’d like to do the same with my kids.

Nope. I was the fifth of sixth children and I don't think they helped any of us. You just did things on your own.