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Lindsay F.'s avatar

Thanks for the shoutout!! OMG looking at your apartment takes me straight back to the early 2010s! I have no idea where the pics of my apartment are from this time, but I definitely had plenty of plants that I accidentally killed and at LEAST 2 champagne bottle vases. (I stuck fairy lights in mine and kept them in my kitchen.) RAWR XD omg I didn't need to be reminded of that loool

Nicole Tremaglio's avatar

Of course, thank YOU!! Lmaoooo frat boys put liquor bottles on top of their cabinets and the girls had champagne bottle vases

Angelina Ruiz's avatar

This is so incredible and real as hell. Those girlboss millennial trends had their grip on me tooooo. I also worked in Times Square around that exact time and cannot imagine what it was like living there. Make a little commotion for the post work happy hour days. I would push tourists out of the way if it meant I could get a $6 gin and tonic and a shitty quesadilla.

Nicole Tremaglio's avatar

Omg thank you so much!!! Now I’m like wow that was unhinged, but at the time, I was just excited and happy to be there. Plus I lived right across from Broadway Dance Center and that had been a dream of mine. UGH Times Square Happy Hour should still be a thing. I remember in 2015, Minnie and Hello Kitty characters got arrested bc they got in a fistfight over tips and had to go to jail for a night LOL

The AI Architect's avatar

Fantastic breakdown of how macro trends get embedded in personal spaces without us even realizng it. The quatrefoil mirror thing is so spot on because it felt mandatory but nobody could ever articulate why. I had one too and remeber thinking it was sophisticated when really we were all just following Pinterest's invisible hand together.

Nicole Tremaglio's avatar

Thank you so much! If you owned a quatrefoil mirror, you may be entitled to financial compensation hahah