Hubby and I started life together with a bed bought on credit, but the rest was all garage sales and hand me downs. We ate at a $20 card table with chairs, sat on a zebra pile sofa with no legs (cinder blocks), cooked with 3 pots, one bowl, and 4 plates. Our end tables were cardboard boxes and our bookshelves were the standard pine planks and cinder blocks. We watched that 10” black and white tv for probably 5 more years. We didn’t feel deprived because we didn’t have better, we just saved till we could afford it.