If you can only afford a rented flat and hand-me-down furniture it's still a home - if you've made the decision to spend your life together why wait?

Much in the way that she exalts the family's dreary knickknacks and hand-me-down furniture as precious heirlooms, she clings to old values in a time of change.

Once, in a semidrunken state, Max explained that he and his wife had lived for years with broken hand-me-down furniture in tiny apartments.

The apartment today is furnished with worn, hand-me-down furniture.

The place is furnished with hand-me-down furniture.

In our apartments in Manhattan, we had hand-me-down furniture.

More recently, Ms. Rivera had set down roots in Far Rockaway, Queens, where she was making do with hand-me-down furniture until she could afford nice new things.

The castle is a strange mixture of old paintings and hand-me-down furniture.

They live in a large, barren apartment with chipped tile floors and hand-me-down furniture, a space their mother tries to spruce up with her children's artwork.

Ms. Rodriquez spends most of her days with Joshua in their small basement apartment, which is decorated with hand-me-down furniture and photographs of the toddler's first year.