Setting Up GOOD LUCK in a New Apartment

By GETAUVE Editorial Team · Published October 26, 2026

Setting Up GOOD LUCK in a New Apartment

Unpacking takes a week. Setting up the one drawer you'll actually use takes ten minutes.

A new apartment changes where everything lives, including this. Here's a ten-minute setup that survives roommates, thin walls, and a drawer that sticks.

The Short Answer

Pick a drawer that opens quietly, confirm it's deep enough for a 4.7-inch body, and put a charging cable within reach of it. Test the door latch from the hallway with the device running at level two. Then attach the habit to something you already do at night, so the device doesn't end up in the bottom of a box. Ten minutes now saves a month of not using it.

The Ten-Minute Setup

Do this on the day you unpack the bedroom, not the day you unpack everything else. The bedroom is the room that decides whether the device gets used.

Four steps, in order: drawer, cable, door, trigger. Each one takes two or three minutes, and skipping any of them is why devices end up in a bag under the bed.

You'll need the device, a USB-C cable, and a folded towel. That's the whole kit. No shelf, no lockbox, no special case. The limitation is that a soft setup like this offers no real privacy, so a roommate who opens the wrong drawer will find it.

Step One: Measure the Drawer

GOOD LUCK is 4.7 inches long and 1.1 inches at the widest point, which fits almost any bedside drawer. The constraint isn't length. It's clearance.

Open the drawer and look at what's already in it. A nightstand drawer that holds a book, a charger, and a lamp cord has about two inches of usable depth left, and that's enough if nothing is pressing on the device.

Pick a drawer that closes with a soft slide rather than a slam. A drawer that sticks needs a shove, and a shove at midnight is louder than the device will ever be.

If the only drawer is metal and closes with a clang, line it with the folded towel. That's the same towel you'll use for the surface later.

Step Two: Solve the Charging Spot

Charging is where most setups fail, because the nearest outlet is behind the bed and nobody wants to move furniture twice.

You need roughly 90 minutes of charging for about 70 minutes of use, so this isn't a daily task. One cable in the drawer is enough, and it doesn't need to stay plugged in.

Run the cable out the back of the drawer if there's a gap, or coil it inside if there isn't. A cable that has to be retrieved from behind the nightstand will stop being used by the second week.

Don't charge inside a closed drawer on a regular basis. The shell is sealed and holds warmth, and a sealed device charging in an enclosed space runs warmer than one on an open surface. Charge on top of the dresser, then put it away.

Step Three: Test the Door

This is the step people skip, and it's the one that matters in a new building.

Turn the device on at level two, close the bedroom door, and stand in the hallway. At about 42 dB, it should be inaudible over ambient noise. If you can hear it clearly, the door isn't the problem. The gap under the door is.

A rolled towel along the bottom of the door is an old trick and it works. So does a fan in the hallway, which masks the higher frequencies that carry.

Do this test once, at the hour you'd actually use the device. A building at 7 p.m. sounds nothing like the same building at 1 a.m., and the difference is the whole reason the test exists.

Step Four: Build a Trigger

A new apartment has no routines yet, which is both the problem and the opportunity. Nothing is habitual, so you can attach the device to something that is.

Say you already lock the front door at 10 p.m. and plug in your phone. Pick one of those actions. Then put the device in the drawer you open at that moment. The habit forms around the action, not around the intention.

This sounds like productivity advice applied to something that isn't productivity. It is, and it works for the same reason: intentions decay, cues don't. Before bed is the cue most people already have.

The 3-second travel lock is worth using during the move itself. A device rattling in a box with cables will get pressed, and a dead device on the first night in a new place is a small but real disappointment.

When the Setup Doesn't Fit the Apartment

If you're in a studio with one shared wall and a roommate who's home all evening, no drawer placement solves the timing problem, and the honest answer is that this is a device for the hours they're out. If the only private storage is a bathroom cabinet, skip it, because humidity is worse for the shell than a bedroom drawer. And if you're sharing the room, the drawer isn't private, so a soft pouch in a bag is the more realistic setup.

Sources

• Occupational Safety and Health Administration — reference levels for common household sound.
• International Electrotechnical Commission — IPX7 ingress protection definitions.
• Consumer Product Safety Commission — guidance on lithium-ion battery charging and storage.

This is general education about setting up a device at home, not medical advice. If a device causes discomfort, stop using it and consult a clinician.