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mom61
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Posted: Fri Aug 3rd, 2007 06:05 pm |
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I ventured into one of the big linen stores yesterday to browse. They had a pretty good selection of XL sheets but you had to look to find them. They had a dorm section set up in the front with sheets and other stuff that was mainly in girl colors. I ventured back to the sheet section and they had more selection including white, a nice blue, beige and tan. So it is worth looking a bit deeper then the dorm section. I didn't buy anything.
He likes jersey but I am wondering how well the jersey will hold up and look after a semester of not being washed. (I am being realistic) Don't think he is going to wash them often. Gross but true.
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kdmom
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Posted: Fri Aug 3rd, 2007 07:20 pm |
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Thanks everyone for all the great ideas! (Special thanks to limner for the link to the Carleton list. My son's school sent him a list of things to bring, but he lost it  and I couldn't find it online anywhere.)
We used the rhl linens site when my older son went to school. We thought the quality was decent (in fact, we're reusing the sheets for S2) and everything fit fine. The only disadvantage was that, because we had the sheets shipped directly to the school, we couldn't wash them ahead of time. Guess who got to spend registration day in the dorm laundry room? (Son was registering, of course, so Mom did.)
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Fireflyscout
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Posted: Fri Aug 3rd, 2007 08:30 pm |
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It's a bit offbeat, but I made my daughter take a flashlight with her (a smaller MagLite). She has found it very useful and is telling all her friends to take one. Ah, vindication!
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WestrnMom
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Posted: Fri Aug 3rd, 2007 09:03 pm |
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mom61, the sheets get very worn. I didn't think jersey would hold up. If you send him 2 or 3 sets of sheets, he can at least change them more often.
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binx
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Posted: Fri Aug 3rd, 2007 10:12 pm |
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My D is rather messy, so I'm thinking that I will try to get her to take less rather than more, and I will try to make sure she has plenty of storage. That's her biggest problem now - too much stuff and not enough places to put it.
To that end, I bought her 5" bed risers, and two plastic under-bed storage boxes. I am hoping she will use one for out of season clothes, and the other for papers she wants to keep but doesn't necessarily need at hand. If it's easy to stow, maybe it won't just pile up. I can dream...
I also bought her a full-length mirror - the dorm rooms only have small ones. This mirror fits over the door, but the roommate is suggesting hanging it on the wall somehow - She's afraid of the door banging and breaking it. We'll see when we get there. (Closet doors are sliding, so only the room door would work.)
D and her roommate will be sharing a fridge (rented from the school). My D survives on Carnation Instant Breakfast - has for years - and needs a fridge for milk. The roommate is bringing a microwave, too.
And I got her a large plastic tote for the bathroom. The showers don't have benches or shelves. Just two hooks on the wall. So I thought she needed a big enough tote to stow underwear, all her bathroom paraphernalia, etc., that won't get wet sitting on the floor.
I got to buy it all, because she has a summer birthday, and I gave it all to her as gifts. 
She's taking the comforter off her bed, and towels we already own. No new stuff there.
And we're waiting to see if her uncle can find her a cheap second-hand bike, or if we need to bring hers from home. She definitely wants a bike.
Last edited on Fri Aug 3rd, 2007 10:14 pm by binx
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Thumper
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Posted: Fri Aug 3rd, 2007 10:34 pm |
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>> I didn't think jersey would hold up.>.
We just tossed DS's first set of jersey (100% cotton) sheets last week. They were bought for camp the summer after 8th grade. He is entering grad school. They last just fine if you get 100% cotton ones...the part poly ones pill.
My kid won points by having a small vacuum cleaner. It was a LOT easier than looking for the one the dorm owned. It had a telescoping handle and fit under his bed nicely.
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Lynda
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Posted: Sat Aug 4th, 2007 03:01 am |
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Flashlight is a great idea. I sent son with a couple, including a windup one from Costco. Friends are always borrowing it. If only the flashlights would actually help him find lost items in the dark. Umbrellas also got a lot of use-son doesn't lose them but they seem to break.
Refrigerator was a necessity for me in college, so I thought son should have one. We bought son's at Best Buy for less than $100. Some days he had no breaks-he likes the smoothies in cans and boxes. He also stocked up on cheeses for snacks.
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limner
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Posted: Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 02:34 pm |
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We still haven't picked up a laundry bag (I don't think he wants the hot pink one I used in my NYC apartment-living days). I was looking at this at L. L. Bean. It's not specifically a laundry bag. It does hold 6500 cu. in., which translates into more than 28 gallons. Hmm, maybe that's too big.
http://www.llbean.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?page=big-stuff&categoryId=45845&parentCategory=9002&cat4=9921&storeId=1&catalogId=1&langId=-1&feat=9921-sub2
OR
http://tinyurl.com/2tzvoe
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binx
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Posted: Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 03:25 pm |
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My D has this laundry basket. Folds flat (the flat, round thing in the picture). Stays open and sits flat when opened, in order to act as a hamper, and she can fold things into it from the dryer. It's lightweight, and has nice handles that meet in the middle, to carry with one hand.
http://www.spacesavers.com/ezfolder.html?source=froogle
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Posted: Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 05:57 pm |
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| I'm curious about all the fold up or pop-up laundry hampers. I can understand if you need to pack and ship. But if you are driving your goods, would not just a regular laundry basket suffice? We use laundry baskets as hampers. As such, they would always be in the open position anyway.
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Posted: Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 06:02 pm |
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| D has a tall, folding one that ends up in an oblong shape. Even when driving, it's easier to pack; it sits flat on the bottom of the car & stuff is piled over it. The plastic laundry baskets we use at home are hard to pack around, and they often break. She finds them easier and thinks they take up less room (she used them for camp, too).
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binx
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Posted: Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 06:40 pm |
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We bought this collapsible one last year when we first came home from Germany and our stuff hadn't arrived yet. I bought it specifically so it might either store easily or get taken to college, once we had our regular baskets back again. However, that basket became the favorite. It is easier to carry (lighter, and can be carried with one hand.) And it seems to hold more.
But D took a regular basket with her as well. I thought she just took it in the car as a "packing box", but she decided to keep it under her bed at school for extra storage. (She has bed risers, so it fits fine.) It is a pretty sturdy one (of course she took my best one!) so hopefully it won't crack. But she isn't using it for laundry.
She took the collapsible one also packed with clothes in the car, rather than flattened. She is using it as her hamper.
Both my boys took laundry bags to school. The oldest used it - just dumped the clean laundry into it out of the dryer, and wore the stuff out of the bag till the next time he ran out of clothes. Everything was wrinkled. (Dirty clothes were stored on the floor of the closet.) He never even matched up socks! Just grabbed two.
I didn't know this at the time I sent second son off to college with his laundry bag. But he quickly decided that the bag was too much work, and used his suitcase as a laundry basket.
Last edited on Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 06:42 pm by binx
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mom61
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Posted: Sat Aug 25th, 2007 08:37 pm |
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The one thing we did forget was the laundry basket. Son had a collapsing type at home that we planned to bring. Somehow it never got in the car so had to buy another. While we were in Target a mother and son were looking at them. The boy liked the mesh bag. The Mom said No, then all the girls will see your underwear when you head to the laundry room.
We only ended up having to buy a few things. A longer cable for the computer to the printer, extension cord and a couple of school supplies. His dorm floor was vinyl and I asked about a rug but both Dad and Son vetoed it. They both were intent on buying as little as possible.
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Posted: Sat Aug 25th, 2007 09:19 pm |
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mom61 wrote: While we were in Target a mother and son were looking at them. The boy liked the mesh bag. The Mom said No, then all the girls will see your underwear when you head to the laundry room.
Why does this make me think: I see London, I see France...
The least of my worries would be some girl seeing my boys underwear in the laundry. Heck, in some dorms boys are walking around wearing little BUT their underwear. LOL!
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Posted: Sat Aug 25th, 2007 11:34 pm |
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Son moves back to Redlands tomorrow, Sunday after 1pm. I guess he is taking the keyboard and amp,-so everything else will have to fit in my SUV.
I ran to Target to get a few things, somehow we lost a top sheet last year and the old sheet I sent is falling apart. Also bought Lysol, baking soda for refrigerator, and bug spray. I think his first aid kit is still ok,it is still packed-If the Aleve expired over the summer-oh well.
We are not a college town and the UC's don't start for several weeks-the XL sheets are just about gone at Target, lot of "College" shelves were empty today. Ugly grey sheets for this year. Son uses the round mesh laundry bags that collapse for clothes.I should have bought a new one-looks like we are going to break out the duct tape. Son is very good about folding clothes to maximize the amount he can put in one bag. I did not know he could fold so well. He is good at doing laundry, but if he is going to be home soon-that bag is way too heavy for anyone but him to carry. I doubt any girls could ID the contents.
The dog is getting nervous. Best wishes for everyone. Some schedule glitches leave me free Monday and Wednesday-maybe I'll fix up the empty nest.
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Posted: Mon Aug 27th, 2007 12:45 am |
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| Best laid plans.... without moving an entire Wal-Mart into my D's room, there is no way to be sure she has everything. Her glasses broke, and she can't find her spare pair. (I know they're there!) She is just missing a screw, but the local pharmacy doesn't seem to carry repair kits, and she hasn't located a glasses store yet. I wish we had included a glasses-repair kit in with her things. If your kid isn't gone yet, and wears glasses, learn from our mistake.
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limner
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Posted: Mon Aug 27th, 2007 01:48 am |
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| Thanks, binx. I'm adding it to our list. Nothing ever goes completely smoothly; it's just the way life is. Sigh.
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Posted: Mon Aug 27th, 2007 02:42 pm |
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Binx,
Have her check out the local Walmart. They usually have an optical department. I brought a pair of prescription sunglasses to a local Walmart once, and they fixed them with no charge.
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Posted: Mon Aug 27th, 2007 02:47 pm |
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| Her glasses actually came from WalMart, so I suggested that she see if she could get there, since they would be under warranty (they are only a few months old). Unfortunately, she doesn't have a car, and it is not within walking distance.
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Posted: Mon Aug 27th, 2007 03:21 pm |
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This is probably really dumb, but I remember my mom fixing my glasses by using a straight pin or safety pin until she could find a screw.
Son's move into fraternity house was very easy. They have their own back yard and palm tree in the front. It is on Sorority row because the music fraternity is considered honor not Greek by the university. We have a ton of his stuff at home, I hope I can convince son to let us drop it off.
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