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08-08-2008, 09:58 AM
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#31 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Philadelphia suburbs
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| My daughter ended up never needing a printer. Her school had a printing allotment that was sufficient. She did use her second set of sheets........not because she regularly remade her bed but because occasionally someone spilt on the bed at a time that she did not want to do laundry. She took a small television her first semester that came home at Christmas. Because she was at school in NYC she had many visitors so the Aerobed she brought got a lot of use.
Stupid stuff that I made her bring? A Swiffer. WHAT was I thinking.
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08-08-2008, 11:10 AM
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#32 | | New Member
Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Desert Southwest
Posts: 9
| My D didn't use the required laptop lock. Also said she wasn't taking a printer second year. Found out it was easier to use the printer provided in the dorm when software issues kept causing problems with hers. Never ironed anything either...but then again, I seldom do either! | |
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08-08-2008, 11:16 AM
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#33 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 1,202
| fireandrain, interesting about the tool box. I made daughter take one -- she was appalled -- and it was used within 30 minutes of getting into the dorm. (To put together some shelving/furniture.) D did admit the following year (as whe was using the tools during move-in) that the tool box proved very useful and all her suite-mates borrowed it.
That said, there probably doesn't need to be more than one tool box per room/suite. | |
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08-08-2008, 11:30 AM
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#34 | | Senior Member
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Posts: 3,289
| Thanks for the reminder about the deryer sheets. They are also useful as mosquito repellant | |
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08-08-2008, 11:36 AM
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#35 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,150
| I don't think S uses his printer much for printing, but it has a scan function and he uses that quite a bit. Why buy stamps and WALK :  : to a post box when he can scan a document and email it? | |
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08-08-2008, 12:24 PM
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#36 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 439
| D1 uses her drying rack and so do the rest of her suite mates. There is a school iron in each laundry room but is kind of gross...it spits gross steam so she won't use it any more. Uses extra sheets, extra towels, extra everything! She takes way too many clothes because she won't buy them in Iowa because they have sales tax on clothes. Uses her own printer. Her room is very much like home. :0 | |
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08-08-2008, 01:33 PM
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#37 | | Senior Member
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| OK, I returned the tape dispenser and dustbuster today. Figured I'd avoid the inevitable.  | |
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08-08-2008, 01:38 PM
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#38 | | Senior Member
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Thanks for the reminder about the deryer sheets.
| Sorry Jym - that (presumably) typo really made me laugh. Reads like 'derriere sheets' - can't help wondering what they are used for. | |
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08-08-2008, 02:04 PM
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#39 | | Member
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 542
| ^In addition to the oh so soft featherbed, surely we need to send the luxuriously quilted t.p.! | |
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08-08-2008, 02:15 PM
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#40 | | Member
Join Date: Feb 2006
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| I confess I am sending orchestragirl off with a toolkit (she is appalled, but "humoring" me). I had great fun putting it together last week. But then I'm the woman who got excited when my H opened me a store account at an old fashioned hardware store when we were newlyweds... | |
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08-08-2008, 02:39 PM
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#41 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,150
| toolkit and duct tape are essentials! | |
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08-08-2008, 02:50 PM
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#42 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 1,127
| In the end, one persons stupid stuff to pack is another's life saver. There may be no way to really predict beyond the individual's personal characteristics. Just give it your best guess. You can come up with a pro and con argument for any of these objects. | |
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08-08-2008, 04:34 PM
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#43 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 439
| D2 LOVES duct tape! She buys it bright orange, pink and purple. We find it everywhere and on everything! | |
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08-08-2008, 06:50 PM
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#44 | | Senior Member
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| The hot chocolate packets just got vetoed, but the dryer softener sheets are a go! | |
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08-08-2008, 06:58 PM
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#45 | | Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 944
| Ongoing joke at our house is the possible use of "feminine hygiene products" as a green alternative to packing peanuts. | |
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