<p>I had only been at school a couple of weeks before I learned the real reason to have a second set: so when the girl in the top bunk swills down a bottle of Annie Green Springs and gets sick in the night… and you sleep in the bottom bunk…well, I don’t really have to describe the rest…</p>
<p>cameliasinensis: I am a emigre from the sixties. My kids could never be as bad as I was (am). They sometimes find me shocking!</p>
<p>Who remembers this about Ann Landers?</p>
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<p>I usually just throw my sheets right back onto my bed after I wash them so two sets isn’t necessary.</p>
<p>At my school, we have various levels of offenses that can be committed again your roommate. Not washing your sheets regularly is a misdemeanor :)</p>
<p>“At my school, we have various levels of offenses that can be committed again your roommate. Not washing your sheets regularly is a misdemeanor”</p>
<p>that doesn’t seem all bad…</p>
<p>This is a funny thread. When I was living in the dorm back in the early '70’s, we had clean towels and sheets provided for us weekly. The towels were thin and scratchy, but they were clean, and it saved that aspect on laundry. The sheets were plain white, rather hospital-like, and came rolled up in a paper tube from the laundry. Sometimes my roomie and I would go down to get the clean sheets and then wouldn’t get our beds made up, and we’d just crash on the mattress pads with our quilts. We thought we were quite bold to be sleeping without sheets! </p>
<p>So unless you forget or were too lazy to go down to the basement to pick them up, we had clean sheets every week back in those ancient times.</p>
<p>cameliasinensis– I suggest checking to see if you can have an iron in a dorm because of the fire hazard. Second, mythmom and I apparantly are 1960’s college students so we’d not much care about you wanting a single whatever the motivation.</p>
<p>If your parents ask “why a single” tell them you will need it to set up the ironing board.</p>
<p>They would seriously forbid irons? Then what do people do about their clothes?</p>
<p>As for singles and debauchery, my mother has spent the past few months cautioning me that I need to protect my dear sweet virginal self from the wicked ways of men, that I shouldn’t reinforce the stereotype that Swedish girls are sexually promiscuous, and that I’d be wise to abstain from alcohol until I’m at least twenty-five, if I’m going to drink at all. That has nothing to do with why I wanted a single, but I don’t think she’d appreciate the insinuations. :eek:</p>
<p>Hahahahhaha “debauchery”… wow. Well, best of luck with either lying to your mother or dealing with the heart attack she’s going to have when she realizes what college is actually like!</p>
<p>As for what people do about their clothes… to the best of my knowledge my school doesn’t forbid irons (and it’s not like they’d actually know if you had one under the bed in a box anyway), but I’ve only ever met two people who had them. So people a) wear stuff that doesn’t require ironing (easiest option), b) wear stuff that really should be ironed, but we’re in college so who cares?, c) beg frantically to try and find a kind soul with both an iron and ironing skills when they find themselves with a job interview or other situation where they really need to look presentable, or d) improvise (I’ve been known to run the shower with a button down shirt hung in the bathroom to steam it when I really needed something). As a last resort, there’s always e) buy a new shirt!</p>
<p>Downy makes a “Wrinkle Releaser” spray. It doesn’t get buttondown shirts crisp and creased, but it can really help when you forget things in the dryer and they’re a tangled wrinkled heap when you get around to folding them.</p>