<p>My son and his sharpie: used EXCLUSIVELY for marking his golf balls - and I’m pretty sure he knows exactly where every single one of those balls are (and after watching him blow up in the Boy’s State Championships today I know where one is - in the ravine off the 9th hole, right where he tossed it in disgust!). Don’t think he has any clue where his towels are, though. I do - right on his bedroom floor, as the phrase “towel rack” means absolutely nothing to him.</p>
<p>The Ipod is engraved with his name - it was a birthday gift that my daughter ordered on-line with her school discount and we agonized for quite a while over exactly how to personalize it: First initial, then last name? First name and last name? First, middle and last initial? Didn’t matter - he still thought it was stupid to have it personalized. But I don’t care - it’s still in his possession.</p>
<p>Daughter came home from college with all the towels/linens we sent her with - nothing monogrammed or sharpied or occult symboled (though I do like that idea!). Girls - gotta love that they love their stuff and sorta keep track of it. And, by the way, the hair wrap-around towels are a wonderful space saver item that saves carting extra towels around.</p>
<p>One of my son’s graduation gits was a nice set of monogramed towels. They came back same condition they left, I don’t believe he ever used them. He used the two large beach towels I sent. I also sent a large stack of washcloths-they returned with the same rope I tied around them. None of the other clothes had tags, he probably was the only XL on the floor, so maybe the Xl was the “tag”.
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<p>OP - sounds like you have a sorrowful situation but your D is lucky to have you even thinking about all this stuff. Whether we monogram or sharpie or nothing, I think having parents who care about the details does filter down. I was talking to my D today and I told her I had made a list of everything we needed to get for her to take to school. She said, “Awww.”</p>
<p>thanks for giving me my lol moment for the day. You may have hit upon something here:</p>
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<p>I was in the bed bath and beyond with my sister yesterday., and I was purchasing those shower puff things for the bathroom. I asked my sister did she think she should get some for the boys (ages 10 & 13). Her response:</p>
<p>I got boys, it’s bad enough that I have to tell them everynight that they cannot sleep on the beds if they do not bathe. They need wash cloths but not the good ones, because I don’t know what they do with them because they never seem to make their way into the laundry from their bathroom. That’s why I never let them near the good stuff.</p>
<p>Then she happily purchased (2) $9.99 packs of 12 washcloths and said come again with me next month and I’ll be purchasing some more. Help her when they go off to college.</p>
massmom, at this very moment DS’s bed has a neat line-up of dollar bills in two rows running length of the bed. They are drying out, as he DID turn the washer on. Called me to ask “what happens if I break my cell phone?” It was in there, too. Told him it might dry out, but antenna broke off so I guess it’s totalled. Tomorrow, he gets to see how cheaply he can find a suitable replacement on his nickel.</p>
<p><em>at least he does his own laundry. that is a *good</em> thing, isn’t it :rolleyes:?</p>
<p>My oldest D was a day student at a school with many boarders, so every one was supposed to label their clothes for laundry. She did not like that and avoided it whenever possible, yet frequently would run accross some one else wearing her stuff and it would have their name on it, as it went through laundry with their clothes!</p>
<p>Girls are horrid borrowers and every lousier returners! I would like to name everything of my Ds. True, some people may still not return what they have borrowed, but at least you know (and they know!) that they are bonafied thieves and not simply some one who ended up with an item they cannot return. If the jacket has some one else’s name it in, it’s not yours, return it :P</p>
<p>I never thought of the monogramed towels, it might be classier than a camp style name tag!</p>
<p>jmmom - Cell phones are expensive to replace unless someone is due for a new one. Verizon let me upgrade mine pretty inexpensively outside of the two year deal, but gave my S a hard time when he lost his. Turned out we were able to upgrade his father’s and pass an old phone down. He admired the new camera phone , but is too cheap to purchase his own. Went with the free hand me down. Cash and entire wallets have gone through the wash a number of times at my house. Cash drys out well, paper learners permits do not. They both get to replace these thing on their own.</p>
<p>Dollar General has surprisingly fluffy, nice towels/washcloths that are very cheap. S used them the past 2 yrs at residential school and will take same to college. Just a recommendation.</p>
<p>Have him check his bill. If he is paying insurance on his phone (most likely he is) have him contact the his providor to get the number of the insurance carrier. The carrier ill charge him something like $35 and ill send him a new phone along with a repack kit to mail the old one back. we did it on both the sprint and verizion plans.</p>
<p>Yes, we have washed a few phones in our house. One did dry out and end up working fine the other one we did the insurance route.</p>
<p>regarding the Ipod, if you are still under warranty let it dry out see if you can send it to be repaired (cost about $40 for a replacement) or if you live near one of the genius bars, make an appointment and drop it off. The $59 for the 2 year extended warranty is a life saver and well worth the money. </p>
<p>It’s really sad somedays that I know these things but we are living proof that these things happen to girls too.</p>
<p>Sybbie-Thanks for the suggestion. This happened last year and we did go the warranty route-the Ipod was only 3 weeks old. The nice thing about Ipods is that they easily fit inside a pocket. The bad thing is that they easily fit inside a pocket.</p>
<p>Well DD will have to live with the towels with our entire last name sprawled across the hem in Rub-a-Dub, because she was amenable to taking some of our old towels. If they are too geeky, she can find herself a ride to Walmart and get some new ones. She wants to take our old beach towels to wrap up in and was disdainful of my observation that they would take hours to dry (we have some very thick heavyweight beach/pool towels bought at Sam’s years ago) - oh well, she’ll learn.</p>
<p>The engraving on expensive items like a laptop sounds like a great idea, I hope that’s an option at her school.</p>
<p>My son’s towels were a gift from one of my best friends. At least he didn’t lose them. My friend has a monogram connection and sent sets to college with her son and daughter. I now think her son just told her he used his set. the daughter loved her set.</p>
massmom - I am proud to report that S also is too cheap for the camera phone he initially set his sights on. He could have blown $200 of his summer earnings on it, but went for the much more sensible $44 number. sybbie - I was too cheap ( and too dumb!) to go for the monthly insurance. Now I know better - bought the insurance for his laptop when we ordered it earlier this summer and obviously the time has come to go for the phone insurance too.</p>
<p>ps - the cash dried fine; been there, done that. Paycheck was in shreds; S took in the “evidence” to his (understanding) boss and asked for a new one.</p>
<p>Yes, I usually find change. I will try to give ten and twenties back to the owner. Normally don’t get bills unless the wallet goes through the wash. With only one S home for the summer (younger S is a CIT this summer, his laundry is being sent out) it’s easy to fiqure out who owns it. Yesterday, his cooking knife from work. (S is a grill cook for the summer) went through the wash. Was in his shorts wrapped in tin foil so that no one else used it. Blade broke off. Didn’t seem to damage the washing machine or his clothes. Suggested again that he take a look in his pockets before stuff went through the wash.</p>
<p>I think that the worse laundry mistake I did was wash a load of clothes on vacation with a tube of chapstick in the pocket. We were in France skiing and it ruined all of the turtlenecks.</p>
<p>Hey, I heard that DW-40 is good for removing lipstick that has gone through the washer and dryer. A know it’s too late for you, massmom, but it’s something to try in the future!</p>
<p>Your suggestion, dmd77, assumes that said child actually puts worn clothing into the washer (or hamper), rather than leaves it strewn (artfully a la Jackson Pollack) about his or her room, for later viewing or collection by “others”.</p>
<p>BTW, for those who are still shopping for sheets and who are either appalled at the chartruese, purple and day glo orange colors being pushed this season seemingly everywhere or whose child is going to a cold climate and want xl flannel sheets, LL Bean has a nice selection. We ordered over the weekend and I got an e-mail this morning saying that they’ve been shipped.</p>