<p>DS would rather have a root canal than enter a Bed Bath & Beyond with his mother. OK, I can live with that. And I’ll admit, I did have fun doing the shopping. But, I did tell him that decorating his dorm room was entirely up to him. Yesterday he came home with a rather large Irish flag, a string of tiki lights and a poster of Che Guevara. And who says teenage boys have no taste? :D</p>
<p>He sounds “cutting edge” to me. I will be shocked if my S has any <em>decor</em> at all.</p>
<p>Mine informed me that he would be happy to sleep in his sleeping bag all four years! (Anything to avoid going to the store…)</p>
<p>That reminds me, Babboo. When Dh was a college student, his dorm furnishings consisted of a blue, mummy sleeping bag and his beloved poster of a famous German mathematician named David Hilbert. Hilbert is probably still lurking underneath a bed somewhere in this house.</p>
<p>I would prefer a poster of Rodrigo Hilbert. :)</p>
<p>Che Guevara? David Hilbert? What happened to boys having posters of attractive women - are they on the back of these posters?</p>
<p>Ooh - new product idea - reversible posters!</p>
<p>Babboo - actually, that does sound tasteful for an 18-year old male. It could be beer advertising promos.</p>
<p>I had hoped that college shopping would be a nice experience, planning with my son, making the separation more ceremonious. HA! He refuses to shop, and rarely goes into a store unless it’s essential. He just tells me that he doesn’t care about his dorm, and that what little he needs I can pick out. About 10 minutes in BBB was all he could take! Oh well, I guess I should have expected that based on the past 18 years. At least I can look forward to shopping with my daughter, who at 13 is an HGTV junkie and already looking forward to decorating her dorm.</p>
<p>And the funny thing is, my H can’t last in a store for more than 15 mins without breaking out in a cold sweat…everytime we shop, his pager goes off and he needs to hurry, as if the 10 minutes at IKEA was enough…takes that long to find the arrows on the floor!!</p>
<p>S doesn’t care about room furnishings. I bought Martex towels at Costco and XL sheet sets at half-price at Mervyn’s. Sometime in August he’ll buy some new clothes…I hope.</p>
<p>Not to worry. When sons are a bit older (22+) and in grad school or working, they will be more than enthusiastic about shopping with moms because we likely will be paying! My 24 yo S was so happy I was visiting that he took me to L&T to get stuff to refurbish his bedroom in his apartment. He stood at the checkout line like a statue, waiting for me to whip out my credit card!</p>
<p>MSB, Your son’s choice of accouterments reminded me of a story told by a friend – parent of a boy: When she dropped her freshman son off at a large research university, his roommate who had arrived earlier had already decorated the room with not one, but FIVE, statues of the Virgin Mary. The son, who is actually a serious Catholic as well, retaliated with his Che poster. :)</p>
<p>S, a rising senior, already has that enormous Irish flag with the family crest in the middle…up in his room and definitely going with him to college.Its so big it might take up a whole wall in a small dorm room!</p>
<p>Make sure you get the fancy sheets that every one talked about last year, the name of which I had never heard before in my life, and quickly forgot. ;)</p>
<p>OH no, Mini–now you’ve done it!:eek:</p>
<p>mini - would that be the Frette sheets currently on sale (online) for “$869-You-save-$350+”? OK, that is for the queen-size. Twin is certainly going to be cheaper :eek:</p>
<p>That’s them!!! Other than all the musical instruments, I think you could buy all the furniture in my house at a yard sale for $869, and have about half of it left over.</p>
<p>If it costs $869, can you drive it? ;)</p>