<p>Goes on top of mattress and then covered with mattress pad. Makes the bed fluffy and soft…just right for a princess. ;)</p>
<p>mom in va - I think this is what they are talking about. [Bed</a> Bath & Beyond - Sleep Basics® Featherbed, 100% Cotton Cover, 233 Thread Count](<a href=“Bed Bath & Beyond | The Best Deals Online: Furniture, Bedding, Rugs, Kitchen Essentials & Moree”>Bed Bath & Beyond | The Best Deals Online: Furniture, Bedding, Rugs, Kitchen Essentials & Moree) I’m planning to get one for D - she has one at home and loves it. I think egg crate vs. featherbed may be a matter of taste and comfort. BB&B has both.</p>
<p>your trip sounds great. H and I honeymooned in the Canadian Rockies. might be nice to do again when D2 leaves in 3 years. sort of completing a circle.</p>
<p>welcome 2by2 and thanks for the good wishes, mythmom!</p>
<p>We will be empty nesters after D leaves at the end of August. I’m looking forward to it but have not done any cleaning out yet. I’m expecting to do things like that after they leave. We are doing the whole shopping thing. One more trip to BB&B and a few things to order on line although much of that was completed today. Just want to finish with the shopping and know that we have it all. We did the egg crate for both kids. They both love them. They have them at home and will have them at school as well.</p>
<p>No empty nest here in August either. DS is in the high school class of 13 so have his 4 high school years gleaming brightly ahead of me.</p>
<p>2by2 Did your boys set out to attend the same school from the beginning? did you have mixed feelings about it? </p>
<p>No secret I was hoping mine would attend different schools that were close enough for weekend visits but this midway step, same campus different dorms, is what they chose and I am beginning to see it as a plus too. </p>
<p>mythmom so nice to see you here. Best wishes to your D in her glamorous academic adventure. How wonderful to have this option!</p>
<p>Harriet…sniff, snorfle, dab dab. </p>
<p>Kohls is having a sale on memory foam matress pads but they don’t have an extra long. Will the regular twin work?</p>
<p>cpeltz we are definately getting the matress covers because …blech…on sleeping on the matress w/o but mine may have to wait until Christmas for the pads. SIL and MIL promised to take them to BB and B but I think they want to buy the fun decorative stuff.</p>
<p>I went with memory foam for ShawbridgeSon that is Twin XL. Here’s the link:</p>
<p>I am going to get bamboo sheets (supposed to be hypo-allergenic) for DS who has allergies to most substances in the universe. DS wants dark brown or black sheets (the better not to know if they need clearning) whereas ShawbridgeWife wants bright white (the better to see the chips, etc.). I figure he’s 19 and he can have the color he wants. Your thoughts?</p>
<p>I need to get a Twin XL dust-mite/mold mattress cover.</p>
<p>My wife also mentioned something about risers. Not sure what these are. Any clue?</p>
<p>Shawbridge:</p>
<p>link didn’t show :(</p>
<p>risers go under the feet/legs of the bed and raise it up to improve storage capabilities</p>
<p>your S should definitely be picking his own sheet color but don’t tell your wife I said so. We in the sorority are supposed to stick together whenever possible ;)</p>
<p>Sorry, historymom. It didn’t show because I didn’t copy it in.</p>
<p>[Soft</a> Sleeper 5.5 Twin XL 2 inch Visco Elastic Memory Foam Mattress Pad, Bed Topper | All Sleep](<a href=“http://memory-foam-mattress-topper.com/Soft-Sleeper-5.5-Twin-XL-2/M/B0016GBGBO.htm]Soft”>http://memory-foam-mattress-topper.com/Soft-Sleeper-5.5-Twin-XL-2/M/B0016GBGBO.htm)</p>
<p>I paid $44.99 including shipping through Amazon and it now looks to be $10 more but still has free shipping. We haven’t received it yet, so I can’t comment on quality but the photo looks good.</p>
<p>Harriet–hee, we are probably the only ones among 1st gr parents who would think ‘class of 2020,’ I bet (takes having a HS senior to get you into the 'class of…" mindset!). :-)</p>
<p>shawbridge–risers are things about 2 inches high that you attach to the four corners of the bed (underneath) to raise it a few inches in order to store stuff. </p>
<p>Son insisted on an eggcrate pad (said the mattresses were rock hard–and he’s the kid who’s crashed on the basement sofa/floor w/a crowd of friends every weekend…). No go on the risers though; claims he doesn’t have ‘any extra stuff.’ Probably right!</p>
<p>We looked at the dust mite cover (I wanted to get it) but it seemed expensive & son claimed also to not need that. Settled for all-natural anti-dust-mite spray to spray around the bed (from BB&B).</p>
<p>Do most people put a mattress pad over the eggcrate thing? So, you’d never do just sheet over it? I’d think so, but not sure…</p>
<p>We’re de facto empty nesters. ShawbridgeSon has been traveling but when he sleeps until 11 and then goes to our cousin’s house to write. We might see him for dinner if it is scheduled and then he comes home to sleep. His sister was in Martha’s Vineyard and now is working in a lab in Toronto for 6 weeks and will go visit her friend on the Vineyard when she gets back. But, we have two weeks with just the four of us at our house outside of Montreal. Then, drivers ed for her, drivers test maybe for him, and off to college at the end of August.</p>
<p>We’re enjoying the empty nest, actually. My wife has been back and forth to NY, which has been beneficial to her career. I’ve done some writing – started my next book – that I wouldn’t have had as much time for.</p>
<p>Jolynne–Since the day younger S started Kind. I’ve always thought of him as class of 2012. When he did his kindergarten tour the librarian welcomed all the little ones by saying, “Welcome Class of 2012.” It stuck with him and me. I was probably the only one though ;)</p>
<p>Mythmom–thanks for stopping in and best wishes to your D on her next great adventure. How wonderful. </p>
<p>We’re down to the boring stuff like surge protecters and extension cords on our list. I did purchase some collapsable storage boxes for D’s closet this weekend at TJ Maxx. D said she probably would not use them but liked the hanging shoe holders. She doesn’t find out her roommate until early August, so we’ll deal with fridges, microwaves then I guess. I’m thinking/hoping she and her roommate agree to just rent one for the year. We are at the under 40 days mark her. Where did the summer go?</p>
<p>shawbridge–I hope when the empty nest day comes in 3 years or so, my H and I can do as well as it sounds you are doing. I love “silver lining” tales.</p>
<p>rrah, Our daughter will be back as she’s a rising junior. But, she goes to a private HS that is 1/2 boarders and so they have activities there – study halls and tutoring in the evening; movies on Saturday etc. So, she’s like 1/2 a boarder – we pick her up around 9 PM and drive her to school in the AM, whereas our son’s school was from 7:20 to 2:30 and he was partially home schooled so he didn’t necessarily go in for full days.</p>
<p>PRJ–thanks for the link, I love the sound of that featherbed!</p>
<p>To all dorm mattress experts: S & I raced through BB&B today and he ended up “registering” for an Isotonic Comfort Three-Zone Foam Twin XL Mattress Topper PLUS a Therapedic Twin XL 300TC Mattess Pad. Are they redundant? Will the pad fit over the topper? Or should we trade both in for the Visco Memory Foam Bed Topper, which seems to come with a mattress pad?</p>
<p>And…I’m also desperately seeking room-cooling advice. I read some good reviews about the Vornado, which is so high-tech it’s not even called a fan - it’s an air circulator. S perferred the more retro classic-looking fans…it true the Vornado works better?</p>
<p>rrah–surge protector & extension cords – great ideas, had not put them on the list!</p>
<p>neuroticparent–we have several Vornados at our house. They are great for cooling and I’m sending one along w/son – it will work really well as a ‘white noise’ machine to block almost all noise.</p>
<p>Another Vornado fan (ha, sorry) here. Our house is full of them, D took one to college, and we’ll send S1 off with one next month. They really do move a lot of air.</p>
<p>no emptynester here, we have one more in HS class of '15 :eek:</p>
<p>On D’s dorm bed this summer, she has a $9.99 eggcrate from BB&B and a mattress pad, underneath the fitted sheet. She says it’s perfect.</p>
<p>We had featherbeds on the beds at home but no one liked them except me.</p>
<p>Son had a featherbed last year which we are now replacing with an eggcrate- it seems his room could have been mistaken for a hen coop with all the feathers that escaped. So our Lab will be enjoying son’s castoff to ease his tired bones.</p>
<p>Jolynne- make sure you check and be certain that the dorm will allow extension cords. D’s does not so we’ll be buying a few more power strips.</p>
<p>Extension cords, power strips, ethernet cord and, if you are installing a TV you’ll need a cable for the TV.</p>
<p>Those were items that we neglected to bring with us but had to buy when we got to D’s dorm. DH was always in charge of electrical items and he wasn’t with me when I was moving D into her dorm. I thought the cable to hook up the TV would be packaged with the TV - found out that’s a NO, so back to Best Buy we went.</p>
<p>Also, bring these items with you when you go down or shop early! A day or two after move-in we found that alot of kids were still looking for these items as the stores around D’s college, which sold out of all them. Same thing with mini-fridge and microwave, pickings are slim or you may have to wait for the next shipment to store.</p>
<p>Ugh. Today = five weeks.</p>
<p>We’re required to bring fireshield capable extension cords and power strips and I had quite the time trying to find them (Amazon finally to the rescue). DS loved his egg crate and asked to purchase one even for his bed at home. Pretty amusing since for the past month he has been sleeping on a couch in his new apartment waiting for his GF to come up with beds. So his twin xlong from school is getting cut down to fit D’s twin bed. (Another thing to jam in the vacuum bag and haul).</p>
<p>Placing order for more cables (laptop to ihome, ethernet, printer). If you need cables by the way, strongly recommend monoprice.com. They have excellent quality cables for about 1/10th the price of others (have bought HDMI cables from them in the past). Even with shipping charges saves an awful lot of money.</p>
<p>4 weeks from today D and I take off but move in date isn’t until Wed. Going to drive the 8 hours in 2 passes and enjoy our time. Then Tues afternoon additional shopping (should be interesting with a full car). I thought it was 5 weeks. Now feeling very blue.</p>