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<p>I’m in awe!!! Mine are sorted by color…must resist temptation to go home right now and sort blouses by sleeve length…</p>
<p>Yes, indeed, we are all in awe …</p>
<p>I should add – she’s had her own (very small, but still her own) room all her life. If she doesn’t make the bed in the morning, she makes it at night <em>before</em> she gets into bed, as she likes the sheets very snug.</p>
<p>It’s going to be more than interesting to see how it works out with a roommate …</p>
<p>I can’t imagine the roommate won’t appreciate your D’s neatness, Zetesis. When it comes to roomie quirks, I would think that one would be pretty desirable.</p>
<p>It is so reassuring to know that other moms of messy girls are dispairing over what their roommates will have to deal with. On our shopping trip today…which was very fun BTW…my lovely daughter said something about how I had “forced” her to put on her roommate survey that she was messy. I nearly dorve off the road laughing. The rest of the conversation:</p>
<p>HM But you ARE messy. Or have you not looked at your room recently?
TK: I know I’m messy but now they are going to put me with another messy girl and we will have no chance of having a clean room
HM: You know sometimes in dorms when people have people stopping by their rooms a lot, it embarrasses them to have it a mess so they keep it cleaner.
TK: (with sincere incredulity and excitement) REALLY?!?</p>
<p>Zetesis: That really is amazing. Like missypie my tops are arranged by color but the sleeve length thing makes sense for a visual person who likes order.</p>
<p>I LOVE Kohls! Here is our take:</p>
<p>7 Tops (only one athletic top in the lot and two with <em>GASP</em> pattern!)
2 pr shorts
2 shower caddies
1 lap desk
4 big bath towels…not bath sheets but nice thick good sized towels
10 wash cloths </p>
<p>all for just over 100.00 :D</p>
<p>historymom, you are amazing. What a haul! And it sounds as if you had fun, too.</p>
<p>Historymom, I think I had a similar convo with my D who was also not going to be realistic about house messy she was…her comment to me was that since she wouldn’t have all the stuff she has in her room it would be much easier to keep clean…I’m sorry, I actully had to gaffaw at that!</p>
<p>oh–gosh–I just realized that my tops are both color and sleeve length. Never even realized it. What should I do?
Did not migrate to D or S. H is annoyingly neat except for his stack of magazines and never filing the paperwork(but it is in a nice stack waiting for me).</p>
<p>Oregon 101, don’t worry; it’s not contagious.</p>
<p>D admits that when the sleeves are sort of elbow length, it’s hard to know exactly where they go. </p>
<p>I should have such worries.</p>
<p>D1 will be a senior (yikes!) and we have kept her hanging clothes on hangers, held together with a rubber band at top and then large trash bag over them with hole at top for hangers. Easy to transport and easy to place in closet! Most of the kids at her school do this. Folded clothes in suitcase, rubbermaid tubs or empty laundry baskets. Again, easy to pack, transport and carry.</p>
<p>Yeah, I moved myself to college in my car – just piled everything in the back seat. Unfortunately, with D, we have to fly … Not quite so easy.</p>
<p>Like the hangers in the garbage bag notion 
The whole how are you getting their stuff in the room question would have made an intereesting side road on the “snobby schools” thread months back. Any of you frequent that one back then?</p>
<p>OK, this is kind of funny. Son received this email from one of the colleges he chose not attend:</p>
<p>"I hope your summer is going well. We realize that you will not be attending (College) in the fall and we wish you the best of luck at your chosen institution.</p>
<p>Many students choose to transfer to (College) every year. If you are interested in the possibility of being a transfer student next fall, all you need to do is email or call us by August 3rd. We will then keep your admission records on file for future reference. We will follow up with more information on the transfer process in November.</p>
<p>As a general guideline, we recommend potential transfer students to enroll in calculus, chemistry, calculus-based physics, and/or humanities courses. Because all transfer students are different, we would be happy to assist you with course selection at your institution."</p>
<p>They’ll help him choose his classes???</p>
<p>fflyscout–son got a couple of 'since you didn’t attend, keep us in mind…" letters, too. Plus, a few surveys about college selection (w/promise of chance to win a gift certificate if filled out—I guiltily admit I filled this out since son never would… shouting the questions over to him as he lay on the sofa!!).</p>
<p>Fun stories about the neat Ds and moms! Sigh, wish I had that inclination. I did suggest to (read: ‘crab at’) the family last night that the house be kept cleaner since I was working. 7 year old daughter scrubbed and polished the stainless steel sink. Then instructed us all not to use it. I think she takes after her dad… :-)</p>
<p>In the interest of helping son not have a dirty smelly room (thinking about roommates’ & visitors’ reactions) got a few of those toilet bowl things that you attach to the bowl & it cleans it w/bleach each time you flush. Also, some solid, odor-absorbing thing that you place in a room to keep it fresh and a motion-detecting air freshener (only releases scent when somone is in the room) for the bathrooms (only $11 at Walgreens). </p>
<p>I’m probably going overboard. Just know that little things can become ‘big things’ when living in close quarters (even if you are in a suite).</p>
<p>PS Just scrolled back thru posts–Harriet, 7 yo daughter is coming w/us to move-in, since we are driving to campus from family beach vacay in the south. Is the whole family coming to your move in? I’m envisioning lots of tears. I just can’t imagine the (17 hr) ride home from campus without son…</p>
<p>Yup, Jolynne, the 7 yo is coming along to help, but this will actually be our first non-whole-family move-in: D has to go down to school a week ahead of S1, for RA training, and on S1’s move-in day, she’ll be busy helping “her” first-years move in, so she can’t help her brother. In past years it’s been great to move D in and out with four adults - three moving, and one chasing/scootering with S2. This year S2 will have to do some lifting and toting or maybe just less far-ranging scootering. </p>
<p>I was feeling relaxed about the fact that S1’s room is on the first floor, until I thought some more about where cars can and can’t go on that campus, and realized that in fact we’re going to have to park behind his dorm and go in through the basement . . . and up a flight of stairs. Oh, well; at least it’s not the fourth floor.</p>
<p>Re the teary ride home: I suspect that many (hundreds of) pages back I posted about what we call the crying station - the gas station about three minutes off campus, where H, who had been stalwart and helpful and kind throughout D’s move in, pulled in, turned off the engine, and burst into tears.* So yeah, tough ride home. And that time, we had S1 and S2 to distract each other. This time we’re going to have one angry/sad S2.</p>
<p>**perhaps needless to say, I hadn’t actually made it that far.*</p>
<p>Ok, I’m tearing up just reading/thinking about this!!! </p>
<p>Trying to think of fun things to do w/son in the 8 days remaining till we leave for family vacay. Seems he’d rather go to concerts & hang w/friends than do ‘family stuff,’ tho. Guess that’s natural…</p>
<p>It’s interesting to read all of the variations on moving these young people. Our current plan is to move D in the afternoon before the official move in date. The university is really pushing early move in. The primary reason I decided to do so is so that DS (ie younger brother) can help and have a chance to say good-bye to his big sister. He goes back to HS on 8/13 (insanely early imho). The plan is to load up the car, pick him up, and head to campus. It’s only about 1/2 hour from home. We’ll appreciate his teenage legs and back carrying things up the stairs. After we get her settled we’ll go out for dinner. If need be, I’ll come back the next day and help her get anything we forgot, otherwise known as battling the crowds of freshman and parents at Target. Living in a college town, I’ve seen the action first hand. It’s similar to the day after Thanksgiving. </p>
<p>There is one little glitch. My mother has indicated she would like to help DD move in so she can see her dorm room. I think it’s a bad idea, but I’m not quite sure how to get out of this. Her health isn’t an issue and she lives close enough she could drive herself. I know she adores my daughter and daughter loves her GM, but I just think it’s a bad idea.</p>
<p>Speaking of messy dorm rooms floors…</p>
<p>When D moved in there was a Welcome! sheet from the RA and a day listed as to when the housekeeping staff cleans, BUT everything needs to be off the floor, counters, etc. because they only clean AROUND stuff.</p>
<p>D turned to her roommate and said “the night before, we’ll just pile our stuff in the corner so she can vacuum.”</p>
<p>Although I must say, looking at her pictures 3 weeks after moving in, her dorm room looks alot better than her bedroom did!</p>
<p>Jolynne, speaking of 17 hour drive home leaving son…</p>
<p>It was very strange when I left D in Orlando and flew home. I literally sat on the plane and thoughts raced through my head that I, for the first time ever, was forgetting her and leaving her behind!!</p>
<p>What I do now is not think about the distance, I think about her at a friends house. When she was home, we hardly saw each other, since she was always busy with friends, school, work and I was always busy with work and driver her sister to sports, etc.</p>
<p>rrah-We always saved Grandma and Grandpa’s visit for Parent’s Weekend so they could see the kids settled and meet their new friends.;)</p>