As far as where they store all this winter stuff…my D took everything she owned when she went to college in the northern tundra. She found out that there were a few items she wore all the time and the rest was packed up at the end of the year and never returned to school. 1-2 jackets (extra cold and basic), some jeans and flannel shirts, boots. Daughter tends to wear boots all the time and just ‘winter’ or rain boots when it was really really cold or raining.
I lived in areas that were pretty cold most of the winter. We didn’t spend that much time outdoors so a normal ski jacket worked fine.
I didn’t think D would survive one year, but she made it and with a regular winter jacket, not North Face, Patagonia or Land’s End… She wore thermal underwear beneath her jeans and usually layered a t-shirt with a flannel shirt and a sweatshirt or hoodie. She also wore scarves and, in really bad weather, a mugger cap under her hoodie. Gloves are important, but I also bought her jacket with sleeves that were a little long so she could ball her fists up inside of it and which had velcro around the sleeves so they could be tightened. That’s something I look for in my winter jackets as well. Cold blowing up your arms is so awful.
My middle son wore shorts at his upstate school, year round, and in all but the worst weather, wore just a windbreaker. He has been thermally indifferent since birth.
S17 wears a leather jacket and in weather like today’s, a scarf his roommate knitted for him their first year. He sometimes wears a woolen cap. I asked him if he wanted a winter coat and he said he was fine. He has work boots because he’s a techie but no snow boots and most days he wears sneakers unless he’s working on a production. Thankfully, he at least wears long pants, but not jeans.
@Momof3kidz where is the North Face clearance sale? Twenty-five years ago, we hit an Eddie Bauer warehouse clearance and we still have some of the stuff. It was CRAZY awesome.
Oh my gosh - thermally indifferent! =)) That is the best descriptor for my S23!!
I went to college pretty much as upstate as you can get in NY - St. Lawrence. It was a long time ago but as far as boots went we pretty much wore hiking boots most of the time (and if the snow was not deep or the paths were already made across the quad we would wear the lower hiking sneaker type shoes, back then Merrell was the brand everyone loved.) We also had snow boots like a LL Bean duck boot or Sorels that were taller for the real snow days.
As far as clothes when I look back at old pictures it looks like we lived in baggy jeans, giant wool hippy type sweaters and North Face and/or Carhart jackets. I’m guessing it’s a little different now!
For high school students in the Boston area, Bean boots are very popular. And for the girls, lots of girls wear LL Bean house slippers to school on non-snowy days, if the dress code allows. LL Bean often has 25% off site wide. Pretty sure everything’s 25% off right now. Due to popularity, I don’t think either the boots or slippers ever go below that.
@TwinMom2023 we were at the outlet in Virginia Beach but it is my understanding that all the outlet stores held the sale. There is one in PA that we have been to also but not at the time of this sale. They also have online clearance items at times also.
Unified Schedule Scare! I just realized DS has an 8:00 dance call with one school and a 9:00 a.m. dance call with another. Both are said to last an hour. What to do?
@PugsleyAddams Maybe post this in theUnifieds forum under MT or Theatre/Drama Majors. I’m another Perf. Arts parents but we’re Acting not MT. Off the top of my head I’d say try to call each school and see who will reschedule (then give that school an extra point for flexibility)
Update: D19 was denied at Northeastern Disappointing, but not a huge surprise. When the admitted 5 students from her small school ED, I knew her chances went down. But we’re good. She’s still excited about her acceptances and looking forward to hearing from a few more schools.
Current status…
Accepted: James Madison, Ohio State
Deferred: UMichigan, Tulane
Denied: Northeastern
EA still waiting: UMiami, UConn, UMaryland
RD still waiting: Clemson, UMass, URI
Randomness: I was looking closely at the colleges remaining on D19’s likely list, and discovered—and I don’t know how I’d missed it before—that UAH has less than 10k students! At current growth rates it’s likely to go above that number next year, but still—for some reason I’d thought it was more in the 15–18k range.
(I mean, the place I work at is ~14k students, and it’s got quite a bit less total square footage in its buildings, even leaving student housing out of the comparison.)
@dfbdfb - yes - UAH is definitely small. Having visited UAH I would say you have to want that small feel. S19 really liked it a lot and did not feel like it was too small (our HS is <1000) UNTIL we went to visit Alabama and realized he wanted a big school and UAH would not be the right fit. I think UAH is an amazing school with so many opportunities but the student would definitely need to visit and check for fit in terms of size.
@mountainmomof3, well, D19’s graduating class has 28 students, which is very slightly on the large side for her school, so a small college feel isn’t really a problem for her, I’m guessing! B-)
Yes that is small!!! But our small HS is exactly why S19 wants a big campus. You just never know. But except for the size issue, UAH absolutely checked all of the boxes. It is definitely a “hidden gem!”
Disappointing, but not a huge surprise. When the admitted 5 students from her small school ED, I knew her chances went down. But we’re good. She’s still excited about her acceptances and looking forward to hearing from a few more schools.