<p>My thoughts exactly citygirlsmom! Dito for those rugs in front of the toilet! We use washable bathmats in front of the shower. Like the kind at hotels. I don’t like anything that resembles carpet in a bathroom, but I’m kind of a germ Phobe.</p>
<p>I can see having a hook to put stuff on WHILE using the bathroom, but I wouldn’t leave nuttin in there, at least for a while to be sure someone didn’t “borrow it”</p>
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<p>Sigh, WashDad, can your Mom please talk to my Mom? My wonderful mom is 80 years old, and I’m really fortunate she flew out here to spend 10 days with us just now so our nest wouldn’t feel so empty…</p>
<p>But she kept talking about our guest bathroom, fussing with us for keeping the door ajar, and so on. Still, I don’t argue with her anymore about anything; the time is too short, at age 80…</p>
<p>Also, she rearranges our furniture in every room, or rather, has us push it around to try out new things. :)</p>
<p>I can’t call her a helicopter, more like a biplane.</p>
<p>paying3, </p>
<p>We’ve adopted this policy w/our parents. “When in Rome do as the Roman’s do. When the Roman’s come to your house, do as the Roman’s do.” They only come a couple of times a year and we only go there once a year, so we just would rather not argue. I lost my mom this year. I wish I could have one more of those toilet seat conversations with her.</p>
<p>I used to use the publics in the classroom buildings. They got cleaned every day, and relatively quiet especially when you use it while the class rooms are being used.</p>
<p>the Ents are not happy that we cutting down the forests for pulp when the trees can provide an endless supply of material without killing it (tree). </p>
<p>Buckeye Leaves are great. American Elm are good also. Apple have a supple softness fuzz. Avoid evergreens as fir and pine.</p>
<p>Another invention from the Chinese.</p>
<p>$6000 for 9 months… $667 a month… living in an apartment style suite with 4 - 8 people and paying that much… having to clean the bathroom themselves… well, it is analogous to what they will experience if they decide to live in NYC (or more likely in Brooklyn) right after they graduate :)</p>
<p>I think if I can remember back, when I lived in suite my sophomore year and a student apartment my junior year we had to clean our own suit/ apartment, and supply our own cleaning products and TP. The same was the case my senior year when I lived in an off campus apartment. This was in the early 1990s, so nothing too new. I also remember that the cost of the campus “non-dorm” housing was more expensive than the dorm… the off campus apartment was comparable </p>
<p>PS. paying3tuitions – I laughed out loud in my living room picturing the young man moving in with the 5 cans of Fabreeze… you never can be too prepared ;)</p>
<p>KatMT, I haven’t checked to be absolute sure, but I’m pretty sure we are paying about $2,400 for our son’s dorm room (4-person 2-bedroom suite, plus another $2,600 for food). That’s why I don’t worry about who cleans the bathroom.</p>
<p>my dorm room came with TP but the apartment buildings did not. your son will have to suck it up and purchase some… no big deal. it’s not like it’s expensive… might as well learn to purchase Tp some day…</p>
<p>allies, at my apartment we purchased four of those stacking up cubes and put them in the bathroom - that way everybody had a shelf to put their bathroom stuff on - we also bought an over-the-door hanger for our towels. It only cost about 15 bucks total and was pretty easy. We did have a mat in front of the shower and a mat in front of the toilet, but no toilet seat cover. Before you buy one make sure her toilet is the kind that has a lid that can be shut. A lot of college bathrooms use the kind of toilets at like resteraunts where there is no lid in the first place. I personally think the toilet seat covers are really ugly - but hey, to each his/her own. </p>
<p>Good luck with your shopping!</p>
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<p>“Most of the world” doesn’t have a disposal product choice or functioning sewer systems. The countries I’ve visited personally had TP (the UK, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Canada).</p>
<p>I consider both the regular plastic seat cover and the cloth covers for those covers pretty useless. But I did give my son a bath mat. More of a safety issue so that you don’t slip on the floor with wet feet. </p>
<p>When I was at Harvard there were work-study kids who cleaned suite bathrooms - I think that was kind of rotten frankly. My son is in an apartment style dorm room - I believe he has to clean the bathroom and supply paper. I hope they are up to it!</p>
<p>Hello everyone, I’m allie’s mom’s daughter, Allie! Yes, my school does provide toilet paper (we pay enough money to be here anyway, that’s the least they could give us!) AND, I do, in fact, want rugs in my bathroom. They’re only unsanitary if someone happens to “miss,” imho, and they can be washed, too! I grew up with rugs in my bathroom for my entire 18 years, and no, I have not managed to contract any deadly diseases…yet. :)</p>
<p>-Allie</p>
<p>Good luck Allie!! I love your name BTW.</p>
<p>I do have rugs, by the shower and by the sink, but nada around the toliet</p>
<p>and remember, at home, you know usually who is using the todey, but in college, well, your roommates bf or guy friend may not be so, well, neat and clean</p>
<p>Thanks, Sarahsmom!</p>
<p>This is one of the most unusual CC threads!! LOL </p>
<p>Well, I am enjoying it but do need to get back to work. </p>
<p>First, hello allie and welcome! It took a toilet paper thread to get you to join CC! J/K I hope you are enjoying college, bath mat and all. I think my girls had bath mats every time they have had the private type bathrooms too. </p>
<p>WashDad, how lucky that your son’s dorm costs are so low. At one of my daughter’s schools, the dorm cost us $12,000 and that did not include the food. </p>
<p>Paying3tuitions…I really loved your post…I think it was #63? The one about your mom coming and hovering and changing everything in your house or asking you to do so. You sure we haven’t changed moms? LOL I cracked up on your “biplane” remark. My mom doesn’t even want to come to my house because she cannot accept the way I keep it.</p>
<p>I do wonder how many people who’ve read or had input on this thread were the ones nervously watching/guiding/pulling their kids through the college admissions process a short time ago. Now, TP is an issue that is taking up valuable thinking time?!! Everyone should step back and realize how lucky we are!!!</p>
<p>I’ve been reading it because I find it fascinating that people are so concerned about TP. I think it’s great that there is so much time and effort devoted to such a trivial problem. And not trivial in a bad way. But that the real problems college aged kids could have are apparently not much of a concern. Also much better than listening to everybody argue politics and never convince anybody of anything.</p>
<p>Alliek: That’s my girl! BTW - I bought the rugs yesterday - LOL!!</p>