<p>I just got the flyer in the mail the other day from UF advertising all the bed sheets and was just wondering what is cheaper or easier, buying them from the school service or going to a store and just buying them there. Does places like target sell the right kinds of sheets for the dorm beds?</p>
<p>now a days you can get bedsheets for fairly cheep from like target or wherever. i dont know why, but i just feel more comfortable buying my own sheets. but that may just be me. i cant imagine there being that big of a difference</p>
<p>Oh okay I just wanted to make sure you could buy them at Target and places like that. Yeah I would feel much more comfortable buying them on my own. Thanks!</p>
<p>Make sure you get extra long twin, not just regular twin.</p>
<p>Do you know if they sell them year round or just when school normally starts for college students? Im just wondering if they will be available to buy for the summer session.</p>
<p>They sell them year round, but there is more choices of style during summer and fall.</p>
<p>Kristendotcom, we ordered the bedsheets from the catalogue last year, and they were awful and scratchy. Then I went to Bed, Bath, and Beyond, and got a better quality sheet. They carry the extra-long sheets. BBB sells the sheets separately, and not in sets. (At least they did last year.) If you want to keep the cost down, you might be able to buy just the fitted bottom extra-long sheet, and use a top sheet from home.</p>
<p>We also bought the egg crate foam mattress pad from the catalogue, and that was fine. However, the white mattress pad that we ordered from them DID NOT FIT. I purposely asked when I ordered the linens, and the woman on the phone told me that the elastic straps on the mattress pad would fit over the egg crate and the mattress, but they didn't. I returned the mattress pad and the scratchy sheets in their shipping box, and they refunded my money. Then I bought another extra-long mattress pad from Bed, Bath, and Beyond, and that one fit. BBB has lots of extra-long bed linens for dorm rooms. </p>
<p>Someone told me that Linens 'n Things carries a lot of extra-long linens for dorm rooms, too, but BBB is closer to our house, so I never checked out the selection at Linens 'n Things.</p>
<p>One more thing: BBB also sells really nice, sturdy, laundry bags with thick shoulder straps. Much easier to carry than the drawstring laundry bags.</p>
<p>My son started UF in Summer B, and all the extra long linens were in stock when I went shopping in early June.</p>
<p>Good luck to you,
g8rmom</p>
<p>Don't cheap out! You gotta sleep on these things.</p>
<p>I'll be hunting for some Egyptian cotton sheets this summer... I have to sleep in it... so you can bet it will be as comfortable as I can make it.</p>
<p>BBB, Linen and things, Walmart and Target have lots of choices in long twin sheets that will fit dorm beds.</p>
<p>can we bring our own mattresses?</p>
<p>UbiquityEssence, you might want to call the housing office about bringing your own mattress. The mattresses in the rooms are foam, and they are covered in vinyl. I think the vinyl helps keep bed bugs from invading the mattresses, because that could be a big problem in a dormitory. Not sure, though.
g8rmom</p>
<p>bed bugs?!! are there insects and rodents in the dorms.....?</p>
<p>They have the vinyl beds because they are cheap. Personally, I have never seen someone bring their own mattress. Mostly like you can do it, but you would have to put your other mattress under you bed, since the mattress given will be on you room condition form.</p>