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<p>Affirmative!</p>
<p>Cleaning supplies were never used. Kitchen supplies were never used. Second set of sheets were never used. Printer was used daily by son and roomates. I later bought them one with a scanner that they loved and used daily.</p>
<p>Yes hangers. Remind them not to forget the hangers. My oldest “left his” in the closet when he moved out freshman year so had to buy again for sophomore year.</p>
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<p>H took about a dozen plastic hangers that the suitemates had abandoned in their closets.</p>
<p>Regarding the 2nd set of sheets. He did use them soph year. The sheets from freshman year were gross and ended up in the trash along with the disgusting eggcrate pad. He used the 2nd set all of his soph year and did wash them on occasion. He brought them back jr year and at spring break asked if I would buy him a new set since they had become gross enough that even he noticed.
He is lucky that he is staying at school for summer school and has been assigned to his same apartment. Now he doesn’t have to clean it. I would hate to see the condition of that bathroom. 3 guys.</p>
<p>You can add several packages of swiffers to those un-used clorox wipes.</p>
<p>The one thing I thought D wouldn’t have used is the one thing she reports really using: a sewing kit to help with all of those wardrobe malfunctions!</p>
<p>The one thing that I could never get my daughter to use…the balance book in her checkbook. She would just spend and spend until she got “kinda close” and then sit in her room until more money got deposited.</p>
<p>I didn’t send Son with a thermometer and he ended up buying one when he was sick.</p>
<p>Clock. And desk phone. Silly mom… to think it would be useful in some way when she had a cell phone… :)</p>
<p>Thank you missypie for starting this thread! I can see that lessons on the care and use of a Swiffer, Dustbuster, Clorox wipes, and washing machine should be on my “to do” list for S1 this summer. I already bought some “dropps” laundry detergent packs that you just throw in with your clothes. It still may be too complex for him.</p>
<p>Limabean I almost spilled coffee all over my desk too funny :)</p>
<p>Clothes hangars and wastebaskets. Since we are locals, I sent three small waste baskets and lots of hangars for dorm mates. All unused.</p>
<p>First move to campus, I spent time writing his name, room number and dorm on all the boxes…only to have the boxes whisked from our car in a wheeled cart and unloaded in his room by upperclassmen. Labeled boxes for nothing, it turned out.</p>
<p>We sent D with a second set of sheets that I don’t think was used very frequently. She had a favorite set that she’d wash and put right back on. </p>
<p>Hangars are definitely something that I purchased more than once this year. Don’t get H started on this one. School provided a wastebasket and a mattress pad. Have to make sure I don’t bring those home or we’ll get a bill for those!</p>
<p>I bought a small wastebasket for Son’s room and brought it home after move in. The school provided two wastebaskets and two blue recycling bins per room…they really took up way too much space in the tiny room but they couldn’t not have them. Same with the land line…the school provided a phone for each room - they were not allowed to disconnect it. I guess it was for emergency use but it never rang or was used and it just took up valuable space.</p>
<p>We actually called the RA in to ask if the rooms came with mattress pads or not. I remembered bringing one for the mattress and a cheaper one for the box springs…but I still think I brought home one too many. Rule on mattress pads at the school is that they aren’t provided but are left in the room if left behind…Do you think someone washes them?!</p>
<p>Re: the washing of mattress pads, I know they were at D’s school. Where they were left by students, I’d kind of doubt it! When she went for Orientatation she stayed in a single room and all the linens were provided. </p>
<p>Recycling bins fortunately were in the common room to the suite- girls have definitely been using them. </p>
<p>I had thought of sending an iron but didn’t. I KNOW that wouldn’t have been used.</p>
<p>Yeah, the idea of an iron crossed my mind only very briefly.</p>
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<p>That thought went in and out in less time than it takes to say “Yes” to a glass of wine! ;)</p>
<p>What he didn’t use:
- Extra set of sheets (although he does wash his sheets and duvet cover weekly – first year, he didn’t for a month and was freaking out);
- First aid kit (which he needed but couldn’t find – it was under the set of extra sheets).
- Cold remedies (see parens above)
- Blankets (it is Northern California, but not Minnesota)
- Utensils and place setting (now in an apt., he uses these, but in the dorms everyone “borrowed” from the dining commons).
- Sewing kit. His shorts buttons always fall off. I sent him a sewing kit. He knows how to use it. He didn’t (but saved the buttons so the maid – me – would sew them back on).
- A vacuum. He didn’t have one, but the RA does. He knew it was needed but never found a time when he could get it.</p>
<p>What he did use:
- The printer which also couples as a scanner – and had to run out last minute and buy more toner.
- Hangers
- Towels & wash clothes.
- Fan (he likes the cooling effect in a warm room and especially likes the white noise).</p>
<p>What we bought him that wasn’t brought up:
Fabreze and lots of it. His first roomate used this deodorant – oh God did that cloying perfumed odor attached to EVERYTHING in the room – the bed, the floor, the furniture. Second year, the Addidas flip flops have this pungent smell that even the Fabreze had a difficult time of masking.</p>
<p>My son quickly figured out (after my husband told him) how to bring clothes and cleaning to the dry cleaner who has a “wash and fold” service, dress shirt “light starch and folded.” I’m not sure what it costs him, but at least he handles most of it.</p>