<p>I just assumed piranha for the lethal fish question. I guess it’s one of those warnings like “Don’t eat the frozen pizza before cooking.”</p>
<p>A bathrobe</p>
<p>Oh that’s right - forgot about the bathrobe because that came home at spring break. I bought him a really nice plush terry robe - thinking he’d wear it as he returned to his room from the shower - never used. I’m saving it for myself for next winter!</p>
<p>I work at a small university, and I just spoke with one of the housekeepers who told me that the day after the students move out is like Christmas. The kids leave behind microwaves, clock radios, clothes and whole sheet sets - still in store packaging!</p>
<p>lethal fish = electric eel or puffer fish??</p>
<p>I think it is at Penn, and probably lots of other places as well, that there is a swap meet type thing wherein college students donate the things they are not bringing home to a charitable organization who sells them off the campus.</p>
<p>I mentioned this thread to my hs senior D last night & when I mentioned the sheet & Clorox wipe issue, she said “ewwww!” Trying to talk her out of wanting a chair for her room based on comments here but she’s convinced she’ll need somewhere to curl up (she’ll have her own bedroom in a super suite.)</p>
<p>At my son’s school, they had all sorts of recycling bins around, and the Salvation Army truck was parked right outside his dorm.</p>
<p>This is a fun and educational thread. I am taking notes.</p>
<p>We have donation boxes that go first to students and then on to salvation army at my school and at my boyfriends. To date we have salvaged a printer, a television with built in DVD and remote, a refrigerator, a microwave, a stereo, a crock pot, a toaster, a desk lamp, two wool coats, a hiking backpack, a blender, a futon, a rug, a full length mirror, and a bean bag chair. </p>
<p>It may be my favorite time of year!</p>
<p>The box that I loved was the one in the dorm that said, “Please return all dining hall dishware” and it was crammed full of dishware. So kids actually take breakable plates and cups out of the commons on a regular basis?!</p>
<p>Non- lethal fish only! Hahaha! That’s rich!</p>
<p>missypie in my daughters’ ancient dorms you will find what were once the little built in nooks for the hall pay-phone. These are now apparently used solely for the storage of dining hall dishware. :)</p>
<p>I am anticipating that some of TwinK’s trendier tops will return home with tags still attached…sigh…can’t get that girl out of unisex t shirts.</p>
<p>Note to self – May is better shopping than Black Friday – Must take time off of work for college shopping trips :)</p>
<p>This is what happens to all the stuff left by UNC Students:</p>
<p>Tar Heel Treasure - giant yard sale (May 15)</p>
<p>[UNC</a> News - Community invited to claim Tar Heel Treasure at giant yard sale Saturday](<a href=“http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/3626/68/]UNC”>http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/3626/68/)</p>
<p>Notre Dame does the same thing as UNC. Costs $5 for early bird admission. Last year raised more than $54,000, all donated to charities. I think it’s a wonderful idea.</p>
<p>Great thread – lots of helpful info. Shared the link with my D and her response to the unused sheets was “…ewww boys” although it sounds like some girls also only used one set of sheets.</p>
<p>I’m curious what the right number of towels (bath/hand/wash/gym/dish/beach) seemed to be the right amount for dorm dwellers?</p>
<p>I don’t know the right number of towels, but I do know that my sister in law gave my daughter an excellent graduation gift - a complete set of monogrammed towels to take to school. She says she gets teased a bit about the fact that she has monogrammed towels, but there is no doubt who’s towels they are, and none of them have wandered off.</p>
<p>^^ I would like to know that too…I have a girl…so how many towels will she need?</p>
<p>Also curious on the number of girl towels. Boys–1 of everything–towels, sheets, etc. Cleaning supplies-0. Linens to the garbage at end of year.</p>
<p>This thread makes me laugh. I have to have won Most Prolific Mother Packer Award. Having a full-size bed, extended cab pickup, with a topper, <em>and</em> living an hour away helped! I carefully checked the exhaustive cc threads and sent him with enough stuff to survive 3 years in Antarctica!</p>
<p>90% of it came home that spring and sat in my dining room all summer. Lesson learned. He re-packed sophomore fall; took about 15% of it. No complaints on anything he wished he had taken.</p>
<p>They think the medical kit is stupid until they need it. 2 a.m. text: “I’m dying.” Me: “Did you take some medicine?” Him: “I have medicine here?” Boys, sigh.</p>
<p>Mine didn’t use the printer a ton, but school had lots of snow and wind. He was happy to have it for those 3 a.m. papers he was writing. Most useful thing was the toolkit–borrowed by many kids. I haven’t done his laundry since he left for college either, including summers. He doesn’t think I make it “good smelling or fluffy” enough.</p>