<p>The only thing we plan on using the space bags for is bedding, towels, and perhaps hoodies. I don’t think any of these items is going to suffer from less than 24hours of compression/wrinkles.</p>
<p>Wow! Thanks for all the great ideas for tennis shorts! We plan to do a shopping trip tomorrow (just another in a long series of shopping trips - and this, from a NON-shopping D!) I knew I could count on you guys! Will let you know how we do…</p>
<p>I am finally caught up with the thread! I almost fell off my chair actually seeing our move-in date in print! Reality, what a concept! So nice to see D and S having fun together. S has been program director for a boy scout camp all summer, so this is precious time together. H texted me mid-day to let me know that “the kids were shooting each other when he left for Home Depot” - Funny, but in context, understandable - Gears of War. :)</p>
<p>Going out for a family dinner tonight - BW3 - a family favorite. Always good to be together.</p>
<p>Thanks to those who are on the other side of Move In Day - it is very comforting to hear that things went smoothly and you managed with few tears.</p>
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<p>Good point. I think that, not only should the tuition be refunded, but the college should also pay said parent for being spared four years of the hypothetically deceased offspring. The real question is whether it would be justifiable homicide. I do not think a true jury of our peers would even consider a conviction!</p>
<p>Military Mom - How do you plan to hang your daughter’s quilt on her dorm wall? Chicago does not allow any nails in walls, and I would love to figure out how to hang a twin-sized quilt that my great-grandmother made. </p>
<p>The mother that made the dress fabric quilt has my vote for mother of the decade (and kudos to the daughter for appreciating it).</p>
<p>What did I do wrong with my quote thing? I am such a slow learner!</p>
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<p>It’s beyond editing now (20min I think) but have another go at it! :)</p>
<p>325–Does the quilt have a sleeve for hanging? If so, use two command hooks and a dowel. Put the dowel through the sleeve, the place the command hooks so the dowel ends rest on the hooks. Instant quilt rack!</p>
<p>Yesterday was DS2’s last day at work. It was pouring down rain this morning so I let him sleep in rather than have his last encounter with the lawn mower for the summer.</p>
<p>At noon, I woke him to get started on some packing. I said he needed to spend two hours a day on packing and organizing until we leave on Tuesday night. Told him to start in his room and put anything that needed to go to school on the dining room table. (Not clothes.) I walk by the dining room 30 minutes and find:</p>
<p>8 Nerf guns, a Nerf sword, a Nerf axe, a Nerf shield, a Nerf vest, and an aresneal of Nerf darts, including a whole strand thing that goes over your shoulder and a tripod.</p>
<p>Think we need another trip to Target for a Nerf storage box.</p>
<p>After that, he started on clothes. He wants to hang his t-shirts so he can take more. (The closests are very large in the newer dorms–for boys.) He asked how many t-shirts he should take. I said 14. He came back with 16–all from ThinkGeek dot com, plus 7 Mizzou-related ones.</p>
<p>It’s going to be an interesting five days…</p>
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haha. I got a groupon for Hasbro and plan on sending S some nerf gun stuff.</p>
<p>S ran out of time last night to finish the mowing the lawn. Of course, he leaves the strip that runs between the sidewalk and the street for last. WTH? He mowed the rest of the front, why move to the back until the front is all done?? Now it will not get done til either H or I do it or the next time the lawn is mowed. Of course we live next to a bunch of retirees, one of whom sweeps his lawn. I am sure he is happy with us.</p>
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<p>Don’t you just LOVE boys?! Wouldn’t it be great to create a memory quilt of all the weapons they accumulated since childhood? It would cover a king sized bed!! </p>
<p>Seriously, I do love my boys, they are simple and sweet…most of the time. I love that it doesn’t take much to make them happy: if every meal has meat in it, you’re the best mom in the world. </p>
<p>uggggg, this is going to be hard :(</p>
<p>p.s.fogfog, he’s in Bingham, :)</p>
<p>OWM - Thank God I am not alone! Ds has a tall plastic hamper bucket full of various swords and scabbards and shields, lightsabers of all colors, some that provide “sound effects.” He used to make alot of these swords with my father, the woodworker. They would go down in his basement and tinker around coming up with new designs. He didn’t want to take them to school but he certainly needed them to be put into storage.</p>
<p>T-shirts - I believe the count is around 30 here. AND I have a stack of 30 or so which need to be put into storage for “sentimental reasons”??</p>
<p>Lots of mixed emotions on the board recently… and rightly so.</p>
<p>S1’s last day of work was yesterday, and he, Dad, an Uncle and a cousin who will be attending college with him, have all headed 7 hours north, to the tippy top of ME/Canadian border for a family reunion, through Sunday.</p>
<p>When he gets back, he will have two full weeks to finally decompress, hang with friends and family, fine tune his work outs, write a couple required essays and pack. I am not worried about him getting stuff done… yet. But I am starting to get a little sad about the imminent move-in day.</p>
<p>I loved the chatter on advice for a departing freshman …thank you for the wonderful words of wisdom!</p>
<p>When we were checking out of walmart, there was a bin of squirt guns near the registers. Dd1 grabbed two and threw them in the cart. Telling a friend about it when she got home, she was told not to forget nerf stuff in case her campus did Humans vs zombies. At the friends campus, it came up really fast and the local store was wiped out!</p>
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<p>My son has that, too!!! Sometimes when I get up in the morning after Son has been playing video games at night, the family room will be littered with weapons.</p>
<p>i have to laugh…my d has an enormous t shirt collection( easily over 100) and I am curious to see how many she attempts to bring with her to school! No weapons here though…unless you count her wand she got at our visit to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter…</p>
<p>I just made my younger two boys reduce their T-shirt collections to 21. Honestly I think I was more nostalgic about the ones that they chose to send to the goodwill than they were. 
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<p>College-bound-DS has about 14 T-shirts at camp (per their packing list) and another few at home that he’ll probably take to school. But that’s all he ever wears (never a long-sleeved shirt or anything) so that doesn’t seem too unreasonable, especially since he has a PE class and may need 2 t-shirts per day because of that. I am figuring on weekly laundry, but who knows what will really happen ;-)</p>
<p>Compared to some of the other boys, my DS has a fairly small weapon collection. One or two nerf dart guns and one sword. I think the dart guns are in the school pile. He did ruin one nerf gun trying to do a mod on it that he found on the internet.</p>
<p>My D has been a long distance runner doe 6 years. She runs a lot of weekend 5K’s and half marsthons in between track and cross country seasons. She has not gained a lot of weight in the 6 years, just gained a lot of height. She has LOTS of tshirts from the past 6 years that she still weaes because most races give free shirts with registration. </p>
<p>She sometimes changes several times if she runs in the morning and again in the evening. She needs most of those shirts, not sure how many will fit in her dorm room.</p>
<p>Well, we drive to school next Tuesday, overnight in a hotel, then move in on Wednesday. Just DS and I were home this afternoon and I tried to have my good-bye talk with him. It didn’t go well. He sighed, pretended to hunt for flies with the flyswatter and kept saying,“I already know that.” I did remind him, though, that move-in day may not be a big deal for him, but it is a transitional day for mom and dad and to please be patient with us. We will do our thing, say good-bye, and leave him alone. He listened respectfully to that and that was the end of our conversation. While there were no “magic moments”, I do feel that when next Wednesday comes I won’t feel like I failed to say what needed to be said. We can have fun, take care of business and move on.</p>
<p>Somehow we missed the entire nerf weapon revolution. Surprising, because I could easily see my DS and his friends having epic battles. </p>
<p>My DS has become a fashionisto (is that even a word?) in the past two years. Very conscious of clothing. He tends toward button downs and polos, and enjoys dressing up–he knows several tie knots and even knows how to tie a bow tie (which was mucho important to him that he not wear a clip-on for prom)! So it will be interesting to see whether he keeps up this style when he’s doing all the laundry! 
Not to say that he doesn’t have lots of t-shirts. Including several from thinkgeek. I have no idea what he will pack for college–guess I’ll find out soon!</p>
<p>I don’t think I can count high enough to count my D’s t-shirt collection. She has them from every Girl Scout event, camp, high school play, field hockey and softball camp. She also ‘collects’ them every time she sees a Broadway (or touring) production. She wears them to bed, and for sports practices, but never ‘out’.</p>
<p>If she makes the field hockey team, she said that the school will do ‘sports laundry’, which will greatly reduce the need for Febreeze in her room, especially since one of her roommates is going out for the cross country team. Teen aged girls sometimes smell worse than boys, especially when sweaty.</p>
<p>I couldn’t help but laugh about all the nerf weapons! My D is totally worried about her comfort and cleanliness. Her first reaction to the dorms at orientation was “Welcome to Jail…”…so today she started organizing her “stuff”…, a bedbug matteress cover, an eggcrate, a featherbead, a matteress cover, sheets, a duvet and a fluffy blanket…she is very worried about her comfort…Now she is debating her boot collection…she collects boots, all kinds…anything on sale at TJMaxx…tall…short…casual…dressy…yikes! Given she is going to be in an urban dorm room (i.e. TINY)…good luck to her! I have no idea how she is going to deal with group living…she went out and bought 3 tubs of lysol wipes, a dirt devil vacuum, an iron and ironing board…windex…fantastic…hand sanitizer, etc…</p>
<p>I just love the fact that other kids are worried about nerf guns and tee shirts…I love it!</p>