<p>My residence hall has this rule where we can't put anything up that will damage the wall in any way, like screws or permanent adhesives. </p>
<p>I bought a small 1.5' x 1' mirror and I have a poster from home but i'm not sure how to put those two things up without doing anything to the wall.</p>
<p>Any ideas? I might also need a dry erase board for the door but again, i'm not sure how these things are put up on the walls. What do most college students use?</p>
<p>For posters, I used some sort of poster tape that has tapes so it pulls cleanly off walls. The brand is Command, and I think I got it at OfficeMax.</p>
<p>One of my dry erase boards is sort of papery and sticks to the walls itself, and the other is magnetic. Otherwise, I’d try for strong poster tape, but maybe someone else has a better idea for that. We were going to put up a mirror but had trouble. Our best idea was to get hooks for it for over the door.</p>
<p>LOL, have you not seen command strips? they leave no damage on the walls, and remove cleanly. Also, some poster tack might be good.</p>
<p>Painter’s tape is great if you just need to stick something on the wall.</p>
<p>Use those little sticky-backed hooks by 3M (I think they are called Command). I actually used them to put up curtain rods, so a valance could be used.</p>
<p>Yeah, the 3m stuff is basically the standard now for sticking stuff to walls. It has a little tab you can pull that will cleanly release it when its time to take stuff down. I too think it is called “Command.”</p>
<p>Awesome, I think I found there website thanks guys. =]</p>
<p>Also to icedragon, I think this is the first time i’m hearing about command strips at all.</p>
<p>blue painters tape works perfectly for posters and mini basketball hoops or just about anything else. I use it for everything</p>
<p>really? i saw some in walmart that were in big packs for a good price… i think it was in the back to school section.</p>
<p>I’ll check out the blue painters tape, actually there is probably a few left in my house I could borrow from my parents.</p>
<p>^ Also thanks for the tip icedragon, I honestly haven’t seen it in stores but i’ll run by Wal-Mart this week and take a good look. It’ll be really convenient if I find the command strips there and don’t have to look through several shops.</p>
<p>Ok - laughing… heres a coupon for command strips…</p>
<p>[Command</a> Strips Holds on Strongly, Comes off Cleanly!](<a href=“http://www.3m.com/us/home_leisure/command/commandcoupon/?WT.mc_id=www.commandcoupon.com&WT.ctod=12:23]Command”>http://www.3m.com/us/home_leisure/command/commandcoupon/?WT.mc_id=www.commandcoupon.com&WT.ctod=12:23)</p>
<p>I prefer packaging tape to painters tape. I put up most of my things with clear packaging tape or Command things, like the double-sided foam mounting squares. I used the squares to hold up my bigger white board, and it didn’t fall once the whole year. Nothing fell off the wall using packaging tape, and it didn’t damage the wall. I wouldn’t use it with posters if you don’t want to rip your posters when you have to take them down (for posters I used those tacky things for posters, which again work really well), but it works well for most other things.</p>
<p>Are you allowed to use like thumbtacks? My brother hung everything up in his dorm using thumbtacks.</p>
<p>^ Not sure, I imagine if the thumbtacks don’t leave something noticeable or huge in the wall I could probably get away with it.</p>
<p>I’ll also follow up on the packaging tape recommendation, I could probably utilize it with the wall decorations.</p>
<p>White toothpaste is God in a college dorm. I used to put hoards of holes in my wall from screws and tacks, a bit of white toothpaste in the hole, smooth it out, and you can’t tell.</p>
<p>i work in a office supply store so everyone has been shopping for college supplies and from what i heard from the customers double stick tape pulls the paint off the walls so dont use it and that the poster putty stuff doesnt work. the command stuff works pretty well</p>
<p>There is this poster tape stuff that is a relatively coarse mesh (maybe 1-1.5 mm diameter holes) that is soaked in a resin or epoxy polymer. I use it at home, the stuff is great! Peels off the walls completely clean but my posters have been hanging from my walls and ceiling for 3 years without ever falling down.</p>
<p>btw the command poster strips are on sale at staples for 2 dollars a package :)</p>
<p>Scotch Tape. Enough said. Cheap and it works.</p>