<p>Electric drill…hmm…I see the potential for real destructive tendencies to come out…he did ask for a saw as well as the box cutter. Hopefully they don’t have some sort of “zero tolerance” for these t hings like they did in HS. The camera is another doubt. CMU CFA suggests that each student have a digital girlfriend. His GF had hers stolen within a week because she was in and out of the studio and left it on a table. And she is quite careful and had to face the fact that fellow art student probably lifted it. … I have a rather expensive, but very good digital that S uses and it also does video, but he is not the most careful of kids so not too keen on sending that.</p>
<p>I have those worries about the scatter brained ADHD daughter – she wants to take her expensive digital camera with her to school. She’ll have her laptop and iPod as well. Oh well, she’ll have to face the consequences if she doesn’t keep her stuff locked up. I have worries she’ll even remember to lock her door. sigh.</p>
<p>Art supplies too… I wonder how much gets ‘borrowed’ and not returned. </p>
<p>But it will be her problem.</p>
<p>famm said “CMU CFA suggests that each student have a digital girlfriend.” </p>
<p>I got a good smile out of that. The suggestion about cutting instruments was great. All she had packed was a cheap pair of crappy scissors. You get used to having all that stuff at home, and don’t think about what you’re going to do when you have to cut a piece of cardboard or foamcore for a 3D project. Looks like another trip to WalMart. And I swore I was done buying stuff. We dug out a craft bin she had from years ago and never used and it was perfect for the tools we do have packed.</p>
<p>I now it is a wrong thing to add at the moment but this here what you can not cut them if you don’t have it…
nail-clipper, possibly double duty toe nail one.
every time my kid gone away, I had to buy new one and stuck it in the toiletry kit.
in Japan, we say if you got hard life, your hair grows fast. If you got easy life, your nails grow quick.
You won’t think about it for taking trip less than a week but sure he needed to trim them every often ( and for his guitar thing)
Back from the summer job for now, lost one already. I have to get another one for leaving again in a week.</p>
<p>redbug…talk about the Freudian slip…I wrote digital girlfriend? How funny! He will need a digital camera (will give him my very, very old one) which he may lose but is unlikely to lose the digital (long distance) girlfriend. I think S is very serious about the girl, if not the camera…</p>
<p>As for packing, we now have a pile of stuff in basement ready to load…Not too overwhelming but the little lists on the refrigerator of what is still missing are getting longer…nail clippers were added a few days ago (thank you BandD). S is peeved that I sewed labels on the old, donated towels…I had these old name tags that he had to have during his brief period at an international school abroad. They are the same ones required by UK prep schools so very high quality and seemed wasteful to not use them…I only put tags on towels because YOU KNOW he is going to leave them in the shared bathroom for 20 boys and if it has his name tag somebody will throw it at him and say “here is your disgusting towel…meathead”…Without tag it just becomes communal property until too disgusting to be claimed by anyone. Anyway, I told him it was therapeutic for empty nest syndrome to sew a few name tags on items…he felt that sharpie written initials was more than sufficient and the Eton-esque name tags look dorky even on cheapo used towels from Target. Opinions?</p>
<p>Right now D has made a list of everything she’s bringing, and circulating it via email to her other 3 roommates. She has indicated what she feels can be community property (dishes, silverware), what is “you can borrow but ask first” (her skulls, most books), and those things which are hands off (the old melamine bowl we’ve had for 20 years, some childhood books). Told her she needed to put her name in ink in the back of the book so she knows they’re hers, especially if someone else has the same stuff. She said she’s going to, but it hasn’t happened yet. Don’t need name tags on anything, only 4 of them sharing an apt and a bathroom.</p>
<p>Well I wish S’s roommate would circulate a list indicating hands off on all of the games he is planning to take with him…S ran into a mutual friend working behind the counter at the discount clothing store…he said that the roommate had called all friends with borrowed video games and asked for them back so he can take to CMU. I look at the room layout and wonder where, o where, could a monitor fit where more than one person could actually see it… Certainly my S is not taking a game console or a tv/big monitor but there are always those pesky computer video games.</p>
<p>My other D told me today that she is not bringing her vast collection of old movies with her (she loves Gene Kelly) and is also not going to load SIMS into her new laptop. </p>
<p>Whew. That is one big time-wasting worry to not worry about.</p>
<p>Since my last post, I was told by my girlfriend if you are half decent female, you’d never go anywhere; trip short or long without nail care pouch which consists scissors ( say no to clipper) to trim nails and cut cuticles, sandpaper popsicle stick things, foundation painting thing, touch up painting thing, removing painting thing with cotton thing to remove with.
gawk, I was never the one nor lived with one.
I am glad at least it helped famkid.
Owww Eton tags. Another country, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Chariots of fire, Prince William and Harry, Harry Potter (well)… love the thought of money counting brain mum hand sewing those tags, fussing about like Mrs.Weasley…</p>
<p>I re-read MCAD list, nail clipper/file (that popsicle sticks?) were listed in redbug’s post.</p>
<p>CLEAR pushpins… always a staple in my kit.</p>
<p>oh yes. I remember they were in pre college list and insisted to have Moore brand. I cheated and bought $3 or so cheaper generic ones per pack.
They were OK for the occasion but my kid learned at his museum job why must be Moore’s. grade of pin is better, mounting into plastic head is more durable, the head shape is slightly prettier and sharper ( so not to interfere with artworks that would be pinning on.
It’s just pins. But will save headache in the long run if you buy the best quality possible - difference was 3 dollars, which is big for a pack of pins.
I would go for better packing tapes 50 cents more, so it won’t shred every time trying taping long stretch but those cheapo pins are still doing OK after three years.</p>
<p>PS
pins were for crits and shows using certain walls that could be pin holed. not to be used on bare dorm walls and such, maybe that’s why they are not in the list but poster putties.</p>
<p>Am trying to talk D into leaving her VHS and all her Disney movies at home. Not even sure the TV will fit in the van. One of the roomies said she was bring hers, but apparently the mom put the kibash on bringing a brand new flat screen to college. We’ll see if we can get D’s old one in with all her other stuff. Told her they’re not going to have time to watch old Disney movies anyway, and she’s almost agreed.</p>
<p>splurge on beauty and the beast, Cinderella, little mermaid and sleeping beauty on DVD you can stick in laptop, in that order as her budget allows. you will be happy you did.</p>
<p>Bad news…many Disney animations have only limited releases and can’t be purchased until a new release comes out (about every 5 year cycle)…Lion King is not even available on netflix or at blockbusters (too valuable to rent out). Convert the VHS tapes to DVD…and put on the computer. What is the point of growing up and moving out if you can’t take Pinocchio, Bambi or Dumbo with you?</p>
<p>thanks for tip about pins…very smart…very wise…</p>
<p>Ouch, sorry I had no idea since somehow I could get them from maniac friend or any kiddie library easy.
so they are at it again… remember those days the only way you get to see Snowwhite was in the theater once in the blue-moon even after all other videos were in rage?
Oh how long we had to wait for sleeping beauty video release, beaten up Lady and the Tramp costed 75 bucks at small town South Carolina tag sale and we were seriously considering…
the Evil empire.</p>
<p>PS
^Is that your picks in that order? you are so very fammom.</p>
<p>Why does Disney do that? If they were constantly for sale, they would be constantly bought! I spent $35 a couple of years ago buying a Lion King DVD on ebay that was “sort of new” or something like that. Disney could have had my money instead of the reseller. </p>
<p>It was a good quality DVD anyway and D1 was very happy.</p>
<p>^ Because the company is now run by Icky Louse instead of Mickey Mouse.
So, good old greenwitch, what are your best picks?</p>