<p>“Our son’s interest in shower caddies and towels started to wane after about an hour but he was able to fill his cart with most of the essentials. Successful day!”</p>
<p>That does sound successful. So would you pass on your shopping list? I don’t think kid #1 brought anything to college with him except his clothes, some sheets and towels, and toiletries. If you were able to fill a cart, I think I’m missing plenty of essentials from that list!</p>
<p>busdriver11 - my son’s high school handed out a 4 page list of things that kids might want to bring to college. It runs the gamut from desk supplies to laundry and cleaning supplies (ha!) to personal hygeine items. Let me know if you are interested and I’ll see if I can send you a copy.</p>
<p>From Bucknell’s site of what to bring, etc:</p>
<p>[What</a> to Bring and What to Leave Home || Housing & Residential Life || Bucknell University](<a href=“http://www.bucknell.edu/x4918.xml]What”>http://www.bucknell.edu/x4918.xml)</p>
<p>Bucknell’s Housing FB page:</p>
<p>[Bucknell</a> University Housing Services - University - Lewisburg, PA | Facebook](<a href=“Facebook”>Bucknell University Housing Services)</p>
<p>I checked the rental rates for a fridge. I think it was about $145. I’m assuming this is for a year.</p>
<p>We bought a 3.2 cu. ft. fridge (Igloo) from Walmart.com for $99. It included free shipping. It looks great and is very quiet. Also bought a microwave for less than $50. Desk lamps were available for around $10. B/c I ordered these with the fridge, shipping was free.</p>
<p>Thanks 911C2S, the Bucknell checklist was the one our son followed when we went to BBB this weekend. He still needs to pick up a window fan and screen since he is in a dorm with no AC. I think he is coordinating with his roommates about a fridge or microwave. I did pick up a DustBuster as an impulse purchase - I’m not sure he’ll know what to do with it but I had one in college and remember using it quite a bit!</p>
<p>Just found this on BBB’s site:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/schoolInfo/10165.pdf[/url]”>http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/schoolInfo/10165.pdf</a></p>
<p>“my son’s high school handed out a 4 page list of things that kids might want to bring to college. It runs the gamut from desk supplies to laundry and cleaning supplies (ha!) to personal hygeine items. Let me know if you are interested and I’ll see if I can send you a copy”</p>
<p>Thanks for the offer, but you don’t have to do that, looks like there are plenty of links here to get us started. And that cracks me up, cleaning supplies, now THAT is a good one! Lots of great information on here, I will look at this all closely.</p>
<p>Somebody had mentioned this for BBB, that you could just go to your local one and pick things out, and pick them up at their BBB at college? It looks like there is one very close from that link. Man, I don’t know if I can even bear to think about this yet. There are so many other things to do right now, I just want to push that away until later! Maybe we can have him pick out the stuff now, we can stay an extra day after orientation and go pick the items up while the kids are doing their thing and having fun. We also wanted to get a cheap bike that would be unappealing for someone to steal. We got S1 a decent bike at his college, and within 2 days it was stolen:(</p>
<p>^busdriver11, your son may want to check out BisonBike which is a free bike-sharing program available to all BU undergrads. Looks like they can reserve bikes for a week at a time through the myBucknell website. You can access the info under the Campus tab and then hit the tab for Travel. Might be a good option before shelling out more money for a new bike!</p>
<p>I’m not sure where the nearest BBB is. There isn’t one in Lewisburg. I think there is one in Selinsgrove. Selinsgrove is about a 15-20 minute drive away. It has many more stores than Lewisburg. There is a mall. Another shopping center has a Target, Kohls, etc. </p>
<p>And busdriver11–did you not read about the used book market? It certainly has a big impact on the price of new books. And not all new additions have only minor changes. Certain subjects must keep up with major and minor changes in their field. </p>
<p>My kids also never had to read their HS text books. I always hated that because I knew in most cases it was the opposite in college. If a student does not need or use a required book in college, s/he should certainly question the professor and even speak with the department chair.</p>
<p>We will check out BisonBike, that sounds like a great deal. Free always works for me!</p>
<p>And morrismm, I definitely don’t blame the text book writers for the cost of the books. I really blame professors who make the kids buy expensive, latest edition books and then don’t use them. I don’t know if my kids would be forward enough to speak to the department chair, but I’m hoping this doesn’t happen at Bucknell. Really hasn’t happened at older son’s school (CMU)l, but happened all through high school and when he went to a summer program at Harvard. And after all that tuition, who has money left to burn?</p>
<p>When does the Bucknell University Supplemental essay come out?</p>