<p>My oldest never had a roommate ( except senior yr- but it was a two bedroom)
certainly didn’t have it decorated in anyway.
Younger D has more interest- she bought all her stuff from Ikea that she didn’t bring from home & she was quite proud that she put it together by herself!</p>
<p>I am looking for bedding for 2 extra long twin beds. Anyone know of a good place that sells nice bedding for them? I don’t want cheap college dorm bedding. I need bedskirts that fit these beds also.</p>
<p>TacomaJoe – The Company Store has nice stuff in the right length. Looks like they may be having a sale, too!</p>
<p>[XL</a> Twin](<a href=“http://www.thecompanystore.com/XL-Twin/sheets-xl-twin,default,sc.html]XL”>http://www.thecompanystore.com/XL-Twin/sheets-xl-twin,default,sc.html)</p>
<p>I LOVE the dorm decorating contest photos. Those students put a lot of effort into their room designs. Really love the wall words in the 2009 contest winners’ room.</p>
<p>Thank you Novelisto! Just what I was looking for!</p>
<p>LandsEnd.com also has high thread count xl twin sheets. JCPenney.com probably has the widest variety of xl twin sheets year round.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t buy a lot of nice stuff for boys. S1 threw his bedding away at the end of freshman yr. It was that grungy. I guess girls would be way more into things matching,etc. I bought my boys’ stuff at BBB. Neither of them had any interest in picking things out. They just told me to buy whatever I thought they needed. </p>
<p>Also, my kids only stayed in the dorm one year. After freshman year they moved off campus and all that xl twin bedding was useless. At big state u’s there is a mass dorm exodus by soph/ junior year (at least in our state).</p>
<p>Custom bedding for dorm rooms? Must be for the well off!
Difficult enough to pay our EFC for 10 months out of the year. </p>
<p>Rising food prices? Rising gas prices? Hold onto your money. Nothing wrong with Bed Bath Beyond and those 20% off coupons! LOL… :)</p>
<p>Tacomajoe, try to resist buying too much. Those xlong twin beds are sometimes x narrow and thin too. The xlong twin cotton sheets were MUCH too large for my son’s college dorm bed. He used regular jersey knit sheets (if you really don’t want to economize by shopping at Target, then they carry these for twice the price at places like LLBean).</p>
<p>I would also suggest that you NOT spend a fortune on things like sheets. They are not going to get the same “TLC” (i.e. washing) that the linens in your home get. We got our kids new sheets every year…at Target or a similar place. And we just tossed the old ones into the dumpster…ditto the towels. After one year of use, they were…well…not something that needed to be moved back here! And our kids actually DID their laundry. Some kids don’t.</p>
<p>The advice I received from parents of a college sophomore son: Buy the cheapest bedding that will fit the bill and toss it at the end of the school year.</p>
<p>My kids did their shopping the way thumper’s did. In our day, their parents did, too. And we STILL have some of the bedding and towels my wife brought with her from home to college. (We don’t use it a whole lot . . . it’s deep back-up.)</p>
<p>We sent my son tension rods and curtains, and he refused to touch them. He wouldn’t even open the package. On instructions from my wife, I had to put the things up while I was visiting him a few months later.</p>
<p>I would say, if you have a daughter, go for it. If you have a son, don’t bother. If you just want to buy quality sheets so he will be comfortable, ok. But as to matching decor, he might actually have to endure ribbing from the other guys if his room is too “cute.”</p>
<p>Some kids do have sensory issues that make sleeping on less than high-quality sheets torture. For my D, lower thread-count percale makes her itchy…as we found out when she was young and wanted Disney printed sheets. Good-bye, Belle bed! And any polyester in there turns a bed into a sweat-box! So we spend a little more to ensure a good night’s sleep. I can’t imagine getting your rest is any less important in college than in the 1st grade.</p>
<p>^^^My daughter has this issue also. She has eczema and must have high-quality, 100% cotton sheets. I will be ordering her sheets from The Company Store.</p>
<p>My boys have XL twin beds at home because they are tall. The bedding is really hard to find around here. For older sons college dorm, I found a nice set at Costco, very reasonable price and it wasn’t poor quality. Bought XL twin bedding for son at home from Target and it was so bad, I need to replace it. I’d suggest staying away from Target for any bedding. </p>
<p>My son took his featherbed to school. He appreciates a good comfortable sleep. Yes, boys don’t care about decor, but like some soft half way decent bedding.</p>
<p>^^^agree. Featherbed, eggcrate pad, etc all help. Non scratchy sheets, ditto (on that subject, beware of the sets that may be offered through a mailing from your school). </p>
<p>Hoard your 20% off coupons for BB&B. You can order at home and pick up and pay at school.</p>
<p>My kids were along the Thumper and JHS lines. My D was not interested in matchy matchy; she brought what she liked and what was cheap. Roomie was the pink and purple type and D is decidedly NOT.</p>
<p>My older daughter and her roommate tried shopping through the internet together and couldn’t agree on any bedding, so they compromised on complimenting colors. </p>
<p>Younger daughter was in a triple, and just bought what she liked. On moving in day, I overheard a lot of laughter (not always pleasant) about the girls who HAD chosen matching stuff. By coincidence, she ended up rooming sophomore year with someone who had identical bedding, but the friend opted to show the reverse side of the quilt so they wouldn’t match. This year she’s in a single as an RA.</p>
<p>Next year she’s in an apartment with four other women in her grad class. Small, intense major so they will all be in the same classes 8-6 every day; decided living together means they don’t have to be jealous of the free time other students get to enjoy. They will be using card tables and camp chairs and my kid’s garage sale futon for the common areas of the apartment and no one will care what the place looks like as they know it’s temporary and means to an end.</p>
<p>I think looking back and laughing over how they roughed it will be more fun than others who had it perfect.</p>
<p>D1 is high-maintenance. SHe got a down comforter for graduation and then she got sheets and a duvet from PBteen. I bought the first set, but she thinks she needs new ones each year to match the new roommate(s). So now she buys them for herself. She lived the first year in a dorm and then the last 2 in a sorority house. For S2 he had absolutely no interest. I ended up buying him a duvet on sale from PBTeen and then Quiksilver twin XL sheets on sale at TJMaxx.</p>
<p>Saw the title of this thread, and I can’t believe that anybody would actually do this. But there are a lot of posts in this thread, so I guess I’m just plain wrong! </p>
<p>I’m not going to read the thread, because over the coming months, I’ll probably be asking for advice in college selection. And all I’ll be able to think about is “yes, but that guy buys customer dorm bedding and decor …” :)</p>