setting up a first time student

nearlyrich

There have been a few of these threads over the years, my niece has been up to raid what's left of the back from uni box recently...all new and shiny is lovely but reality says take stuff you are not emotionally attached to as you will lose stuff. having said that Home and Bargain, Poundstrecher and supermarkets have made stuff pretty cheap these days

Poppy9

I've been putting together for DD who is hopefully going Uni next month.

She upgraded to double bed at home a while ago so she will take all the single bedding we currently which include duvet, mattress protector, sheets, duvet cover.

I have bought:

• New single duvet cover
• Pop up laundry basket
• Fleece blanket
• Cutlery
• Clothes airer
• Bowl
• Microfibre cleaning cloth
• Instant coffee/whitner/sugar packets

She can take my old sauce/frying pans plus a pyrex jug. I have lots of spare plates/cups and glasses.

Need to get a good bag for weekends home (hopefully:D)

Then there is stationery, food and toiletries.

Ms_Chocaholic

Let's hope the cleaning cloth get's used

cheesemelts

omg the hair straighteners. thats what students do and I remember hearing my daughter say it. Anyhow in hotel with no iron and got out the straighteners, it works. Thank goodness for students..........:rotfl:

rozmister wrote: »

ROFL I didn't own an iron until I moved in with my boyfriend in my third year, six years after I left home. The concept of ironing my clothes with an actual iron was lost on me, if there was a crease in the bottom of a top/dress I used hair straighteners. The rest of the time I wore slightly wrinkled clothes.

A clothes airer is a pretty useful item. I remember buying one of those from Wilkinsons in my first year and using it lots.

Poppy9

Ms_Chocaholic wrote: »

Let's hope the cleaning cloth get's used

She is a bit OCD so the basin she hopefully has in her room will get a wipe down - I hope!!!:rotfl:

It's the remembering to change her bed I worry about!!

rozmister

Poppy9 wrote: »

She is a bit OCD so the basin she hopefully has in her room will get a wipe down - I hope!!!:rotfl:

It's the remembering to change her bed I worry about!!

I met quite a few boys (friends and a couple of boyfriends) while at uni who openly admitted to only changing their bed ONCE A TERM :shocked: and that was at the end of the term to take the sheets home to their mam. As a once a week girl I found this absolutely grim!!

sarah861421

Some brilliant suggestions and thoughts on here so far. Thankyou to everyone who has contributed so far

Noonar

eeekkk tomorrows D day - then I will know if my daughter actually needs all the stuff residing under her bed!!!!!

Ms_Chocaholic

Just to add ... you can also get those gift cards from Sainsbury's, bean cards I think they're called. You keep one half to top up and the student keeps the other half (to use).

Poppy9

Noonar wrote: »

eeekkk tomorrows D day - then I will know if my daughter actually needs all the stuff residing under her bed!!!!!

Stress levels very high here as DD has no insurance as all uni's require the same for the course she wants to do!