list for university

NellyLock

jr666 wrote:

I wouldnt take too much to begin with. There are usually things called shops in the city your going to.

You'll find that of all the things you bring 50% wont get used

Some of the things on these lists are rediculous as well...


2.Cling film AND Tin foil
3.Washing-up stuff (buy it when your there!)
why buy it when you get there when you can take it with you!? whats the difference???

6.A pad of lined paper - for making notes/doing drafts etc
7.Ream of printing paper
8.A4 folders
(all of 6,7 and 8 can be picked up FREE in freshers week. There are soooo many freebies to be had grab them all)
depends on uni...i know for certain i didnt get any of these so had to buy them...scrap that i got one pad but it was made from naff paper that ink goes through to the pages after...cheap full of adverts - through away

9.Bike!! (dont bother it WILL get knicked)
again depends on university and where you are staying! if you can take a cheap and nasty bike thats a better idea

16.Dressing gown & Slippers (dont even think about it, trust me)
eh?! again i would ignore this - slippers/flipflops usefull for walkin around landings/kitchen in grubby halls as well as for going outside in firedrills likewise for dressing gowns
17.Earplugs
personal preference...do you want to sleep or not!?
18.Small toolkit (just in case you need to repair...what, a hole in the roof?)
i took this and it was used by almost ALL of my friends once...not for a hole in the roof...for fixing bikes/putting nails in walls wd40 very usefull for fixing squeeky doors!, changing watch batteries etc etc

It seems clear that parents are doing the packing for their kids. Just read the messages here. Its full of mothers planning to send food parcels once a month, and packing their kids off with tool kits. Do they think their little darlings will be completely lost without them? Some parents need to learn to cut the apron strings (*cough* Savvy_Sue *cough*). This so called preparation for the real world is anything but, if kids are surviving off food aid and provided condoms by their parents.

i dont really see what the problem is -yes they can go to uni with next to nothing and go and spend even MORE money in the first few weeks buying stuff which could have easily been taken from home because spares were available - but whats the point in that...i know i took a lot more 'useful' stuff only cause my sister had just returned from uni so she helped me pack otherwise i think i would have been a bit stuffed for the first few weeks with additional spending on these items.
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savvy_sue pack as much as you like cause at the end of the day if you send them off with the stuff they need in the first place they are more likely to start independent and not need to return home etc...im not so sure i agree on the food parcel thing tho

neil

jr666

You can't compare flip flops with slippers. As you well know. Many people i know wear things called shoes that serve them quiet well when venturing outside their room. If you bring slippers and dressing gown dont forget your pipe and old leather armchair will you?

As for washing up liquid, by all means take it with you. When you get there you can place it next to the other 15 bottles that will all ready be there.

Toolkit- any thing that needs to be fixed should be reported to the residential services or landlord they can fix anything that need to be done free of charge (now thats money saving)

but its nice to see that you agree with my other comments neil.

To all "frantic" mothers, carry on packing for your darlings as i suspect you have done their whole lives. *sigh*

To the kids of these mothers, good luck living in this big wide world. I fancy your going to need it.

braken2000

just thought id put this in, everyone thinks those big strong bags are a good idea. They are and i picked up a big blue IKEA bag for 50p. I bought two, well worth is. IKEA have some good offers on, a wok for £6, you can cook anything in these.

gizmoleeds

braken2000 wrote:

IKEA have some good offers on, a wok for £6, you can cook anything in these.

I assume you've not seen the Phoenix Nights episode where Potter puts the illegal immigrants to work in the kitchen and they try stir-frying chips

NellyLock

jr666 wrote:

You can't compare flip flops with slippers. As you well know. Many people i know wear things called shoes that serve them quiet well when venturing outside their room. If you bring slippers and dressing gown dont forget your pipe and old leather armchair will you?

As for washing up liquid, by all means take it with you. When you get there you can place it next to the other 15 bottles that will all ready be there.

Toolkit- any thing that needs to be fixed should be reported to the residential services or landlord they can fix anything that need to be done free of charge (now thats money saving)

but its nice to see that you agree with my other comments neil.

To all "frantic" mothers, carry on packing for your darlings as i suspect you have done their whole lives. *sigh*

To the kids of these mothers, good luck living in this big wide world. I fancy your going to need it.

lol to the hint of sarcastic 'nice to see...comments' line,
15 bottles of washing up liquid sitting on the wall, 15 bottles of washing up liquid sitting on the wall but after just two weeks one of those bottles is gone and there will be 14 bottles of washing up liquid sitting on the wall...etc etc etc.

from what i remember smokin a pipe was considered quite trendy haha

and the tool kit comment rather contradicts the 'good luck living in this big wide world' when a screw needs tightening and you have to run to the porter/landlord

braken2000

i havnt no, you just have to do it right, which is buy the wok, then get the chips from the chippy!

ames123_2

My comment in bold. x

jr666 wrote:

You can't compare flip flops with slippers. As you well know. Many people i know wear things called shoes that serve them quiet well when venturing outside their room. If you bring slippers and dressing gown dont forget your pipe and old leather armchair will you?
Well I shall be taking slippers, I don't want muddy prints in my room. If I don't use them then as least I brought them in case.

As for washing up liquid, by all means take it with you. When you get there you can place it next to the other 15 bottles that will all ready be there.
Well it will all be used eventually!

Toolkit- any thing that needs to be fixed should be reported to the residential services or landlord they can fix anything that need to be done free of charge (now thats money saving)
Some may not be going into halls, so a toolkit would be useful.

but its nice to see that you agree with my other comments neil.

To all "frantic" mothers, carry on packing for your darlings as i suspect you have done their whole lives. *sigh*
You can't just go from living at home having stuff done for you to nothing! I think going to university is a big enough step to begin with!

To the kids of these mothers, good luck living in this big wide world. I fancy your going to need it.

Stu_Dent

jr666 wrote:

You can't compare flip flops with slippers. As you well know. Many people i know wear things called shoes that serve them quiet well when venturing outside their room. If you bring slippers and dressing gown dont forget your pipe and old leather armchair will you?

As for washing up liquid, by all means take it with you. When you get there you can place it next to the other 15 bottles that will all ready be there.

Toolkit- any thing that needs to be fixed should be reported to the residential services or landlord they can fix anything that need to be done free of charge (now thats money saving)

but its nice to see that you agree with my other comments neil.

To all "frantic" mothers, carry on packing for your darlings as i suspect you have done their whole lives. *sigh*

To the kids of these mothers, good luck living in this big wide world. I fancy your going to need it.

Im just about to go to uni, and yes my parents are helping with the packing but im paying for it all myself. If i had the chance i would get my parents to help, theres no harm in it and id rather have my parents around to help me than not, like in some of my mates cases where they dont even have the chance of their parents helping.

Bennifred

Thank you for saying that! Also, some of us parents LIKE helping out our kids - takes our minds off how much we're going to miss them! (Some of us are quite soppy about the whole thing :rolleyes: )

Savvy_Sue

Well, I've been away for the weekend, wondering quite how to respond (if at all) to jr666's comments. Because it was never me planning to make a four hour round trip at monthly intervals to do a supermarket trip: have enough trouble getting my own groceries in, thank you very much, but I would like to make sure that it's possible for my DH to have a cup of coffee as soon as he arrives before helping DS cart all his stuff into his room and then drive home again.

And as for doing the packing: for the record my sons have been doing their own packing for holidays etc for the last 10 years, but we all prefer the security of a list since the time one of them failed to pack any spare trousers! And as for the comment about dressing gowns and slippers, I would no more dream of insisting the younger boys take one (when their time comes) than I would dream of hiding the eldest's now. Because currently the eldest LIVES in his dressing gown until lunchtime, and the younger two don't possess such an item. And did no-one else see the comment from a student about how useful a dressing gown or similar garment was when the fire alarm goes off at 2 am?

Also I don't think the hall maintenance staff are going to be that interested in twiddling about with my son's computers. So the screwdriver at least is staying in: it measures 2" x 1".

Like Bennifred, I'm doing all this is a kind of displacement activity. And my son can see the point of bits of it: he wouldn't care if I didn't do any of it, but agrees that if he needs stuff that I can give him, it will save him money. He's finally checking where his accommodation is - he's sure some has been allocated but hasn't so far bothered to find out what and where, and agrees it won't be funny if he hasn't actually got anywhere to go in 3 weeks time!

And HE agrees that he needs a cheese slicer like mine before he leaves home. And no, he can't take mine! I need it!

BTW, my DH was at uni with a chap who used to POST his dirty washing home every week, and get the clean stuff posted back to him! If anyone wants to be really supportive of their offspring ...