Stocking up a college bag

hazyjo · 14 July 2019 at 7:24PM

Personalised water bottle from the Love Island app if she watches it. My friend just got one lol. Bit cringe, but so many watch it (sadly, I'm ashamed to admit - me too LOL). (And no, it wasn't me who bought the bottle lol :laugh:)
https://loveislandshop.co.uk/products/bottle

elsien · 14 July 2019 at 7:32PM

Alan2020 wrote: »

macbook air
iPad
iPhone

Really? The OP was mentioning power banks and hair bobbles. Not many hundreds of pounds worth of gadgets.
Unless you want to adopt me - my phone is about to give up the ghost.

DigForVictory · 14 July 2019 at 8:00PM

Travel pass/ticket holder/travel wallet?

Having the essential stuff in one easy to identify by sight (& touch? these things can slide to the bottom of bags!) can be really helpful.

The bag is a lovely generous idea & I'm sure she'll be delighted!

Primrose · 15 July 2019 at 11:05AM

When a young relative of ours went off to university many years ago I gave him a wrapped package to be opened once he was on his own. I included envelopes marked up:

"For the conversationally challenged" (a phone card with money on it. This was the days before mobile phones were in regular use)
"For the alcoholically challenged" (hangover cures)
"For the nutritionally challenged". (Supermarket vouchers)
"For the financially challenged". (paper money)
"For the horizontally challenged". (Condoms!)

His Mum would have had a fit at the last item but it was also a hidden message that it was OK to talk to us about difficult topics. He loved it.
Am sure you can come up with some ideas relevant to your daughter's own personality.

ska_lover · 15 July 2019 at 11:21AM

Unless I am reading this wrong, its for a young lady who will be travelling out of the area, commuting, but living at home

this is what i would get
1- rail card / bus pass
2- panic alarm
3 - mobile phone - i am sure she will already have one of these though

nothing else

LandyAndy · 16 July 2019 at 8:36AM

Alan2020 wrote: »

macbook air
iPad
iPhone

elsien wrote: »

Really? The OP was mentioning power banks and hair bobbles. Not many hundreds of pounds worth of gadgets.
Unless you want to adopt me - my phone is about to give up the ghost.

No, not really. *rollseyes*

sazaccount · 16 July 2019 at 11:59PM

Not so much MSE but possibly a trip to paperchase...
A new notebook, A4 with lines and holes so it can be filled into a folder, a folder, a new pen, an academic diary, a collapsible coffee cup (if she drinks hot drinks) lunch box/reusable knife fork spoon, double walled water bottle (keeps water cold or can be used for hot drinks as well), painkillers eg paracetamol, travel ticket wallet, back up battery and spare charging cable, if your daughter wears makeup a small makeup bag with hair ties, comb or brush, spare headphones (nothing worse than forgetting your headphones or a pair breaking and you have to travel) Emergency money kept in the makeup bag or in a small pocket encase she looses her purse/travel card to be able to get home.

CardinalWolsey · 18 July 2019 at 4:48PM

A trolley to put her new bag on as its going to weigh a tonne once its been filled with all of the above

Spendless · 18 July 2019 at 5:51PM

Thanks for all the suggestions, plenty to go on and things I hadn't considered.

Yes, she's living at home and commuting (equiv of sixth form)

Some ideas, we already own, such as the metal water bottles, so in the interest of money saving I wasn't going to purchase new (yet, anyway - maybe a good one for Christmas) and I am mindful of what someone said, she'll want to put her own items in also. Others such as the academic diary/planner I'd already picked up.

I recently bought a really handy organiser from Home Bargains that has separate compartments for small bits that fits into it's own pouch for £1.99:money: and this is what I will fill with some of the ideas from here.

sazaccount · 18 July 2019 at 7:22PM

CardinalWolsey wrote: »

A trolley to put her new bag on as its going to weigh a tonne once its been filled with all of the above

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: although during dissertation time at uni I used to use a hand luggage size suitcase to cart my books, papers and laptop around (my 2006 laptop weighted a ton!)

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