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Shopping for a Daughter's College Dorm . . . OMG!!
Comments (86)Thank you all so much for taking the time to give me/us these suggestions! Emily & I have been sitting here this morning, rereading every one of your posts and adding things to our ongoing lists to do, to take and to buy. They have helped so much. You've helped us both by suggesting things we hadn't thought of and you've also saved me money, because I'm not having to ship off things DD will need but we'd forgotten. And yes, I do realize that there will be local stores that she can shop at for forgotten items, but as I mentioned here before, we've been there and done this with DS nine years ago. Let me mention it again for any other new freshman parents: the local stores in the area will be a nightmare to shop at that move-in day and for at least the next week afterwards! Most needed items will be quickly sold out and the check-out lines will be staggeringly long with stressed out, frazzled parents and students. Been there, will NOT be doing that one again this time! Lisa: thank you for that suggestion! I'd hadn't yet thought of her immunization records, but have just added this to our list. Suero: thanks for that link. I've made a list of things we need to check with housing about. Lazy: yes, the school does provide bed, mattress, desk, chair, etc. I'm with you on the stores and madhouse there will be at them that first day/week ;^D Gotta run errands with DD once again. Will be back later to check on this thread once more. Lynn...See MoreNeed Help Ficus Bonsai in dorm and winter is coming
Comments (1)Generally speaking, humidity trays are poor sources of humidity/moisture, but what you CAN do is build a humidity tray with higher sides. Find a container your plant fits inside of easily, the sides of which aren't going to block light from foliage. Fill it with gravel or terra cotta pellets, then bring the water level even to the top of the balls. You might even incorporate some objects you can set the pot on so there is no way the water in the humidity tray can 'find' a pathway into the soil. Flat humidity trays don't cut it, but if all you have is a single plant, what I described will work very well. Clean the rocks and tray weekly with a bleach stir and rinse to prevent a lot of fungulugly activity in the tray over time. Good luck - the high sides that don't block light to the leaves are the trick, so a bigger tray is a better tray. Al...See MoreNeed help repainting walls and replacing doors in my dorm
Comments (4)Sorry, but you may have trouble easily replacing those doors. While you will be able to find those nominal sizes, you won't be able to just pop them in. The hinge positions and/or the doorknob positions are unlikely to align with existing positions on the jamb, and the door edge by the lock may need to be planed at the proper angle for door closure. Unless you are handy with routers, chisels, and planes, you will have to hire somebody to fit the doors. As for the walls, you can buy spray texturing in a can and try to trowel it to achieve the approximate look, but you will likely have trouble making it match so that it isn't an obvious patch. It may be cheaper to get fined than what you have in mind. And I'd love to hear how all that damage occurred...or maybe not :-)...See MoreParents: Did you decorate your kid's dorm room?
Comments (85)Oh, good grief! Anything can be taken out of context and to the worst degree! I’ve purposely avoided this thread after I initially posted, as some posters made it sound like any parent who helped decorate this kid’s dorm room was crushing that child’s own creativity “Mommy-Dearest-like”. In retrospect, I’m sure there are parents like that. And, yes, some of those initially featured pics of rooms are so incredibly unpractical. BUT, there are so many more, like us, where daughters have grown up learning from mothers who are very good at decorating, and they are absorbing and enjoying it, too. They have their own likes and dislikes, which are encouraged and respected. BUT, they still need and want help with storage issues in those minuscule shared dorm rooms, lighting ideas, and a lot of other ideas to consider. It irritates the heck out out of me that some immediately paint the worst scenario when someone (Me) says, yes I did help my daughter decorate her dorm room. No, it was not some impractical designer room. No, it did not make her friends there hate her or her room. But, yes, it was overseen by DD and her roommate with the colors and art they wanted and chose. We mothers did, though, know what and where to find the storage and lighting that would facilitate the very best use of that minimal space. And, we did it at our daughters’ and with our daughters’ blessings. In closing, there are probably as many normal, happy mom-daughter collaborations as there are non/collaborations. Maybe I’m in the minority, having had a great, fun relationship with my own daughter her entire life. I consider it a blessing, but one that takes work. My own daughter has learned and absorbed so much interior design creativity from me over the years. She could easily make it her career if she chose. And, we love trading ideas still. But, even at age five, I allowed her to make the final design decisions with her own personal spaces. Not all decorator mothers are “Mommy Dearest monsters”....See MoreBonnie
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