Buy 12 glue stick, 45 crayons, 6 reames of paper

[knight1fox3]

A safe? Top drawer, under the socks.

Fixt. :thumbs:

 

[P-E]

Although I have found it funny and annoying that colleges send a “list” of stuff entering freshman need also - and maybe we can all related but at an engineering only college - OCD personality freshman - doesn’t understand when I tell him he doesn’t need a few things in this list (or they are not critical) they just want the list “checked off”

Some things I found funny on the list:

Iron / ironing board
Safe
Small vacuum cleaner?
Microwave
.......

I mean the kid couldn’t find the vacuum cleaner in our house if I asked him to find it - but he wants to buy one for a dorm room that probably won’t get cleaned until May 2019....

 

[tj_PE]

I was glad we got our roommate assignments ahead of time at both schools I went to.  We conference called in advance so we didn't bring duplicate ****.

same. and i had the best fit for a roommate, ever! 

 

[tj_PE]

also, do not remember ever vacuuming my dorm room :dunno:  

 

[knight1fox3]

also, do not remember ever vacuuming my dorm room :dunno:  

Same here. When April/May came around, that was for facilities maintenance to worry about. LOL

 

[Road Guy]

They also stress renters insurance!



But the kid is freaked out we didn’t get everything on “the list” lol - I just told him to call grandma if he felt like he needed anything else once he gets there - I’ll be busy converting his bedroom to Airbnb

 

[tj_PE]

They also stress renters insurance!



But the kid is freaked out we didn’t get everything on “the list” lol - I just told him to call grandma if he felt like he needed anything else once he gets there - I’ll be busy converting his bedroom to Airbnb

renters for dorms? I never had renters in the dorm, but def when I got my apartment.

 

[Road Guy]

Everyone is latching on to make $$$ of this process... it’s like being at the county fair Ik terms of being nickeled and dimed...

Everything from renters insurance to people that want to sell you a dorm packet of sheets towels, bed linings and such.

No **** we even got a letter from people who will send custom care packages to your kid while in college - $25- “home made cookies” thanksgiving package $200. Etc.

The people are even greedier than the governments running the damn colleges...

 

[P-E]

A guy in the office is being forced to buy renters insurance to sign a lease.  I didn't think that was legal in a lease.  I'd never force my tenants to purchase insurance. 

 

[Supe]

It is legal in a lease, and I find it to be more common than not, more so for liability than any property damages.

 

[csb]

Each May we had to go find where the vacuum was kept. There was one for each floor. Same way with a microwave and ironing board, which was only used by the kids who had rushed fraternities. 

My kid used dry erase markers for math- I can see requiring them for that, but not 16. Our teachers could teach them their, "These are ******* expensive, so put the ******* lids back on all the way!" speech. 

 

[Supe]

I watched someone at work write on one of those electronic smart boards in sharpie once.  Didn't say a word.

 

[Road Guy]

eldest RG JR got his own dorm room, - no roommate - he paid the extra $500 a semester for it.  I bought him the mini fridge and told him if he wanted the microwave that was on him..

I kind of believe not having a roommate will make him more of a slob and not clean up to be honest... But I wont be involved in seeing it or cleaning it so not really my problem..

on a funny note, a friend of his is going to Cornell, he has been helping her with some math placement test (or something)  all summer - Jr was like, weird I am tutoring someone who got into Cornell...

 

[snickerd3]

Everyone is latching on to make $$$ of this process... it’s like being at the county fair Ik terms of being nickeled and dimed...

Everything from renters insurance to people that want to sell you a dorm packet of sheets towels, bed linings and such.

No **** we even got a letter from people who will send custom care packages to your kid while in college - $25- “home made cookies” thanksgiving package $200. Etc.

The people are even greedier than the governments running the damn colleges...

the custom care package isn't that new.  They had those when I went.  The alumni group organized it, IIRC, as a fundraiser.  

 

[P-E]

Asbestos found in crayons - yikes

https://www.google.com/amp/www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-playskool-crayons-asbestos-20180807-story,amp.html

 

[knight1fox3]

renters for dorms? I never had renters in the dorm, but def when I got my apartment.

LOL, even then we didn't do that. Hmm...renters or insurance or spring break? :thumbs:

Jr was like, weird I am tutoring someone who got into Cornell...

 

[MA_PE]

Asbestos found in crayons - yikes

https://www.google.com/amp/www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-playskool-crayons-asbestos-20180807-story,amp.html

don't snort 'em or eat 'em.  You'll be ok.

 

[Road Guy]

the marines are in trouble!

 

[Supe]

"If God in his infinite wisdom did not want Marines to eat crayons, he wouldn't have made them in so many pretty colors." - Lee Ermey

 

[Road Guy]

Saw this on the internets