Moving DC into College Dorm--Any tips appreciated!
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Anonymous
I'm pretty sure this is a joke -- either that or you're Elle Woods's mom. In any case, I've taken 3 sons to college and none of them had the least interest in packing until about a week before we left, and even then, their concept of packing involved throwing the following into the back of the car: a mini-frig, xbox and a case of toilet paper. Best advice I ever got re all this was not to take too much stuff. Also, you can go to Bed, Bath and Beyond here and order stuff to be picked up at a store near campus. This is particularly helpful if you're flying, but even if you're driving, it cuts down on the loading and unloading and saves room in the car. |
Anonymous
| My DDs dorm room wasn't a joke, but I'm glad you all enjoyed a laugh. She and her roommate picked out the fabric and we had everything made. Dorm rooms like this are pretty typical where she goes to school. |
Anonymous
Where the heck is she in school? No one I know ever decorated like this in College. |
Anonymous
some kind of religious institution? |
Anonymous
She goes to an SEC school. |
Anonymous
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Her room may not be a joke but you are!
Helicopter mom to the nth degree! |
Anonymous
| The answer to this thread is: your nearly-adult child is moving into a dorm room, you are not. Your job is to drive her there, kiss her goodbye, and leave. |
Anonymous
There was girl on our floor from a wealthy family. Her mom hired an interior decorator, had the walls painted and made the room "nicer", as she put it. |
Anonymous
| My SIL is the same way -- talked talked and talked with her 2 daughters, and planned every inch, took measuring tape and tools to the dorm room, BIL spent hours remaking it to her specifications. Kind of disgusted me. But it was good bonding for the mom as her daughter was leaving the nest, I suppose. Now all they have to keep them connected are .....let's see, chatting several times a day, mother investigating what courses daughter should take, emailing professors about this and that, calling registrar to find out about wait lists, getting severe weather alerts by text for the city where daughter is (and following up with her to be sure she's OK), watching her cheerleading stints on satellite TV. And so forth. |
Anonymous
| OK -- it's not a joke (and I guess you're not Elle Woods's mom either), so fine, have fun decorating if that's what floats your boat, but was it really necessary for you to pull the mean girl act on OP? Even if everyone at your DD's school decorates this way, surely you can imagine that at most schools it's not a big priority for many students. |
Anonymous
Wait...really??? So what was your decorating budget? Will they live together all 4 years or do you change the decor each year? At my DDs college there is nothing that even approaches this level. DD went to a wealthy girls boarding school and none of the girls from her high school class have rooms like this either. Are you from the DC area? |
Anonymous
This one looks a bit over the top, but Dormify has a website and design service for the affluent, pampered college student. It's a disgusting display of conspicuous consumption. The well-dressed bed for a mere $750.00. http://www.dormify.com/dorm-and-apartment |
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To answer the questions:
We live in CCDC. This was her freshman room, I think it ran about 800 per girl. We redid everything when she moved into the sorority house her sophomore year. DD is a design major so this is not entirely my doing, although I did foot the bill. |
Anonymous
After she graduates, please share some Before and After bedroom design pics, the measure the impact college will have... |
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Op here,
Thanks for all the helpful replies!!! My DC is very independent minded and would never have wanted that matchy-matchy dorm room linked above, but, whatever floats your boat! All the other responses were very helpful! Thanks. |