You just dropped your kid off at college - what did you forget?

[Anonymous]

An umbrella. Today it rained and she got wet on her walk to class.

Oh, well. Fortunately we live in a world with something called Amazon Prime and she can get it in two days for $20. Easy peasy.

Glasses, medication...that's a little different!

[Anonymous]

all bathing suits.

[Anonymous]

Fortunately I will never know as DC was responsible for packing and DC will be responsible for figuring out how to get anything they forgot!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:all bathing suits.

Mine too!!! I’m truly baffled by her forgetting to open that drawer!!

She also didn’t pack hangers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fortunately I will never know as DC was responsible for packing and DC will be responsible for figuring out how to get anything they forgot!

That’s just not who we are as a family. We all depend and help each other including extended family. I’d definitely send my kid or nieces or nephew’s something they forgot. So would my sisters and brothers.

[Anonymous]

Not as many things as last year!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fortunately I will never know as DC was responsible for packing and DC will be responsible for figuring out how to get anything they forgot!

That’s just not who we are as a family. We all depend and help each other including extended family. I’d definitely send my kid or nieces or nephew’s something they forgot. So would my sisters and brothers.

This is me, now, second PP. My parents sound exactly like the first PP. I vowed to my kids that I would always do whatever was necessary to help them, big or small.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fortunately I will never know as DC was responsible for packing and DC will be responsible for figuring out how to get anything they forgot!

i love how these people have to pop up on every thread to post something like this, or "land the helicopter"! You are just trying to make yourself feel better because you have a crappy relationship with your kid. The rest of us do not feel the least bit guilty that we do not.

[Anonymous]

Body wash, swim jammers, pool noodle for that annoying gap between the bed & wall

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fortunately I will never know as DC was responsible for packing and DC will be responsible for figuring out how to get anything they forgot!

i love how these people have to pop up on every thread to post something like this, or "land the helicopter"! You are just trying to make yourself feel better because you have a crappy relationship with your kid. The rest of us do not feel the least bit guilty that we do not.

NP. Just because PP’s kid is more independent than yours doesn’t say *anything* about their relationship.

But you jumping to that conclusion says a lot about you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Body wash, swim jammers, pool noodle for that annoying gap between the bed & wall

OMG before last week’s move-in I wouldn’t have had any idea what this was referring to!! Now I know exactly what you are talking about and will ask DD if she wants to go looking at Target for a pool noodle (on her own or with friends—she’s several hours away from home).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fortunately I will never know as DC was responsible for packing and DC will be responsible for figuring out how to get anything they forgot!

i love how these people have to pop up on every thread to post something like this, or "land the helicopter"! You are just trying to make yourself feel better because you have a crappy relationship with your kid. The rest of us do not feel the least bit guilty that we do not.

NP. Just because PP’s kid is more independent than yours doesn’t say *anything* about their relationship.

But you jumping to that conclusion says a lot about you.

So independent people never forget or need minor help? Come on. I’m extremely independent as a professional and parent and DH just I teed over a file I forgot at home.

[Anonymous]

My kid is now a senior and each year she brings MUCH less than the year before.

BUT, we would be lost without Amazon. Can you imagine how much time parents must have wasted in the past mailing forgotten items to kids at college?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is now a senior and each year she brings MUCH less than the year before.

BUT, we would be lost without Amazon. Can you imagine how much time parents must have wasted in the past mailing forgotten items to kids at college?

actually - the kids just survived without them - figured it out.

[Anonymous]

Bug spray and extra hangers.