Buying dorm bedding

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Anonymous wrote:Get a full size comforter. Your kid can use it to cover their storage drawers if they raise the bed half-way. Maybe even a queen size will work better. No need to buy that bed skirt to hide the their stuff.

This, with the full-size comforter. Worked like a charm. No topper but we did add a mattress protector when there were rumors of bed bugs (false alarm).

Kept the sheets inexpensive and only bought one set. Furnished off-campus apt next year had a different size anyway.

Good luck and don’t forget a full-sized trash can. Never woulda thought of that one ourselves and now it’s almost a gag grad gift (with a nice check in the bottom!) that most have commented on how “useful” it is/was.

My kids colleges both provided trash/recycle bins

So did ours but they were small and barely held one take-out box. :p

Ew. More than a night’s worth of takeout remnants means your kid’s room smells. Disgusting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you all for the recs! It adds up! We are going with the sleepyhead topper, a zippered mattress cover, 2 sets of sheets, a PBTeen comforter, pillows and pillow protectors, shams, decorative throw, an extra fleece blanket $775!

You DO know that you can do this MUCH more cheaply, right? You don't need to giggle and be all "I guess this is what it costs to send a girl to college!" about it. She doesn't need two sets of sheets, or more than two pillows, no need for shams or a decorative throw. Hell, she can take her pillows from home.

Seriously! I can see two sets of sheets, but pillows are $10 at Target. Sham is not necessary or desirable. Decorative throw made out of gold thread? Why send a fleece blanket now instead of waiting to see if she actually needs it? Etc.

I was a non-drinker and loved being up early on a Saturday or Sunday morning, when I'd strip my bed to do my laundry while studying all in silence while everyone else was sleeping off their hangovers. By 10am my bedding was washed and back on my bed, I'd eaten breakfast and studied for two hours and had a week's worth of clean clothes again.

Honest to god I have no memory of doing laundry in college. I mean obviously I did, and I had clean clothes and sheets. I vaguely remember the laundry room in my freshman dorm but the other years are a blank for laundry.

I had a lot of fun and great memories though, just laundry wasn’t a headline.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get a full size comforter. Your kid can use it to cover their storage drawers if they raise the bed half-way. Maybe even a queen size will work better. No need to buy that bed skirt to hide the their stuff.

This, with the full-size comforter. Worked like a charm. No topper but we did add a mattress protector when there were rumors of bed bugs (false alarm).

Kept the sheets inexpensive and only bought one set. Furnished off-campus apt next year had a different size anyway.

Good luck and don’t forget a full-sized trash can. Never woulda thought of that one ourselves and now it’s almost a gag grad gift (with a nice check in the bottom!) that most have commented on how “useful” it is/was.

My kids colleges both provided trash/recycle bins

So did ours but they were small and barely held one take-out box. :p

why are people so weirdly combative? it's the college forum, meant to be helpful. ffs
Ew. More than a night’s worth of takeout remnants means your kid’s room smells. Disgusting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you all for the recs! It adds up! We are going with the sleepyhead topper, a zippered mattress cover, 2 sets of sheets, a PBTeen comforter, pillows and pillow protectors, shams, decorative throw, an extra fleece blanket $775!

You DO know that you can do this MUCH more cheaply, right? You don't need to giggle and be all "I guess this is what it costs to send a girl to college!" about it. She doesn't need two sets of sheets, or more than two pillows, no need for shams or a decorative throw. Hell, she can take her pillows from home.

Seriously! I can see two sets of sheets, but pillows are $10 at Target. Sham is not necessary or desirable. Decorative throw made out of gold thread? Why send a fleece blanket now instead of waiting to see if she actually needs it? Etc.

I was a non-drinker and loved being up early on a Saturday or Sunday morning, when I'd strip my bed to do my laundry while studying all in silence while everyone else was sleeping off their hangovers. By 10am my bedding was washed and back on my bed, I'd eaten breakfast and studied for two hours and had a week's worth of clean clothes again.

Honest to god I have no memory of doing laundry in college. I mean obviously I did, and I had clean clothes and sheets. I vaguely remember the laundry room in my freshman dorm but the other years are a blank for laundry.

I had a lot of fun and great memories though, just laundry wasn’t a headline.

excellent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kid's college required the toppers to meet CA standards (and school was not in CA). Sleepyhead mattress toppers are fire resistant and meet flammability standards and comply with California's TB117-2013 flammability standards and are CertiPUR-US certified, meaning the foam is free from harmful chemicals like flame retar_ants.
So cheap ones were not an option for us. And kid loves his sleepyhead.

yep, resident life just sent out a "dorm do's and don'ts" and the blue exposed foam-type and egg crate style mattress toppers are forbidden. Not sure if they pass if they're encased. But also need to be fire-resistant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you all for the recs! It adds up! We are going with the sleepyhead topper, a zippered mattress cover, 2 sets of sheets, a PBTeen comforter, pillows and pillow protectors, shams, decorative throw, an extra fleece blanket $775!

OMG I spent $250 on an organic mattress pad for both kids, and then $60 -75 on the rest. How is that even possible? I purposely spent “a lot” on bedding because they didn’t bring shelves and other crap.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you all for the recs! It adds up! We are going with the sleepyhead topper, a zippered mattress cover, 2 sets of sheets, a PBTeen comforter, pillows and pillow protectors, shams, decorative throw, an extra fleece blanket $775!

OMG I spent $250 on an organic mattress pad for both kids, and then $60 -75 on the rest. How is that even possible? I purposely spent “a lot” on bedding because they didn’t bring shelves and other crap.

OMG not everyone shops at Target. How do you not even understand that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you all for the recs! It adds up! We are going with the sleepyhead topper, a zippered mattress cover, 2 sets of sheets, a PBTeen comforter, pillows and pillow protectors, shams, decorative throw, an extra fleece blanket $775!

You are ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Well, I felt it was pretty ridiculous too, but it adds up to get decent quality bedding. I want her to be comfortable and have a nice room - and she paid for half with $ she earned from her job so I spent what I thought was reasonable. There is no way to get sheets, pillows, blanket, comforter for $50-$60 even at Target so I think done PPs are not remembering correctly or adding up all the components.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you all for the recs! It adds up! We are going with the sleepyhead topper, a zippered mattress cover, 2 sets of sheets, a PBTeen comforter, pillows and pillow protectors, shams, decorative throw, an extra fleece blanket $775!

You are ridiculous.

DP. I'd like dd to have a comfy bed she loves. If that's $775, then so be it.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I felt it was pretty ridiculous too, but it adds up to get decent quality bedding. I want her to be comfortable and have a nice room - and she paid for half with $ she earned from her job so I spent what I thought was reasonable. There is no way to get sheets, pillows, blanket, comforter for $50-$60 even at Target so I think done PPs are not remembering correctly or adding up all the components.

pps are ridiculous. Lots of girls (and boys) go all out on their dorm bedding -- it's almost all the personal space they have.

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We're full pay at a private college so $90,775 or $90,075 doesn't make a difference. Let the kid have the bed they love.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, I felt it was pretty ridiculous too, but it adds up to get decent quality bedding. I want her to be comfortable and have a nice room - and she paid for half with $ she earned from her job so I spent what I thought was reasonable. There is no way to get sheets, pillows, blanket, comforter for $50-$60 even at Target so I think done PPs are not remembering correctly or adding up all the components.

Nope, have done it twice recently and spent nowhere close to that amount. You can get decent bedding at a much lower price.

[Anonymous]

We bought the complete set - mattress pad, mattress protector, body pillow, 2 pillows, 2 pillow protectors, 2 pillow cases, fleece blanket, cotton waffle blanket, sheet set, microfiber faux down comforter etc etc - from Amazon, Target, Kohls, Costco.

No, we did not pay $700 for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We bought the complete set - mattress pad, mattress protector, body pillow, 2 pillows, 2 pillow protectors, 2 pillow cases, fleece blanket, cotton waffle blanket, sheet set, microfiber faux down comforter etc etc - from Amazon, Target, Kohls, Costco.

No, we did not pay $700 for it.

good for you. we still can choose to buy bedding from different places.