Dorm items your college freshman didn't use

[Anonymous]

+1000 on the desk lamp. It's a waste. It can be annoying to your roommate, takes up desk space and your PC will provide all the light you should need.

[Anonymous]

My student wasn’t allowed to have a steak or chopping knife, so did not use that or her cutting board. I wish we’d gotten her a small fridge with larger freezer section, so she could pack it with frozen meals. She did not need the extra throw pillows or throw rugs. She definitely needed a vacuum, for floor and to vacuum air filter during filter changes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most of it. The dumpster on move out day are insane. Brand new stuff still in boxes in the garbage, vacuums, rugs, whole pieces of furniture, etc. Only sent up essentials bc they are going to throw out everything else

At one of my kid's schools, a charity puts out huge bins (dumpsters? I haven't actually seen them myself) for students to put the still good/usable stuff they want to get rid of at the end of the year. Then they have a huge yard sale and use the profits to fund their charity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine definitely used the box of condoms I sent him up with, and probably many more after that. Better than a baby in nine months.

Yeah, water balloon fights.