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[quote=Anonymous]I'm going to guess that a DD will want to pick out her comforter. Some decisions like this fall under the decorating category, and with a DD, she will want to make these decisions (sheets too? maybe) Girls often coordinate the look for their room once they start communicating with their new roommate-to-be. Too early for this - decorating. That will probably be July/Aug.

But Mom, I totally "get" you wanting to buy. You may have very practical reasons. For me it was more emotional. It was a transition-thing. It was fun. Fun when other aspects can be a bit bitter sweet/sad.

I bought a lot. So much that I could have furnished several college kid's rooms. Even though I had bought, I didn't force - in August, because it wasn't till then that the kids would focus on it - in August, they choose to take a lot of what I bought but not all. I returned some, donated some.

Now with my later child, a DS, I think buying ahead of time for college was almost like  providing a "hope chest". Every purchase was based on the hope that he would be bound for college. I was willing-it along.

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