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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What? They live on Campus and housing and meals are paid for. $$$

What would they need money for?[/quote]

Lol. Girls especially will spend money on food outside the dining hall (if not meals then coffee, snacks, pizza), personal upkeep (nails, hair, waxing - particularly if they are going out or rushing), clothes, ubers, dorm decor, gifts... not excusing it but it is what it is.[/quote]

Our daughters need a reality check. They waste too much money.[/quote]

The reality check is making them earn their own money for clothes, upkeep, Starbucks, etc. (though note it's not fair that boys have no expectation of "upkeep")
Agreed we live in a materialist society - [b]let's stop with having the dorm rooms on Instagram look like that Taj Mahal for one thing[/b]...[/quote]
yea, I'm not paying for that.  I don't mind getting her a little plant but nothing like some of the stuff I've seen online.[/quote]

Shoot, even the basics for college dorm add up, though. I haven't bought any decor items (unless you count bedding, which you need any way you slice it), and we're still hundreds of dollars deep :(

But my child got an earful before prom when she was insisting on fancy acrylics. Girl, I rarely get my nails done at all, and you are saying I'm ruining your life if I don't pay over $100 for your nails for one night? NOPE.

She has gift cards coming her way via grandma and some that were received as gifts. Use those, chica.[/quote]

What are you buying for the dorm room that costs that much? Most of what my DD took was from her room. Next year she will be in an apartment with a kitchen so I have bought a few kitchen items that we don't have enough of in our kitchen to give her.[/quote]

shower shoes, shower tote, bathrobe, bins/drawers (some I got from a garage sale), small first aid kit, small hand steamer for clothes (I think this was $15), a pill organizer for her meds that connects to a smart phone for reminders (this was less than $20 and worth it to us), a locking storage ottoman (which was about $25 and multipurpose - step onto bed AND lock up valuables including aforementioned meds), mattress encasement to protect against bedbugs, a mattress topper (got a deal at Home Depot for less than $50), a set of pillows, a laptop desk from IKEA for her bed, a tool set at IKEA for I think $10, and of course the all important woozoo ;P ....

Look, it adds up. We still have to get a computer for her, too - thankfully, we got a huge amount of gift cards from Costco and she and her father have scoped one out that the cards will cover. We're not going to be traveling back and forth a lot - it's a bit far for that.[/quote]

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