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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Give daughter a budget, tell her to tell the roommate the budget but make sure daughter likes the items picked or tell her to pick her own as she's got to live with it for four years and probably will change roommates.

Roomate, I have a budget of $200.  I like pink, blue and grey.  I was thinking of this as my comforter.  [/quote]

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OP’s original post was all about their preferences, nothing about their child.  You are sending your daughter off to live in her own - learning to negotiate with her roommate and make decisions about her living space are daily low risk baby steps. Give her a budget and let her decide what she wants to spend on. I went to school in the Deep South and the first thing my roommate and I talked about was colors, but we didn’t really decorate. Even 20 years ago fully decorating a room was a thing, which I didn’t realize until I got there & our neighbors had matching comforters/dust ruffles/pillows. Shelves put up, decor etc. Now thanks to Tik tok and Bama rush, most kids are aware of it. You might see it as wasteful, but if that was an important value to you, hopefully you instilled it in her while she lived at home the past 18 years - now is the time she gets to figure out what she wants. Don’t micromanage! [/quote]

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