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So WOW the time for me to move out is getting sooner and sooner. Right now, I'll be packing up my bags and moving into the house in about 2 weeks.

Obviously I can't take everything with me and I'll also need to buy some things... So I started to compile a list of things I'll need to survive. Please help me complete this list!!

Have:
- Laptop
- Wireless Printer
- Ipod
- Speakers/stereo
- TV (decide upon roommate agreement)
- Playstation/Xbox/Dvd player (Decide upon roommate agreement)
- DVD Collection
- clothes (shirts, shorts, pants, boxers, shoes, etc)
- Camera
- Down Comforter

Need:
- Laptop lock (maybe)
- Mini Fridge (decide upon roommate agreement)
- Microwave (decide upon roommate agreement)
- Mattress pad
- Small room safe
- 2 Large Pillows
- Sheets
- Small Food Supply (Ramen noodles, etc)
- Plastic silverware
- Bulletin board/white board
- clip-on book light
- Alarm clock
- 4 towels
- Robe
- Hangers
- shampoo, razors, hair gel, toothpaste, toothbrush, etc
- Something to hold that stuff in
- Laundry bag
- stackable crates for storage
- lots of boxers
- more socks
- more undershirts
- more clothes
- new shoes
- messenger bag
- school supplies (notebooks, pens, pencils, hilighters, etc)

duct tape
Ramen and Easy Mac are for amateurs--it's all about Velveeta shells & cheese and jerky
gladware
egg crate pad (in addition to regular mattress pad)

Duct tape definately!

Added those to my list...

Where would I go about getting an egg crate pad? I've seen em, never tried one tho...

Thanks for the ideas

-Matt

hammer, screw driver, nails and screws, over-door hook or towel-rack dealies.

penis enlargement pump

i know its not your bag baby

I live for those stick-on hooks to hang things on. I use the ones from 3M that are called "Command Adhesive". They're the ones that come with the stick-um that when you want to take the hook back down, you pull from the bottom and it stretches and comes loose from the wall without hurting the wall. They're really useful and conveniant because you can put them anywhere, all over the place, and they come in a couple of different sizes. Just look for them in the sticky-hooks section of the hardware section in Wal-Mart or wherever.

As for an egg-crate pad, try Bed, Bath, and Beyond or any of those types of stores. At this time of the year they'll generally have a "going to college" section right at the front and you can probably find one there.

Glad to see you came down on the 'pro' side of the messenger-bag debate.

I cant say enough about sandals. The cheap $2.00 kind from wal-mart. You will want them for the shower. Even if you have one in your room that only you and your roomie use, you will want them. You will have no idea what foot disease others might have. Especially if you have communal showers, you will definately want them.

Also, get a small plastic basket to put all your showers supplies in, that way you can carry them all to the shower easily. A closeable soap holder.

Also a microwave if your dorm will allow them.

How could you forget laundry soap and quarters? :D Headache medicine, fan *unless your dorm has a/c....not all do*, and I know there is more...*grr* my brain is tired though

definately get a whiteboard. My roommates and I had one and all we wrote on it were phone messages.

wash clothes
multi vitamins
sleeping pills, depending on the need
ear plugs

-bandaids
-medicine...at some point you're going to need aspirin and dayquil etc so you might as well get it now
-sandals, not just the kind for the shower (though those are definitely needed) after the first few weeks of school you'll forget to do laundry or just not want to wear regular shoes..I'd never seen guys in flipflops until my first year of college...by the third week pretty much everyone on campus was wearing flipflops etc
-pair of pajama pants that you can wear out if need be (sometimes people randomly wear pjs to class...you should be prepared just in case)
-skip the ramen, it's gross and doesn't provide enough nutrition. Instead get canned foods like chef boyardee and soup.
-A can-opener. Nobody remebers to take them, but you will need it eventually
-pack of cards
-notebook paper, you can never have too much of it
-posters for you wall, dorm rooms and the like start to get lonely looking pretty quickly

Tha's all I can think of right now. Good luck and enjoy your freshman year!

A small tool kit, a definite must
Cleaning stuff, unless you can buy once at school
What about a room phone, unless the school provides them

Definitely check out target or bed, bath, beyond, it was nice to have like a chair in the room too for guests, if you can find one cheap

i see no 30 pack....that is very crucial for moving back to school

The closets in our dorms didn't have doors, so we hung nice looking cloth shower curtains to hide the mess. You may want to consider that.

A Swiffer & Swiffer sheets!!!!!! An absolute must for the dust bunnies :)

batteries

diskettes...lots of them!

I second the roll of quaters vote!

Erica

toilet paper! The dorms restrooms only have John Wayne toilet paper (Rough and tough and doesn't shit off anybody).

flip flops to wear in the shower.

Are you going to Missouri? I was reading their reslife website...check this out!!

What is the color of my room?

Unfortunately, we can't determine the color of your room in advance. You may paint your MU residence hall room in one of the approved paint colors — equipment and paint will be provided free of charge. For deeply pigmented colors, there is a fee and re-painting will be required. See the Painting Policy for more details.

PAINT YOUR WALLS? Wish we had that :)

Other items you need:

Surge protector plug bar
First Aid Kit
Your insurance card
Handheld vacuum (this came in SOOO handy for my slob of a roommate :))
Stamps
Sewing Kit

Good luck :)

They can paint their rooms...I've never heard of such...how fun!!!

Don't forget your Social Security card (you'll need it if you get a job, even on campus)
I was a big fan of Ragu Express--its as easy and convenient as Easy Mac (same company I think)
Make sure your shower bucket has holes in the bottom so water doesn't sit in it.
Bathrobes and flip flops came in especially handy for all those fire alarms that went off in the middle of the night.
Pictures!!!
I know its been said, but TONS of quarters--if your school has an ID card/debit card that you can put money on to do laundry/eat on campus and stuff...this is WONDERFUL!!! Quarter machines always break and are out of quarters.

Set of dishes including coffee mug and traveling coffee mug for classes
I WORSHIP COMMAND HOOKS! they are the best things ever...if you have a Container Store near you, go check it out, it's AWESOME!
Yay for surge protectors and whoever beat me to the ear plugs suggestion is a genius...it took me until sophomore year to figure that one out ::rolleyes:

Yay! Thanks guys, most of these I've already added to my list. I'll prolly go shopping for everything next week sometime...

Also -- I'll be moving into AKL, not a reshall... It is cool that they pay for you to paint your room. I doubt AKL will cover that, but I'm pretty sure I can still paint my room. Good stuff...

Keep em comin' guys! Thanks much!

-Matt

This may be a little over the top...

When my (much younger) sister went to college recently, I made her a couple of Emergency Kits in plastic tool boxes.

Medicine Cabinet: aspirin, Pepto, Benedryl lotion & caps, Alka Seltzer, Neosporin, Band Aids, alcohol pads, Q Tips, condoms, Claritin, Robitussin, Tylenol Sinus AM & PM, decongestants, Vit C, athlete's foot powder & spray, and packets of hot spice tea.

Basically all the stuff you would normally get from Mom's cabinet!

And a Tool Chest: small hammer, very thin nails, tacks, lots of kinds of tape, Super Glue, variety of over the door hooks, stain remover, the Command Adhesive hooks, sticky Velcro (A MUST!) dots and strips, screwdriver kit with regular & Phillips heads, glue sticks, etc.

Quarters are a must! Our dorm always ran out of quarters so we had to stomp around in the snow outside to other dorms on our side of campus to find quarters at 3 in the morning. Such fun....

I wish we could have painted our rooms.....oh wait, the leaky toilet a floor above us probably would have ruined the side that was wall, the other side was brick!

Depending on the type of wall you're going to have, if you want to put stuff on your wall, I suggest buying that white sticky stuff to stick it on with. The walls we have at Valpo are some white brick and tape comes off them sooo easily.

Wait are you moving into your fraternity or into the dorms?

At any rate, what about paper for your printer? Dryer sheets, sticy tack (the stuff that you use to put up posters, pics whatever on your walls). Those little mini tool kits come in handy - I still don't have one, but I've always lived with someone who does. :)

I really really hate sticky tack. Sometimes when the year is over, you go to take down your posters/pictures and the sticky tack has turned weird and gummy, and it won't all come off from the back of your pictures or the wall. If you use a large piece of colored sticky tack, it can also discolor the wall.

Instead, I use the Command adhesive strips for poster hanging: they're made especially for that and don't hurt the poster or the wall if you pull them off right. I've used plain old tape on photos and never had a problem with the wall, actually, if I pull the tape off slowly.

That's a good point, we were only supposed to use the white kind.

Oh I thought of something else. For laundry, Shout makes these things called "Color Catchers", that you put in the laundry with your clothes and they supposedly collect all the loose dyes from the clothes so your other clothes in the load don't get dyed. They look like dryer sheets. Sounds like a good thing for in case you forget to seperate your whites from your colors.