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Things to take, furnishing dorms and apartments

Before furnishing dorms and apartments, always check out your prospective dwelling to find out what's provided.

Living in the dorms:

Joint purchases you'll want to discuss with your roommate so you buy only one of these items:

  • Area rug

  • Curtains

  • TV

  • Microwave

  • Mini-refrigerator

  • Phone and answering machine - depending on dorm set-up

  • Memo board

  • Fan, depending on AC, or not

  • Coffee pot if allowed

  • Wastebaskets

  • Ironing board, if needed

  • Mirror if needed

    • Our college living home page

    For what to pack, visit: Personal Items to take to College.

    Things not to take:

    The following are generally not allowed when furnishing dorms and some apartments

  • Candles - for obvious reasons they are not allowed

  • Illegal drugs

  • Hot plates or anything with open burners

  • Ask about coffee pots

  • Waterbed

  • Weapons or firearms of any kind

  • Alcohol - increasingly colleges are not allowing alcohol in the dorms

  • Halogen light bulbs

  • Fireworks or explosives

  • Anything you can't hang with a sticky tape

  • Pets - sometimes fish are allowed

  • Anything valuable including jewelry, keepsakes, heirlooms

    • A word about apartment life and pets

    Many apartments allow pets, or students keep them anyway.

    One of the most insensitive practices of apartment dwelling college students is the practice of acquiring a kitten or a puppy at the beginning of each school year, and then abandoning the animal(s) when they leave the apartment after school is out in the spring or when they graduate.

    A pet is a life-long commitment, and it is cruel to make one your pet for nine months, and then just drive off and leave it, sometimes to be killed (and it is not a humane killing) at a local shelter.

    Joint purchases for apartment living:

  • Organizational items for extra storage, underbed, overhead, closet

  • Extension cords

  • Lamps

  • Area rug

  • Curtains

  • Depending on unfurnished, or furnished, or the degree of furnished, you will need furniture: Think yard sales, thrift shops.

    • Beds (Loft Beds work best)

    • Couch

    • A chair or two

    • Desks

  • TV

  • Microwave

  • Phone and answering machine - depending on apartment arrangement, or use of cells

  • Memo board

  • Fan, depending on AC, or not

  • Coffee pot

  • Wastebaskets

  • Irons

  • Ironing board, if needed

  • Mirrors if needed

  • Cleaning supplies

    • Sponges

    • Dishwasher detergent

    • a mop

    • Bucket

    • Dishtowels

  • Cooking utensils and supplies:

    • Microwave, if not included

    • Four ingredient cookbooks

    • Pots, pans

    • Plates, glassware

    • Mugs for coffee and tea

    • Airtight storage containers for flour, sugar, etc. (flying bugs like these ingredients as incubators for their offspring. Yuk)

    • Storage Containers for leftovers

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