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By *irthandgirth OP Man
over a year ago
Camberley occasionally doncaster |
Not me.. my sproglet has grown up and is off to Uni this sept. Having never gone to uni, I want to help her out, get her a starter kit for living away from home for the first time.
Writing a list of things to get. I have gotten as far as:
Bedding (2 sets) + duvet and mattress topper
Kitchen stuff including -
Knife block
Chopping boards
Slow cooker
Basic utensils
Mixing bowls
Couple of saucepan
Wok
Frying pan
Anything else I should be considering? Sensible suggestions please..  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Wipes
Seriously- flash wipes
Ah, no. Her mother had an obsession with wipes. They don't get anything clean! They just smear dirt living an antibac film. Hot soapy water every time.."
Are you saying I live in a dirty smear antibacterial film  |
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OP there is very little she is likely to need in her first year at uni. Most first year students have to stay in halls so they usually have everything provided - some even include meals whilst others provide an equipped kitchen to cook their own.
It's best to wait until she has a confirmed place and then check with the uni what she needs.
After the first year most students have to find their own accommodation and they need everything except furniture. |
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"Not me.. my sproglet has grown up and is off to Uni this sept. Having never gone to uni, I want to help her out, get her a starter kit for living away from home for the first time.
Writing a list of things to get. I have gotten as far as:
Bedding (2 sets) + duvet and mattress topper
Kitchen stuff including -
Knife block
Chopping boards
Slow cooker
Basic utensils
Mixing bowls
Couple of saucepan
Wok
Frying pan
Anything else I should be considering? Sensible suggestions please.. "
See where she gets to live first? You don't know what she needs yet, unless it's halls and you know? |
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We’re in the same boat but lucky (or not!!) ours is staying at home.
Student finance opened yesterday......
If you haven't already, teach her to cook in bulk & freeze using plastic or foil containers from poundland. A slow cooker can be great & you can get liners from Poundland to reduce mess. Student cookbook? Find her way around Aldi/Lidl, to use a washing machine, not to mix her drinks for a shorter hangover..... A padlock for her kitchen cupboard, a small fridge form her room for milk & butter - or to put a drop of food colouring in her milk to stop others using! Or laxatives 
J x |
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"We’re in the same boat but lucky (or not!!) ours is staying at home.
Student finance opened yesterday......
If you haven't already, teach her to cook in bulk & freeze using plastic or foil containers from poundland. A slow cooker can be great & you can get liners from Poundland to reduce mess. Student cookbook? Find her way around Aldi/Lidl, to use a washing machine, not to mix her drinks for a shorter hangover..... A padlock for her kitchen cupboard, a small fridge form her room for milk & butter - or to put a drop of food colouring in her milk to stop others using! Or laxatives
J x "
Yep! 
I'm assuming you've already had the drinking to excess, safe sex, just say no talk. It wil have gone in one ear and out the other possibly but possibly nof. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My son is off too in September, he got his conditional email the other week, he lives quite deep in Kent and he is off to London, his step mum wants him to stay at home but myself and his dad want him to go and experience it all and he really wants to move out lol.
Although it costs a bomb where he is looking, god knows where the money is coming from and his step mum said she would help do his student loan application but she says you got ages yet but as I tried getting student loan last year it took forever! I told him to speak to his college and see what he needs to do (so you know, if anyone here has any dealings with that and would like to give me some pointers, let me know!)
It’s all very exciting for him, no one in my family has ever gone to uni.
OP I would wait and see what your daughter needs because most things I believe they have in halls for cooking.
Danish x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Towels, shampoos, conditioners and shower gels. A little caddy that she can take to the shower room, if she is staying in the dorms. Oh and congratulations. You must be a proud daddy right now! . |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Plenty of coins for the washing machine (if they use that kind), my middle son went off to college near Brighton in September and the little git instead of actually using the money does his washing in his sink
Danish x |
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By (user no longer on site)
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There is a vaccine they recommend students have to protect against meningitis. The MenACWY vaccine helps protect you against four different causes of meningitis and septicaemia; meningococcal groups A, C, W and Y disease.
They may have had the vaccine, but they used to use a jab just for meningitis C, but the other three types are included in it now. |
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When I packed my nephew off to Uni I gave him a few £50 gift cards. One for Sainsbury’s one for ASOS and the most important one a Nando’s Card.
His Mum does his online food shopping for him and Halls are relatively well equipped these days so I thought he would like that. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Towels. first aid kit. Student cook book. A box of dried food stuff,store cupboard ingredients such as herbs, spices, salt, pepper pasta etc. Basic cleaning kit with washing up liquid, sponges, bleach. Bin libers. |
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I didn't bring any of that stuff.
Just bought bed sheets and stuff when I got there, and bought a tv for the bedroom when I got there from cex, sold it back to them at end of year for like 5 pound less than I bought it.
I just used the cookers/pots/pans they had there. 5 of us chipped in and got a george foreman though. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Tuck some condoms in when he’s not looking. He will appreciate that and it saves him some embarrassment. "
I did this for my son at college and he ‘claims’ he left them in his bedside drawer and the staff came in and didn’t bother to check, chucked out the old one complete with full pack in...apparently. So doughnut decided to buy a pack of 50 from amazon and send them to him (I don’t want to be a granny just yet) and he was expecting another package from us, his face when he opened it up in front of the lady on the desk 
Danish x |
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By *oodmessMan
over a year ago
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Much as there's library's, the essential books are usually taken out straight away so book vouchers are a good bet.
As people have said everything is usually provided even out of halls. Tell them to auction them if they get short of money. Space is tight so having everything will mean things will get leant never to be returned or it wont allow other people room for their stuff.
A good duvet and some tins of beans will see them through. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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My son graduated last September. In his first year we took a whole car full of stuff including most of the kitchen stuff already mentioned, first aid kit, food to make meals, etc and then for the next 2 years we took a car boot full of the essentials only |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Leave the students to it.
Independence etc.
Don’t spoon feed them.
All that the parents and the guardians need to give them is MONEY!
There were a few who had part time jobs in shops and few who also worked at the local strip clubs - bare all.
Some turn to escorting.
Let them find their own way but keep them in check. |
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By *oo32Man
over a year ago
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"Not me.. my sproglet has grown up and is off to Uni this sept. Having never gone to uni, I want to help her out, get her a starter kit for living away from home for the first time.
Writing a list of things to get. I have gotten as far as:
Bedding (2 sets) + duvet and mattress topper
Kitchen stuff including -
Knife block
Chopping boards
Slow cooker
Basic utensils
Mixing bowls
Couple of saucepan
Wok
Frying pan
Anything else I should be considering? Sensible suggestions please.. "
An extension lead....
Coat hangers
Antiseptic wipes
Flip flops |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"There is a vaccine they recommend students have to protect against meningitis. The MenACWY vaccine helps protect you against four different causes of meningitis and septicaemia; meningococcal groups A, C, W and Y disease.
They may have had the vaccine, but they used to use a jab just for meningitis C, but the other three types are included in it now. "
THIS! It's essential.
I made the big one get it last year as he's off to uni this September too.
It was included in the recent vaccinations for the Year 9 ones.
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"Tuck some condoms in when he’s not looking. He will appreciate that and it saves him some embarrassment. "
And instructions to get to the GUM and get tested regularly.
I know I embarrass the ones in my life but the older ones are now in the habit of going.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Tuck some condoms in when he’s not looking. He will appreciate that and it saves him some embarrassment. "
I've stuffed my teenagers sock drawer full of condoms |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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You need the bare minimum.
1 plate.
1 bowl
knife and fork.
1 spoon.
1 kitchen knife.
glasses
plastic tubs/tupperware
toiletries
1 pot
1 frying pan
bed sheets etc
plasters
condoms and things for safe sex
any medication
and most importantly...
a BOTTLE OPENER/can opener
that's pretty much all you need.
Halls have everything? Which fancy halls did you all stay in! My halls didn't have anything in terms of cutlery or things like that.
Halls that provide meals? I don't think it's worth it, you have to be there in the morning at a certain time for breakfast etc, what if you don't have morning lectures and want to sleep in? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Go onto amazon and get a slow cooker cookbook and/or a student cook book. Helped a few of my friends out.
If the uni is ages away from family a wee family photo or somthing as a we moral boost during hard Times.
And a crate of beer or a bottle of preffered spirits to break the ice with new flat mates |
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By *irthandgirth OP Man
over a year ago
Camberley occasionally doncaster |
"Wipes
Seriously- flash wipes
Ah, no. Her mother had an obsession with wipes. They don't get anything clean! They just smear dirt living an antibac film. Hot soapy water every time..
Are you saying I live in a dirty smear antibacterial film "
Not at all, but you will never see a chef wipe his kitchen down with wipes.. |
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"There is a vaccine they recommend students have to protect against meningitis. The MenACWY vaccine helps protect you against four different causes of meningitis and septicaemia; meningococcal groups A, C, W and Y disease.
They may have had the vaccine, but they used to use a jab just for meningitis C, but the other three types are included in it now.
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Yes, Yes, Yes...
My daughter got meningitis last year in her first year. It was scary!
Educate them about the above also, it was Blossom's friends that actually saved her, getting her into hospital. |
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I’d say easy things like noodles and can foods. When you are skint and have gone bankrupt from your overdraft as a student that is blessed. Washing powder, soap/cleaning products like bleach etc. And money truthfully every once and a while aha |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Not me.. my sproglet has grown up and is off to Uni this sept. Having never gone to uni, I want to help her out, get her a starter kit for living away from home for the first time.
Writing a list of things to get. I have gotten as far as:
Bedding (2 sets) + duvet and mattress topper
Kitchen stuff including -
Knife block
Chopping boards
Slow cooker
Basic utensils
Mixing bowls
Couple of saucepan
Wok
Frying pan
Anything else I should be considering? Sensible suggestions please.. "
Condoms and lots of them ahahah |
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"Wipes
Seriously- flash wipes
Ah, no. Her mother had an obsession with wipes. They don't get anything clean! They just smear dirt living an antibac film. Hot soapy water every time.."
A couple of packs of cheap cleaning cloths and either soapy water or spray. Cloths go in the wash after a few days or when noticeably discoloured. |
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Some great ideas so far!!
When I took my daughter, we had bought a few things but waited till we got there. Made a list and went shopping in the local town, surprising how many basic things you need but there will be stuff there and no need for everyone to have sets of the same things! For their room, a collapsible clothes drier and hangers are probably needed plus the relevant bedding etc. Oh, A good reading / working light for when they are studying - long arm type, desk light!
Make sure they enjoy the experience and be safe! |
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Write out favourite family recipes, mostly cheap ones. Gives her something to remind her of home. If necessary, also basic cooking instructions so she doesn't make herself sick.
Don't skimp too much on a sharp knife and a can opener.
Big strong bag for carrying laundry down to the machines.
Toiletries bag for shared showers.
Reusable coffee cup and water bottle: the former, some places offer discounts for bringing your own mug, the latter, lots of bottle refills and she'll save a fortune. |
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... Oh!
If she's doing a course involving writing, a (hard copy) dictionary, thesaurus, and writing/ style guide. Possibly consider something like a specialist dictionary for the subject if a relatively inexpensive one exists. Knowing the basics of communicating correctly can (unfortunately) give you a real edge. |
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