Not only is #2 Son anxious to bug out of this hellhole town we live in(hellhole according to him....I much prefer to call it provincial on my better days), but I may be a wee bit anxious to get him out of the house too.
I started writing out my hard copy of the "College List" last Friday.
You know.....The master list of "what every college kid might ever need when they leave home" List that Sonya Ann and friends came up with before her oldest went off to college 4 years ago.
So I started gathering supplies for #2 Son that I have already.......
The boy does like to do ALOT of laundry.
I got these Purex Complete 3 in 1 laundry sheets back when they were new on the market and when Couponing was in it's Salad Days-when there were awesome coupons and sales and few limits and you could get shit free or almost free.
You know, the good old days.
I have enough sheets here sitting in the linen closet for #2 Son to do 224 loads of laundry.
I hope it will last him all 4 years.
I just discovered that the dorms where he will be living have free laundry! He won't even need quarters.
Sweet.
A quick calculation and I figure with the water and electricity he alone will be using to do laundry nonstop on their dime vs. on our dime, the housing costs we have to pay are a win for US!!!
So he is covered on detergent.
And also covered on toiletries-deodorant, shampoo, soap/bodywash, toothpaste, toothbrushes.
He has an electric razor so the hairy face stuff is taken care of too.
While we were on vacation in April and then when we got home a week or so ago, I hit the Winter clothing clearance sales at Kmart. We just happened to be in a KMart in Shreveport and found men's winter clothing for $2.99 a piece. Then the next week when we were home I went into the local KMart here and the clothing was down to $1.99 a piece.
So of course I picked up some clothes for #2 Son to take to college with him.
It doesn't look like much since I just heaped it up on the spare bed for these photos.
Everything was either $2.99 or $1.99, except for the black coat which was $7.99 marked down from $60.
Score!
I got him long sleeved knit shirts, fleece PJ pants, longish Joe Boxer boxers, 3 casual dress shirts, a minky lined flannel jacket(original price of $24.99) and 2 pair of thermal underwear.
It's even colder than here in the Winter where he's going to school. 8-)
They also had 6 packs of men's boxer briefs on sale for $5.99 in his size. Somebody must have mis-ordered because they had hundreds of this size in this style/brand of undies.
I had picked up at Ollies(Good Stuff Cheap!)a multipack of the socks he likes over the Winter for $2.99.
Between the Kmart score, the undies and sox, he is all set for going away to college clothing...unless of course, he wears out/grows out of his pants.
I wrote this and then went and read Sonya Ann's Post today. Go read toward the middle of hers.
We really do think alike and lead lives in a parallel universe, don't we? ;-)
We finally have a date now for when #2 Son will go sailing off into the sunset.
Freshman Check-In is August 21st.
I am synchronizing my watch as I type.
100 days and counting!!!
The countdown has begun.
Sluggy
I started writing out my hard copy of the "College List" last Friday.
You know.....The master list of "what every college kid might ever need when they leave home" List that Sonya Ann and friends came up with before her oldest went off to college 4 years ago.
So I started gathering supplies for #2 Son that I have already.......
The boy does like to do ALOT of laundry.
I got these Purex Complete 3 in 1 laundry sheets back when they were new on the market and when Couponing was in it's Salad Days-when there were awesome coupons and sales and few limits and you could get shit free or almost free.
You know, the good old days.
I have enough sheets here sitting in the linen closet for #2 Son to do 224 loads of laundry.
I hope it will last him all 4 years.
I just discovered that the dorms where he will be living have free laundry! He won't even need quarters.
Sweet.
A quick calculation and I figure with the water and electricity he alone will be using to do laundry nonstop on their dime vs. on our dime, the housing costs we have to pay are a win for US!!!
So he is covered on detergent.
And also covered on toiletries-deodorant, shampoo, soap/bodywash, toothpaste, toothbrushes.
He has an electric razor so the hairy face stuff is taken care of too.
While we were on vacation in April and then when we got home a week or so ago, I hit the Winter clothing clearance sales at Kmart. We just happened to be in a KMart in Shreveport and found men's winter clothing for $2.99 a piece. Then the next week when we were home I went into the local KMart here and the clothing was down to $1.99 a piece.
So of course I picked up some clothes for #2 Son to take to college with him.
It doesn't look like much since I just heaped it up on the spare bed for these photos.
Everything was either $2.99 or $1.99, except for the black coat which was $7.99 marked down from $60.
Score!
I got him long sleeved knit shirts, fleece PJ pants, longish Joe Boxer boxers, 3 casual dress shirts, a minky lined flannel jacket(original price of $24.99) and 2 pair of thermal underwear.
It's even colder than here in the Winter where he's going to school. 8-)
They also had 6 packs of men's boxer briefs on sale for $5.99 in his size. Somebody must have mis-ordered because they had hundreds of this size in this style/brand of undies.
Between the Kmart score, the undies and sox, he is all set for going away to college clothing...unless of course, he wears out/grows out of his pants.
I wrote this and then went and read Sonya Ann's Post today. Go read toward the middle of hers.
We really do think alike and lead lives in a parallel universe, don't we? ;-)
We finally have a date now for when #2 Son will go sailing off into the sunset.
Freshman Check-In is August 21st.
I am synchronizing my watch as I type.
100 days and counting!!!
The countdown has begun.
Sluggy
