Dorm haul!

From time to time (okay, maybe once a week until school starts), I'll post a dorm haul. This will just give other incoming freshmen like me a look at what other people are packing/buying in preparation for living alone!

I still have another month before I move in, but since June, I've been chomping at the bit to get packed and buy everything. (Which I don't recommend, as a lot of school stuff and especially, dorm stuff, goes on sale closer to the start of the school year). I've been looking at tons of packing lists and trying to decide what all I want, and what I will actually need, come fall.

For now, I'll just put up some things that I picked up over the weekend. At my graduation open house, I got some bedding basics like: a comforter, towels (SO MANY TOWELS!), blanket, pop-up laundry hamper, and a throw rug. Michigan State University has a laundry deal where you can get free sheets, pillowcase, and towels and exchange them weekly, so I haven't decided if I'll actually buy my own sheets.

For now, though, I've just been stocking up on some organizing supplies. These two were from Target, in the dollar section. They're just simple Hello Kitty storage containers. They're great because you can use them either for food (the lid fits tightly on the right one, so water/juice will not leak out) or to hold little trinkets.

And everything in this picture is from Family Dollar. I know, maybe some people have a problem with the dollar store? However, I don't know about you, but I am now a poor college student, so I really do not mind buying my stuff anywhere that is cheap.

A storage container. It has a cute handle at the top, and all of the containers detach. I thought it was one of the 3-drawer containers, but it actually comes apart. All of the items I bought came in this pink color, a lime green, and a turquoise-y blue. This was $2.50, but everything else was $1.

A shower caddy. It said "oval container with two handles," but I could see it working as a perfect shower caddy. It has holes on the sides, so just tipping it slightly will drain out any and all water that falls in.

A four-pack of mini storage containers. My sister told me that I should have some storage containers in case I want to take fruit or something out of the dorms. 

A two-pack of flip lid storage jars (in the same bright pink as the rest). You can never have enough storage containers?

So that's all for storage, for now. Now that it's almost August, I'll pick up more stuff and post it! I'm going to be living in Akers, in a quad-style (with 3 other girls) room, so I can't pack a lot. (The dorm assignment is just tentative. It was on my StuInfo, but I won't find out officially until around August 8th. Fingers crossed that I'm not actually in Akers!!)

Till next time!
-Rakuzen