What's the One Thing they don't tell you to pack...
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Original post by charlotte-rose
My list:
1. A spare mobile phone is a Godsend. Take it out when you go out, and if you lose it it doesn't matter too much. Also very handy for having people ask for your number and you never intending to call them
2. Random bits of string, blue-tack, scissors, a marker pen etc. Amazing how these come in useful for last-minute fancy dress. Breezers box + scissors + hole punch + string + marker = superhero mask.
3. As previously said, medicine. You will not want to walk to nearest shop to get Lemsip when you need it
4. Masking tape. For the time you get bored and will find it funny to tape over the entrace to someone's room in many layers, trapping them from the inside.
1. A spare mobile phone is a Godsend. Take it out when you go out, and if you lose it it doesn't matter too much. Also very handy for having people ask for your number and you never intending to call them
2. Random bits of string, blue-tack, scissors, a marker pen etc. Amazing how these come in useful for last-minute fancy dress. Breezers box + scissors + hole punch + string + marker = superhero mask.
3. As previously said, medicine. You will not want to walk to nearest shop to get Lemsip when you need it
4. Masking tape. For the time you get bored and will find it funny to tape over the entrace to someone's room in many layers, trapping them from the inside.
I've just bought a cheap £10 phone for nights out!
Original post by Tom B.
I am planning to take a desktop PC (amongst other things), I think i'll pack everything that isn't the main tower away and just take the tower in the car with me (worried about components becoming loose etc).
thing is we dont have a car and I'm thinking the only way to take everything is to get a small van or something for the day
A 'big dish' i.e. bigger than just for eating cereal/soup etc, for if you fancy making a jelly or something, so you don't have to fill your fridge with all your little dishes and a jug...
Plasters, for if your flatmates keep accidentally cutting their feet and putting blood on the carpet...
Enough pins for your huge noticeboard
A cushion for your oddly uncomfy desk chair! Also useful when carrying a cushion back to uni with you after visiting your grandma and sitting on the farmfoods bag containing the cushion when some ponce turfs you out of a seat cos they're rich enough to have reserved it!
Plasters, for if your flatmates keep accidentally cutting their feet and putting blood on the carpet...
Enough pins for your huge noticeboard
A cushion for your oddly uncomfy desk chair! Also useful when carrying a cushion back to uni with you after visiting your grandma and sitting on the farmfoods bag containing the cushion when some ponce turfs you out of a seat cos they're rich enough to have reserved it!
more money 
cant go to the gym and cant go out gets lonely uno
cant go to the gym and cant go out gets lonely uno
Original post by senator88
I'm not there yet but, a pack of cards
OMG that is it!! A pack of cards is great for pre drinking games and ring of fire.
I seem to have forgotten my shaver adapter which was kinda stupid. So yeah, a shaver plug adapter!
Original post by PeoplesChampion
I seem to have forgotten my shaver adapter which was kinda stupid. So yeah, a shaver plug adapter!
push a screwdriver into the TOP of the three pins of a 3 pin uk socket. them just push the 2 pin shaving plug into the bottom 2 reall hard
allways works
and the top pin has no electricity in it lol- by pushing the top pin in it allows something to enter the other 2 lol
Original post by Pi!
Original post by Pi!
My sister's leaving for uni in September and for her birthday in August I'm filling up a shoebox with nice, useful things for uni like sweets, pens, sellotape, a doorstop and some other stuff. This thread is helpful.
I was thinking of doing the exact same thing for a friend of mine who will be going off to uni next year!
*subscribes*
Original post by foxyamy
Earplugs in case your next door flatmate:
a) has sex at all hours of day and night
b) plays the same depressing radiohead song over and over again on full volume until you're convinced they're using it to mask the sounds of the knife on their wrists
a) has sex at all hours of day and night
b) plays the same depressing radiohead song over and over again on full volume until you're convinced they're using it to mask the sounds of the knife on their wrists
I'm pretty sure one of people types of people will be me, most probably b)...
Original post by kerily
Top tip: there is no need to bring washing up liquid. Everyone on my corridor brought washing up liquid, and now we have 8 different varieties for 8 of us. People laugh when they come into our kitchen 
In our kitchen, people didn't bring washing up liquid so a couple of the people who did hid theirs so that the ones who didn't couldn't just use the stuff that was there without paying for their own =| you never know who you'll be sharing with - better to be safe than sorry :L
Original post by kerily
Top tip: there is no need to bring washing up liquid. Everyone on my corridor brought washing up liquid, and now we have 8 different varieties for 8 of us. People laugh when they come into our kitchen
Ah this was the case with us too
D, there were 14 of us and a load of washing up liquid! It was quite funny actually. When they all ran out it wasnt the same, and it was a pain running out of washing up liquid with none spare. So i'd say still bring it, but if there are a few out put yours away till its needed, thats if you dont mind sharing .
Original post by kerily
Top tip: there is no need to bring washing up liquid. Everyone on my corridor brought washing up liquid, and now we have 8 different varieties for 8 of us. People laugh when they come into our kitchen
We all forgot to bring some, so there's a constant shortage in our flat.
Can openers, cake tins (there'll always be a time someone wants to bake!), doorstops - though you might end up hiding them if the kitchen door is propped open, and you get woken up every night by people having a 3am curry following a night out
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