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Stationary Box: Um, no one uses letters in college. Its all email, the only thing that gets mailed is the rent.

Caller ID System: No intelligent college student has a landline. It's all about the cell phone. Landlines are useless (and pricey) for a college student.

Wireless Mouse: Ok, this is useful. Just make sure to get rechargable batteries.

iPod Alarm Clock: This may work for girls, but guys need a stereo system. The wattage on these things can't handle a room full of drunk kids, and lets face it, thats all that matters.

An actual dorm room has a Twin bed, every college student upgrades to a Full or Queen when they move off campus. Spending good cash on twin sheets is just bad money sense. Good sheets are nice, but later in life.

Digital Photo Receiver: What?! The guys don't care about pictures and girls like to hang them all over their room, not connect them to a computer to see one that changes every x minutes. Maybe the parents want their kid to send THEM photos through this thing. But college is really all about drunk photos, which don't go over well with parents that think their little princess wasn't THAT girl puking on herself at the PGP party last weekend.

TriPort Headphones: These are nice if you don't mind people that walk by your room thinking that you are about to go on a space mission. These things are HUGE.

Vintage Vending Machine: Wow, it holds cans of soda. But can it chill a handle of vodka? Um, nope. Well congrats you just spent 150 dollars on something that takes up valuable space and cant hide my booze.

iPod Backpack: A big backpack that allows you to change songs. Riiiight. I'll stick with my North Face backpack.

Bathrobe: This is a 50/50 item, because robes are practical in the winter time, however, if your room is crazy small it may not be able to dry, creating mold and just making your life suck that much more. However, if it works for your room, then go for it. Plus, it makes the guys feel like pimps.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think that 90% of this list is just crap. Cheers :)

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Luxuries? All these things do is take up space, waste my time, and aren't even worth half the money.

The "luxury" that irked me the most was the bubblegume PINK caller ID. Don't you know that most phones *come* with caller ID right on the phone or the base (if it's cordless). And that comes all for $20-$30!!! It's not a luxury to have to look at a separate machine to know who is calling and then pick up the phone, not to mention wasting valuable cramming/drinking/television-watching/partying time!! What an inconvenience.

If you want to talk about luxuries, try:

1. adding other furniture (chairs, couches) - thereby increasing the functionality of your room from a house cubicle to a semi-living space;

2. central air conditioning that is individually controlled;

3. a rug so a linoleum floor with a temperature of near absolute zero doesn't greet you every morning;

4. CDs, floppy disks, zip drives, and an external hard drive to make sure the hard work you did on your papers doesn't go into the digital graveyard;

5. having an awesome computer/laptop to begin with (if you're talking about luxuries, try the 17" MacBook Pro w/ Intel Core Duo - it's around $2500!!!);

6. a good TV - like a plasma.

7. how about a candy/coffee vending machine??? goodness knows that college kids are up all night, whether it be for papers or parties. You've got to stay awake SOME kind of way (unless you want to push them to harder drugs);

8. What about that video game rocker chair that also plays music from your iPod, as well as sends vibrations from the DualShock controllers throughout the entire chair?

There. And i've only promoted three things. at least i know they're worth the money, and your college student will be greatful for it (they also wouldn't mind you paying tuiton too, parents!). ]]>Aug 18th 2006 7:14PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2006/08/16/little-luxuries-for-dorms/http://www.luxist.com/2006/08/16/little-luxuries-for-dorms/Aug 21st 2006 9:23PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2006/08/16/little-luxuries-for-dorms/http://www.luxist.com/2006/08/16/little-luxuries-for-dorms/Aug 21st 2006 9:41PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2006/08/16/little-luxuries-for-dorms/http://www.luxist.com/2006/08/16/little-luxuries-for-dorms/Your kids need to learn to get along with a minimum of material luxuries at this stage in their lives. It frees up the mind!
College is not like high school. Time is the most valuable commodity.
I once met a rich young man with an awesome collection of stuff he traveled with: (He was an expert birder.) A battered quality telescope. ONE change of underwear. One toothbrush. One credit card. That's it. The model for traveling light.]]>Aug 21st 2006 10:13PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2006/08/16/little-luxuries-for-dorms/http://www.luxist.com/2006/08/16/little-luxuries-for-dorms/
For refrigeration, I'll stick with whatever works and isn't filthy.

For audio, I'll stick with my Sony ES component setup that I already have earned and built up over the years with my own hands and ingenuity. Not to be confused with regular Sony, Sony ES is equivalent to Denon or Harman/Kardon. Puts iPod's, and many other systems for that matter, so-called "excellent" sound quality to absolute shame. But, do I party with it? Well, I guess so if that includes reviewing Enya or Mozart at my personal leisure on uncompressed CDs and LPs. But, it's awful fun to play videogames and watch great movies in digital surround sound as well. (And, it's defense is, well, "Kimber" in a private apartment. As for walking out with it, you could do it, but it'd be awfully conspicuous to be carrying out a 50 LBS. receiver, among other things, and that's if you manage to undo all the connections in time without being caught and have a new hole to spit gum out of.)

Speaking of portable, I'd rather use my Sony NetMD player. If the player breaks, my collections are on seperate discs and not on a hard drive within the player. All I'd have to do is buy a new player and not fret over a lost collection and/or waiting weeks for Apple to fix/replace my iPod.

As for a clock radio, all I want is something that will wake me! My $10 Sony clock radio is more than sufficient.

As for phones, if you already have cellular, it's all you need. The only choice in this case would be CDMA (Verizon, Alltel, Sprint PCS) or GSM (Verizon, T-Mobile, Vodaphone [if you're not in North America]). The only landlines you'd need are for cable and broadband internet (and if you have broadband, as tempting as it may seem, DON'T get VoIP, such as Vonage; in addition to being a waste of money, you'll lose your phone service if you lose your broadband for whatever reason). As for my phone, if you're thinking that I've got a Sony Ericsson, good guess but, no: Motorola.

For computers, heck, I've built my own. I have an old Dell as a DOS machine, which is strictly for old DOS games. The WinXP, on the other hand, is a no-label Athlon XP that I built up myself. The laptop: an old Toshiba Pentium III, which gets the job done. - Reinhart]]>Aug 21st 2006 10:16PM