Living in University Halls

Serj · 20 Aug 2006 at 23:24

I've got my own house that i'm sharing with a mate this year. Gonna be awesome, going down to decorate a little bit and furnish it in a couple of weeks. :cool:

Raymond Lin · 20 Aug 2006 at 23:25

Cobra said:
Mintage, this all sounds ace.

Anyone else going to Newcastle?

Someone who's bored, please write me out a shopping list of stuff to take with me? As in stuff I wouldn't think off, like.....bog roll....and.....you know... other carp.

And any reason why taking my guitar would be a bad idea?

Page 2 on this thread has a list for things around halls, as for things to bring.

I'll give it a go

1 - Loo Rolls, pack of 12, kitchen towel
2 - Forks, knife, spoon, mugs, pint glass, pot, pan, chopping board, sharp knife
3 - Bed sheets x 2, pillow covers
4 - a desk lamp
5 - Computer, printer
6 - Food, whatever you like really
7 - Washing up liquid and clothes washing powder
8 - laundry basket for your dirty clothes, otherwise it'll just sit in the corner
9 - toothbrush, shower gel, shampoo. Just look at the loo in your house
10 - extra pillows
11 - something to play music with, i wont take something worth thousands, but not a £10 battery power radio either.
12 - alarm clock
13 - Extension Blocks - Important
14 - Bluetac
15 - Change, lots of it
16 - Don't pack your entire wardrobe, you'll never need it all. Pack Coat hangers
17 - Flip flops for around the flat
18 - Alcohol, saves you finding a place that sells it once you get there, since you don't know the town.
19 - Your Home Keys, so you can get home ! Imagine you travel 200 miles back home to realise you never took your keys to uni with you
20 - Digital camera
21 - Condoms

Atari · 20 Aug 2006 at 23:26

gurdas said:
Try living in a £116 p/w box with no ensuite....thing is, I loved it

I don't know how you managed it. I doubt I could live at uni with a group of total strangers (for the first few weeks anyway), having to share a bathroom with everyone else.

Mind, my ensuite was terrible. Moulded plastic EVERYWHERE!. The floors, walls, shower 'curtain', and toilet were all made out of plastic. Add to that the fact that my toilet was disgustingly close to my shower. Had it not been for that shower curtain device, I'd have been able to use the toilet, and shower at the same time. I kid you not.

Gotta love student halls

lemonkettaz · 20 Aug 2006 at 23:28

will i need a hoover?

Raymond Lin · 20 Aug 2006 at 23:29

Atari said:
I don't know how you managed it. I doubt I could live at uni with a group of total strangers (for the first few weeks anyway), having to share a bathroom with everyone else.

Mind, my ensuite was terrible. Moulded plastic EVERYWHERE!. The floors, walls, shower 'curtain', and toilet were all made out of plastic. Add to that the fact that my toilet was disgustingly close to my shower. Had it not been for that shower curtain device, I'd have been able to use the toilet, and shower at the same time. I kid you not.

Gotta love student halls

You sure it is not a "wet" toilet? Where the floor share the same floor as the toilet?

Atari · 20 Aug 2006 at 23:29

lemonkettaz said:
will i need a hoover?

Most likely it'll be included as part of your flat.

Raymond Lin · 20 Aug 2006 at 23:30

lemonkettaz said:
will i need a hoover?

No, there is one in halls. It is usually pap mind you (and 9/10 i bet it is a Henry

), ours sucked

but one of the girls had one of her own and we all borrowed it.

Atari · 20 Aug 2006 at 23:30

Raymond Lin said:
You sure it is not a "wet" toilet? Where the floor share the same floor as the toilet?

Nope, was far to small for that. The shower floor was also below the level of the rest of the bathroom.

yer_averagejoe · 20 Aug 2006 at 23:32

Raymond Lin said:
No, there is one in halls. It is usually pap mind you (and 9/10 i bet it is a Henry ), ours sucked but one of the girls had one of her own and we all borrowed it.

We had a henry! and I'll have you know a henry can down a sink full of water in 4 seconds.

Your try it.

lemonkettaz · 20 Aug 2006 at 23:33

hmmm... i wont bother with a hoover then.

dont want to send the wrong impressions straight off.

well my pink and black wrist bands wont help...

lemonkettaz · 20 Aug 2006 at 23:33

henry?

Raymond Lin · 20 Aug 2006 at 23:34

yer_averagejoe said:
We had a henry! and I'll have you know a henry can down a sink full of water in 4 seconds.

Your try it.

I didn't want to risk my deposit for that

benjo plz. · 20 Aug 2006 at 23:34

Raymond Lin said:
ours sucked

It's a hoover.... it's supposed to suck!

Zogger · 20 Aug 2006 at 23:34

yer_averagejoe said:
We had a henry! and I'll have you know a henry can down a sink full of water in 4 seconds.

But can it handle beer?

We had a cleaner in halls. She came round every week and got henry out of the cupboard (which we didn't have a key too).

Problem was she always turned up while I was still in bed half the time.

Raymond Lin · 20 Aug 2006 at 23:34

lemonkettaz said:
henry?

lemonkettaz · 20 Aug 2006 at 23:35

Raymond Lin said:

aww man...

quality, i hope henry pays me a visit

yer_averagejoe · 20 Aug 2006 at 23:40

yeah our cleaner usually came round while i was wandering around in my underwear... henry is a legend.

remember to give your cleaner a box of chocolates if she cleans puke out off your bath and floor and walls of the bathroom..

Raymond Lin · 20 Aug 2006 at 23:41

yer_averagejoe said:
yeah our cleaner usually came round while i was wandering around in my underwear... henry is a legend.

remember to give your cleaner a box of chocolates if she cleans puke out off your bath and floor and walls of the bathroom..

Someone threw up in the stairs in ours and it reeked for days, no one owned up to it.

SoSolid · 20 Aug 2006 at 23:41

lemonkettaz said:
aww man...

quality, i hope henry pays me a visit

My dad has just bought a Henry, albeit to hoover the inside of UPS's that he repairs but yeh I love him.

Zogger · 20 Aug 2006 at 23:42

yer_averagejoe said:
remember to give your cleaner a box of chocolates if she cleans puke out off your bath and floor and walls of the bathroom..

lol. I think that may have happened once on the corridor opposite us.

SoSolid said:
My dad has just bought a Henry, albeit to hoover the inside of UPS's that he repairs but yeh I love him.

Nice to see you get along well with your father