What should you bring to your student housing?

So you’ve completed your year in halls and are now moving into a new place with your friends, but what do you need to bring? 

It’s always a bit of a kerfuffle when you end up with six toasters, four kettles, and the odd slow cooker. 

We’ve pulled together a brief list of what you should and shouldn’t need as essentials when moving in; everything else can be figured out as a group as you go.

Do’s; 

• Duvet, Pillow, and Linen
• Mattress Protector
• Tech – Laptops, Consoles, TV
• Your clothes
• Textbooks
• Identification
• Toiletries
• Laundry Basket
• Cutlery – Check with your roommate about storage, though. Do you want six drawers filled with knives and forks?
• Crockery – Check with your roommates again. There will be space. It just depends on if you want to share. 

Dont’s 

• Kettle
• Toaster
• Desk – This is normally provided. Make sure to double-check. 
• Hoover
• Mob
• Dustpan & Brush

Negotiate: By this, we mean pop it in the group chat. No one needs 60 toilet rolls and four bottles of surface spray.

• Toilet Roll 
• Cleaning Supplies
• Kitchen Utensils – Colanders, jugs, teatowels, saucepans.

You’re working with limited space, so anything that isn’t for your room will be in a communal area, and you don’t want to fill it too much.