10 Dorm Room Must Haves!

I am still in shock that this is the last week of summer for everyone in my area. My boss has taken off to spend time with her kids. The teenagers across the street are spending every single free moment working on their tans and playing in the pool. My teacher friends all reported their dreaded return to school on Facebook yesterday. Where in the world did summer go? Seriously… hello September?! My brain is still stuck in spring, while my calendar is telling me we are entering fall and it’s Back-to-School Glory. I don’t care who you are… there is something exciting about “Back to School” time. Go ahead and call me a nerd, but personally, entering the stores and seeing the fresh notebooks, new pens, and colorful planners brings me joy. So when Kleenex and Walmart reached out to 2 cats & chloe, asking me to write a little piece on the Top 10 Dorm Must-Haves I was a little pumped. I mean, who doesn’t want to pretend that they are packing up and heading back to college! This post brought back a lot of fun JMU college memories! Memories of Freshman year, on the 8th floor of the tallest building in Harrisonburg, with no AC. Memories of hiliarous times with my roomies, who became friends for life. Memories of riding the bus to the old Walmart in Harrisonburg… and then waiting for that same bus to come back hours later while we lugged all of our purchases {and a few betta fish} back to the dorm.

Kleenex Expressions Oval Facial Tissue Chevron Designs //

Headphones // Coffee Maker // Travel Mug // Colorful Mini Fridge // Vacuum // Fun Curtains // A Bathroom Caddy // Disk Chair // Chevron Towel Set

I had no clue how colorful the Back-to-School gear has gotten. Seriously! They have colorful mini refrigerators now?! Personally, I think everything on the list above is great - but I want to give a couple of shout outs… First of all, the disk chair. This may seem like a silly looking chair, but when you have a ton of friends stopping in to your tiny dorm room, this chair will be perfect. OR, let’s say that you buy one, like I did, that has a slight squeak to it… it is exactly what you need to drive your roomie crazy! {Amanda - wink wink} Or maybe you will be blessed with a loud typing roommate. {It’s a condition, I swear!} You are going to thoroughly thank me for recommending headphones. Some of us just cannot help our typing volume.

The Kleenex Expressions Oval Facial Tissues in Chevron Designs… You are going to get sick. It’s college. It’s germy. And you may be just like me and have a roommate who forces you to wash your hands all the time, who sprays the television remote with cleaner, and who teaches you the proper way to cough. She will make you use tissues, so you may as well buy these. The design and pattern of the box makes them cute enough to leave on your desk all the time. Heck, I am well beyond a dorm room but these Kleenex tissues are sitting on my desk!

What memories do you have of your college dorm? Do you have any tips for must-have items? What are your favorite roommate memories? Thank you Walmart and Kleenex for sponsoring today’s post, and bring back some fun dorm room memories!