what to take to student accommodation?

Bin bags and starter food box, sorry

I was amazed at how small DS's room was in Halls last year. It was supposedly a double en suite, quite pricey, with communal kitchen/diner/sitting room.

There was very little storage space, so don't give them too many pots, pans and crockery. I think a couple of pots, a frying pan, and a baking tray is handy. Plates, bowls, cooking utensils and cutlery, tea towels, washing up stuff, laundry stuff and an airer, are all essential. Bob bags. A starter pod box. Lol rols, kitchen roll. Toiletries and first aid kit.

Also the bed was a small double so we had to exchange the bedding we'd bought!

The 'en suite ' was a pod, a teeny tiny pod, so very little space to even hang towels.

I would say it’s worth getting kitchen ‘essentials’ like a mug, a few bits of cutlery and a few plates and bowls; maybe a cheap saucepan, frying pan and baking tray from somewhere like Ikea for a few quid. For anything else it’s worth waiting until he has moved in, we ended up with loads of cheese graters etc where everyone had brought 1! Definitely wouldn’t recommend spending too much on them though, mine lasted me through uni but I had no desire to take them with me afterwards so we left them for the new tenants. In terms of bedroom stuff, the usual duvet, pillows, sheets etc- ideally 2 full sets so don’t have to be doing washing all of the time. Again, can always buy stuff when there so maybe focus on the home comforts stuff he wants to take that would be impossible to buy😊