Maximizing Dorm Space: Essential Tips for College Students
Discover practical tips and essential items to help college students organize and maximize their small dorm spaces efficiently.
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Organizing ideas for those tiny dorm rooms
Added on 09/27/2024
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Speaker 1: I know what Debbie Hernandez in the his a once again, my friend and we are talking about college and your brilliant children. Yeah, they are brilliant, but let's talk about what to do because there's so many. It's overwhelming and it's a small space.

Speaker 2: It is. And you know, in the first segment, we talked about things that you may or may not have remembered that just make their life a little easier to have on hand. And this is about organizing and getting all your stuff to fit in that small space. So this system is called Closet Max. And you've seen, you know, a lot of different units like this where you just hang it on the closet rod and there's different components that you can get. Now, when you get a closet in a dorm room, you know, you may have three feet. So you really want to maximize it. So a couple of pieces that can really help and I'm not suggesting you get all of these. These are just options. So one like this will give you a lot of extra space. But also there's drawers that come that you can fit inside. So we got a little drawer here for like the shoe organizer. And then there's big ones for this. And then this is a double rod. It hangs right on the rod and gives you a second row of hanging space. So and then thin hangers are always a great option.

Speaker 1: The velvet hangers. People always talk about these. Yes.

Speaker 2: And those are going to hold your clothes nicely and they don't take up a lot of space width wise. Okay. So you can use more garments. So keep that in mind. And then in most dorm rooms, they don't let you nail anything into the walls. So command strips, command hooks, Velcro, all of those little things are going to make your organization a lot easier. So a couple electronic items to keep in mind. You want to make sure you remember to take your surge protector. Okay. It also gives you multiple outlets. So it will protect their computers and give you access to other things. Yeah. This is an organization lamp. It's called an iMap. And you want to use it as your desk light. And then you can put your pencils, pens, sticky notes. It's also a phone charger or it has two plugs for anything you want on the back. And then also, this is something that I absolutely recommend for all students. It's a portable charger. Okay. So if they're out anywhere and they run out of juice, they have this. And this will last quite a few hours, about eight hours for a tablet or a laptop or a phone. So there are some that can power all of them. We were talking about the security camera. I wanted to show this innocently so that kids can, from their app, outside of their room, check on their things. But apparently, other people have other ideas that parents would want to spy on their children. Maybe. And that never even crossed my mind. I'm just putting that out there.

Speaker 1: So your kids have one of these in their rooms right now and they had no idea until now.

Speaker 2: You could put that in their room and they can monitor their room for themselves. Yes. And then, you know, there's Alexa, there's Google Home. If they want, you know, something like that, those are kind of luxurious items. The one thing I want to mention appliance-wise, at Home Depot, we've got everything you need for your dorm. Microwaves, mini fridges, fans, water coolers. Another item that's essential is a little safe. We either have a lockbox or a little digital safe that is really going to keep whatever they need, you know, secure and safe for, you know, the term.

Speaker 1: Yes, for the term, for the semester because, you know, it all starts now in college. It all starts now. We'll be right back, Arizona.

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