Unexpected necessities for a student house

Student living. Your first taste of independence. No parents, no bedtimes, no responsibility. Unfortunately however, self-determinate living comes with a price. When assembling a student house, there are a few key items that are often left off the packing lists but prove themselves to be absolutely fundamental in their absence.

Cutlery separator

An item that is not only necessary, but also near impossible to find when you realise that you need it. During the 3 week period that you await the arrival of the one your mum ordered you off amazon however, you can expect your cutlery draw to become a black hole of pain, suffering and confusion. Is there one last fork in there? You will never know…

It’s the fork that counts

Flash spray

Having left the dizzying heights of student accommodation, (complete with supplied toilet roll, weekly cleaners and the mystical “clothes-drying machine”), many students have to learn about cleaning products for the first time when entering their second-year houses. When your mum is coming to visit, you may need something like this to address the worst public health issues that may have arisen in your bathroom.

Spruce Springclean

Oven trays

Chips. Pizzas. Chicken nuggets. Potato smileys. The very sustenance that keep the student population alive and drinking. And what else is it that they all have in common, I hear you ask? One piece of very under-valued cooking equipment.

Tray-spotting

Washing up liquid

Perhaps not as much of an unexpected necessity in itself, but instead an item that you never thought you’d need to buy so regularly. Whether no one in your house ever seems to wash up, or whether you buy your Fairy liquid in bulk, it always seems to be on the shopping list at the end of the week while you clean your dinner dishes with hand soap.

Who you calling a fairy?

Food

The feeling of opening a fridge door and finding inside a wealth of snacks and treats is that of unparalleled ecstasy. That however, is a pleasure usually only find on those desperate weekend trips home with a duffle bag full of washing and an empty stomach. When you’ve drunk your weekly budgets for the next month in the East Slope Bar of a Tuesday night, it’s hard to find a time when you open your fridge to anything less than a 3 month-old parsnip and a bottle of soy sauce.

Cool fridge

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