Don't pack just nice clothes and swimsuits. You'll want to be comfy on your car ride of flight!
You won't want to mix your clean & dirty clothes in all one bag, so make sure you bring a trash bag (or other sorts of holders) for your dirty clothes!
You let your pets outside on a sunny spring day and they return to you covered in pollen and ragweed. Ugh! What should you do? Brush your pets off with a damp rag before you let them back inside!
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When you get home after a long day, resist the urge to take a quick nap in your clothes! Pollen clings to your clothes and will rub off on your couch or bed linens. Change clothes as soon as you get home, and keep up with laundry so pollen doesn't sit around in your laundry basket for weeks! Oh, and wipe your shoes off and leave them by the front door. Otherwise, you'll track pollen throughout your home!
Girl, wash your hair! Your hair is a magnet for pollen, and if you don't wash pollen out of your hair before bed it's going to get all over your pillow and irritate your eyes even more. Yikes! If you're a morning shower person, try changing your sheets more frequently instead.
Believe it or not, pollen is all over your cellphone! If you text and walk or just have your phone in an open pocket, it's collecting pollen. Then you put it near your face to talk on the phone and pollen is transferred to your skin. A simple solution is to wipe your phone down and wash your hands often!
This one is fairly obvious, but a little reminder never hurts. It's so tempting to open your windows and enjoy the spring weather, but it's a trap. Pollen will swoop in through the window and cover everything you own. Just open the blinds and keep the windows closed and you'll be fine!
So remember to take your allergy medicine, eat local honey, dust your dog, and do your best to enjoy the beauty of spring. Good luck out there!
Being home means that Mom is cooking meals that actually contain a vegetable, so it's easier for you to get rid of that freshman 15. Yes, it does exist. You also have to make sure to tell your parents where you're going and what you're doing, because you're not on your own watch anymore.
College life and home life can be similar, but some things you do at school may not be acceptable when at home with your family.
Sleeping through half the day was how I was able to function at school, and if I couldn't do that, naps were always the answer. After moving back home, you're expected to act more productive and actually do something other than lay in bed all day. It's terrible.
This was just the norm at school. Your nights started late and your sleeping schedule was always messed up because of it. Now you have to worry about what time you get home because sneaking into the house too late may wake up your parents or other siblings, and get you into some trouble.
At school, no one ever asks where you're going because you're on your own watch. You can leave and go as you please with no questions asked. You want to go out at home? Better make sure to tell your parents where you're headed. If not, you'll be put on trial about what you're doing, who is going, and when you'll be back.
Have nothing to do at school? Crack open a cold one! That's always the answer, especially when the weather is nice. But at home, it isn't so appropriate to start drinking in the middle of the day, although I feel it should be.
It just isn't acceptable to have your laundry pile up when you're at home. No one cares if you wear the same thing all week at college, but at home, someone will notice. Doing laundry more often than you're used to is essential, plus it's free at home! And if you're lucky, Mom will still do it for you. What an angel.
A healthy eating schedule is not a priority when you're away at college. You're able to eat like crap whenever you feel like it and that's mainly because you're too lazy to cook something that's nutritious. At home, I can't get a Domino's pizza at 1 A.M. That wouldn't fly with Mom.
Again, you're expected to be more productive at home. Binging a whole season of your favorite show may be an accomplishment at school, but at home, it may feel like you're being wasteful because everyone else in your family is going to work and school.
At school, there are never any parents to tell you that you can't have a giant rager, and you don't need to worry about any damages they may notice. At home, however, it is a lot harder for there to be a party that is at fraternity level. Plus, the police are a tad more lenient in a college town. If only frat houses existed everywhere you went.
