Mini Microwave
When you are preparing your youngster to go off to college for the first time, it is both an exciting and scary event. For most teenagers who move onto a college campus and take up residence in a dorm, this may be the first time they have lived away from home. No longer will mom be there to pick up his or her clothes and make sure they are clean. No more will there be a stocked refrigerator ready to raid day or night. Along with learning their school lessons at college, a lot is learned about life in that freshman year living away from home at college.
If your fledgling college student is moving into a dorm room, they are going from a large space of living into your home to a very small one living in a small room that is probably the size of his or her closet at home and probably living there with one or two roommates as well. So in every way, space is at a premium when you are helping your child get ready for school. While many of the modern conveniences that your child is used to having won't be possible, you can give that student some appliances that can make independent life more workable in a dorm room or even in a small apartment or fraternity or sorority house.
One appliance that will help your freshman make that transition to college would be a very small or "mini" microwave oven. There are models of microwaves that are drastically smaller than the version you use in your kitchen at home. These miniaturized appliances are made for situations just like this where even though the living space is small, having a microwave would do a lot to help that college student cope with daily life in school.
Before buying a small microwave for your soon-to-be college student, if you can pay a visit to the campus to get the layout of the room where your child will pass that first year at school, that can help you plan for what kind of appliances to buy for him or her. The best combination of appliances is to send with your child a small refrigerator and a microwave to accommodate the limited food possibilities that can be done in a college dorm room. This way if that freshman is out having pizza with friends, she can bring home some leftovers and heat them up the next day after storing them in the mini refrigerator.
Similarly, that student can buy small amounts of food that need to be heated up and keep them in the room to be eaten when cramming for finals or for a midnight snack. Not only is this easier on the student saving him time having to go out to get that food but it means more supermarket or left over food being eaten which goes easy on mom and dad's budget. And when putting a youngster through college, any cost savings go a long way.