Sandwich Toaster
A laptop? Don’t be silly. Pots and pans? Don’t bother. The only piece of culinary kit you’re going to need is the humble sandwich toaster! I know what you’re thinking: Students live on pot noodles and microwave food. Who needs a sandwich toaster that’ll take five minutes to cook something when a pot noodle is instant? Don’t bring one at your peril. On one of the many, many sub-zero winter mornings ahead of you in York, when all you want in the world is a warming and indulgent toastie, you’ll regret not having brought one with you. It elevates the most basic student staple, the humble sandwich, to gastronomic heights previously thought impossible. What was once a simple snack, is suddenly a culinary innovation. There’s also a lot less faffing around involved with a sandwich toaster than using the oven or boiling water in the pan to cook something!
DVD Boxsets
Freshers year is all about free time. You have tons of it. Tonnes. The studious among you might protest that you’ll be doing reading, writing notes and prepping for seminars, but once you get to university that will all be obliterated in a barrage of Costcutter own brand vodka and water fowl-watching. DVD Boxsets offer possibly the best way of spending your time, especially if your avoiding an ominous essay deadline or filling out one of the dozens of annoying admin forms you’ll be bombarded with through first year. You can always promise yourself you’ll just have one more episode, which becomes one more disc, which becomes one more boxset, and ultimately another series. Friends is a favourite, but if you want to think outside the box American Dramas are always a winner, particularly ones everyone watches. Game of Thrones, Grey’s Anatomy and anything mind-numbing and teeny like One Tree Hill will be perfect. It’s also a great alternative pre-drinking strategy – there are tons of drinking games associated with boxsets which will provide a welcome respite from relentless games of ‘never have I ever.’
Dressing Gown
“Mum I’m not 60!” “Don’t be ridiculous I’ll have heating in halls!” “I’ll never wear it, I’ll just be in bed all day!” Don’t fight, just get one. The dressing gown is a must have piece for your uni wardrobe. It’s like a bungee chord attached to your bedroom. You can get the bare essentials to begin overcoming a hangover, but it hauls you back to the room before you make the foolish decision of braving leaving halls. You can convince yourself you haven’t stayed in bed all day because you put on a layer over your pyjamas, but you also have a day-long excuse to stay in your room and not leave because you aren’t dressed for the outside world!