10 Things You Should Absolutely Not Get Roped Into Buying

1: Giant wall stickers.  These are a blatant lie.  No matter how removable they are, you cannot use them on your dorm room walls.  People will literally come in the night dressed in ninja suits and take them away to the Island of Forbidden Things.

2: Futons and/or couches.  Your floor and storage space will be limited enough without a couch that you will have to place diagonally across the center of the room because it is wider than the floor-plan will permit.  You will then break your clavicle climbing over it in the dark to take a shower.

3: Anything over-the-door.  Most dorm doors already have hooks in them.  Also, dorms tend to be older buildings so the doors actually go all the way up to the top of the jambs.  Closing the door will be impossible with over-the-door hooks on it and then people will hate you because you are basically changing in the hall.

4: Storage towers/floor organizers.  There really, seriously isn't enough floor space for things like this.  Also, they are ugly.

5:  Anything heavy that is designed to be hung on the wall.  You will be hanging things with tacks and painter's tape.  Don't get big, heavy bulletin boards or wall ornaments - they will fall on you and break your already broken face.

6:  More than 1 decorative pillow.  They will always be on the ground.  Then your roommate will hate you and you will almost certainly be murdered by his/her death stares.

7:  Tiny little appliances.  If you can't fit more than a gallon of milk in your fridge, it is too small.  I already discussed small coffee-makers.  Also, tiny appliances tend to be inhabited by trolls who will sneak out in the middle of the night and steal your teeth for food.

8:  Hanging closet organizers.  You won't have enough hanging space anyway.  Just put your shoes in a plastic box and put it under your bed with all the rest of the krap you can't fit anywhere else.

9:  Analog clocks.  The ticking will kill you.

10:  Bed risers.  These are plastic lifts that you put under the legs of your bed to give you more storage space underneath.  You can buy these but wait until you get to school because you have to buy the right shape for the frame of your bed.  I had to jury-rig mine and now I live in constant fear of sudden, violent death by collapsing bed frame.