Rock Christmas

Rock-Center

New York City 2012

Travel Light

Enjoy the Sights!

Ameribag

Ameri-Back-Bag

How Many Pounds do you carry when you Travel?

Do you Roll or Carry?

Rolling can add 5-10 lbs.

Carry can weigh less.

Can you travel under 10 lbs?

Reader

Amazing!

The amount of space in a reader

vs

A stack of Books and Magazines

Example: Kobo

Keep Light Smart Phone

Smart phone Lightens your Load.

Amazing all the items you do not have to carry.

Camera,

Phone.

Reader.

Gps.

Games.

Calculator.

Calendar

Computer

Wow!

Thanksgiving Travel

How do you Travel Light

For

Thanksgiving?

Mail ahead?

Organize

Just think it Through.

Plan.

Organize

To win the first half of the Battle.

Dorm Survival: Sleep

Dorm Survival: Stay Well: Sleep

With all the fun and distracting wonders at college, it becomes tricky to keep up your health.

Don’t forget to sleep.

Set your schedule.

It is fun to play video games all night and sip beer.

But to keep your schedule to meet your goals you need to sleep.

1.       Close the door.

2.       Set the alarm.

3.       Put in ear plugs.

4.       Turn off the light.

5.       Lay down.

6.       Close your eyes.

7.       Tune out the world.

8.       Rest your body and mind.

Stay well and rested at college. Get your goals and finals done!

 

Dorm Survival: Help im Sick

 

Help! I’m Sick!

Whoever would have imagined with all the fun things to do at College one could get sick? Not just a little sick but Sick, Sick!

Staying well at college is good practice to stay well for your life.

Stay Well at College:

1.       Soap and water works wonders on stopping germs.

a.       Wash your hands.

b.      Wash your dishes.

2.       Learn to sniff out germs. If someone else touched it, they left germs.

a.       Wipe down the bathroom sink and toilet handle before you touch it.

b.      Don’t breathe in other people’s air space.

3.       Establish the lifelong habit of not touching your face.

a.       Eyes.

b.      Nose

c.       Mouth

4.       Don’t drink and eat off other people.

5.       Kissing? Spreads germs. Think about it.

Keep well at college. Leave more time for good grades and having fun.

Purse

How heavy is your

Purse?

Weigh it and tell me.

Stuff What to Do

What can you do with

"Stuff"

You really wont use again?

Oh Yeah,

It's good stuff.

Might be good for something.

But why house it?

 

Carry less

What can you carry in your car?

So you can carry less on your person or purse?

Travel vest

What do you carry with you?

Consider a Travel vest for the must haves to even the load.

Tote Light

What do you carry around with you?

This is the Teene by Baggallini'

IT can be worn as a shoulder bag or around the waist.

Do you really need to be toting more that fits in this bag?

Let me know.

Do you drag a Bag around with you?

What does your Purse weigh?

Weigh it!

Let me know.  

Sloppy roomie

 

Help My Roommate is a Slob!

Roommates housekeeping make you look like Mr. Clean?

Is the mess driving you insane?

What do you do?

Have you decided to keep the Roomie? They are really a pretty fun soul.

1.       Keep your stuff put away. This way you will know where it is and it likely will not be used in your absence.

2.       Talk to your roomie so they can understand (on some level) what bothers you and what they can do to help.

3.       Decide the minimum rules you can live with. Would a line down the center of the room help? Can you live with spoiling food on the floor for the rest of the semester?

4.       Consider bagging and taking the trash with you when you go out the door.  

Most folks do not intend to annoy you. They just live differently. Consider trading tasks if you decide to toe the cleaning and trash emptying.

Loneliness

What do you think could kill a college career?

Poor grades? Not going to class? Not doing the work? Right?

But what is THE bigger killer?

Who ever thought a successful college career could be brought down by Loneliness?

 

Your away from home enjoying the excitement of college. How do you protect yourself from the dreaded career killer of loneliness?

 

Have a plan!

Be ready for loneliness to strike and fight back.

Ideas:

1.       Have a favorite loneliness shirt or hat and wear it when you need it.

2.       Keep a schedule on campus. Got to class. Do homework.

3.       Keep on a communication schedule with friends and family at home.

4.       Do fun things on campus and when you visit home.

 

Don't let the sneaky loneliness fairy kill your life goals!

Silk top

The Silk Tank

Extends top choices

Eases packing space.

Shoe travel light

Women's Drainmaker™
This fully drain-able water shoe lets you catch the fish and release the stream.
This is a Columbia sample! 
The world has comfortable. Light Weight shoes that you can get wet. 
Perfect for light weight summer travel! 

Light Make Up

Folding.

Light.

Makeup mirror.

Do you use them?

Light

AmeriBag.

Health Back Bag

Can you travel this light for a long weekend?

Scottee

Friday, June 10, 2011

Scotte vest

The amazing Scotee product revisited!

Ready for Dorm Life?

10. Ready for College?

College is weeks away. Are you ready?

We discussed:

1.       What to pack. How to pack it.

2.       How to set up the room.

3.       Keeping up on laundry.

4.       Bedding.

5.       Showering.

6.       Food access.

7.       Class preparation.

Anything else you want to know?

Are you ready?

Basic college needs: Sleep. Shower. Eat. Think. Relax. Exercise? Weather. Gear.

Oops. Almost forgot: Class. Studying, Books, Computer.

4th ofJuly

Celebrate!

Dorm Survival: So what are you going to Eat?

9. Dorm Survival: What are you going to eat? Anyway?

So what are you going to eat at college?

Have you looked into buying that little card that lets you charge food at the food court?

Have you checked out the closest store and what they have to eat there?

Take sealed storage containers to keep your snacks in. If you seal and store your snacks there will be a lot fewer creatures crawling through your food.

How do you like to eat now? Do you eat Breakfast? OR just do late night pizza?

Do you grab a handful of trail mix to study with? Do you like dried fruit?

Just a chips and Salsa kind of guy?

Think about what you need to keep in the room to have food to eat. Consider how often you need to replace the supply. As you visit the store now keep an eye out for foods that will work for you at college.

Basic college needs: Sleep. Shower. Eat. Think. Relax. Exercise? Weather. Gear.

Oops. Almost forgot: Class. Studying, Books, Computer.

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Dorm Survival: Eats

8. Dorm Survival: Eats.

Eating is so simple. Right?

1.       You just open the fridge and grab what looks good.

2.       Your mom hands you a plate of your favorite food.

3.       Your dad takes you out for pizza.

No brainier right?

Now picture yourself alone in a dorm with an empty dorm fridge and one bag of your roomie’s chips. The last time you ate those chips your roomie threatened to bruise your teeth. Its 2 am. You are starving; no food opens for hours and you hope to be asleep then. You wish you had thought about having food on hand before you were this hungry.

Good idea to start thinking about food now.

1.       When you went on the college tour what food options were presented? Were you taken to a food court and told you could fund a sort of charge card? Or were there other options?

2.       What is your eating style? Do you eat breakfast? Snack late at night while studying?

3.       Consider having sealed containers to store your snacks in to reduce the sharing bugs and roomie trolling.

4.       How far is it to a store that sells what you like to eat? How can you get there?

Think ahead and plan to have easy access to you what you enjoy eating. Hungry at 2 am with no food is a drag. And 4 am is even worse.

Basic college needs: Sleep. Shower. Eat. Think. Relax. Exercise? Weather. Gear.

Oops. Almost forgot: Class. Studying, Books, Computer.

Dorm Survival: Shower

7. Dorm Survival: Shower.

Showering is a simple thing right? You do it often. You can even get up half a sleep and shower. Your bathroom door locks for privacy.  Your shampoo and towel are always in the same place, Right?

What if the shower is down the hall and lots of other people use it too?

Say, you wake up a little late and stagger down to the shower. Where is your shampoo? Body wash? You get the idea.

Thinking back to the college tour what was the shower like? Down the hall? Or will you be lucky enough to share a shower with only a few people in a room or quad? (I still would not leave your belongings in a shared shower. They won’t be there when you get back, or if you are lucky, only half gone.)

Think about what do you actually need to shower?

1.       Shampoo, Conditioner, body wash? Anything else?

2.       How will you easily carry everything? (Gives a new focus to soap on a rope?)

3.       What will you wear to the shower? Just wrapping in a towel is a cry to jokesters to rip it off.

4.       What is the shower stall like. Tossing your dry towel over the door is also a call to jokesters to move it and enjoy the fun.

5.       Remember the shower is a good time to wash out a few things and reduce time spent watching a washer spin. Wash out as you begin your shower and hang to drip while you shower.

Think ahead and plan to have easy access to you what you enjoy using for a quick, fun shower.

Basic college needs: Sleep. Shower. Eat. Think. Relax. Exercise? Weather. Gear.

Oops. Almost forgot: Class. Studying, Books, Computer.

Dorm Survival: Exercise

6. Dorm Survival: Exercise.

Suggesting you exercise? Never. Not Me.

What do you enjoy actively with friends and family now?  

Swim? 1. If you enjoy swimming, be sure you take a comfortable quick drying swim suit.

2. Check the college website for how to get swimming.

3. Do you have to pay a fee? Obtain a key or code?

Basketball? Like to relax with a basketball. Take something you can play in and take or know how to scoop a ball.

Walk? 1 .Enjoy long walks.

2. Take rain and sun gear.

3. Walking shoes.  

Think ahead and to take with you for what you enjoy doing.

Basic college needs: Sleep. Shower. Eat. Think. Relax. Exercise? Weather. Gear.

Oops. Almost forgot: Class. Studying, Books, Computer.

Dorm Survival: Sleeping

5. Dorm Survival

Sleep and the Bed:

You may never give where or how you sleep a thought until you don’t get enough sleep.

Bedding: Give a little thought to what you need to be comfortable sleeping away from home. Sheets? Comforter? What about a pillow or pillows. Do you study resting in bed?

Don’t take more than you need.  Bedding takes a lot of travel space. It must be kept clean to control odor and stains. But do take what you need to be comfortable.  

Comfort: Give and extra thought to your comfort. You are going to be away from the comforts of home. You are going to have lonely moments. Your bed will be your source of private solitude. Think about what you need to bring yourself comfort.

Washing: As you select your bedding  think ahead to how often and how much time it will take to clean it. What of it do you need to wash frequently? Pillow cases? The sheet or sheets? Think fast drying so you have less time to watch a dryer tumble and more time to just hang out. You will meet people who change the sheets by passing them down to the next dorm occupant. Imagine!

Basic: Sleep. Shower. Eat. Think. Relax. Exercise? Weather gear. Oops. Almost forgot: Class. Study. Computers can be used for more than gaming, Books.

Basic college needs: Sleep. Shower. Eat. Think. Relax. Exercise? Weather. Gear.

Oops. Almost forgot: Class. Studying, Books, Computer.

Dorm Survival: Laundry

4. Oh the dreaded Laundry:

(Don’t take anything of real value. Thieves can attend college too.)

You may be coming from a family where your laundry may be done for you.

What about when the gear you take gets dirty?  When walking your dorm floor is the stench dirty laundry?

Oh the dreaded laundry!

Despise the thought of wasting your valuable on campus relax time watching a dryer turn? I sure did.

IF you leave your laundry in the machine, at worst it is stolen, or dumped into a damp, dirty corner.  

Can you manage 20 minutes to wash?

What about rinsing out a few things in the shower. Would you be caught dead doing that?

Don’t let them drip on carpet or you will grow a science experiment of black mold and die of pneumonia before you graduate.

Would you be nauseated trying to study sitting on a spinning washer?

As you shop for college think about how you will wash. What can be washed together?

How will you wash?

How often? How do you pay?

What products do you need on hand? Soap? Fabric softener?

Consider items that are durable, comfortable and will dry quickly.

Items can be hung up to dry on a hanger if they dry in a few hours. This saves dryer time and effort on your part.

Keep your clothes clean!

Basic: Sleep. Shower. Eat. Think. Relax. Exercise? Weather gear. Oops. Almost forgot: Class. Study. Computers can be used for more than gaming, Books.

Dorm Survival:Electronics

3. Travel Light & Right for College

How Do U Study?

Would it be easier to have a computer to help study?

What electronic equipment do you really need at college?

Can you carry items that perform more than one function?

Ultra light: What Could a computer do?

1.       Study. Ultra lite would unplug for class and plug back in to your in room set up.

2.       Music.

3.       Game.

4.       Movie.

5.       Social media.

Smart Phone: Multi device phone.

1.       Phone. (Duh.) Contacts.

2.       Camera.

3.       Music.

4.       Video.

5.       Social media.

6.       Some computer functions. Email class notes to your computer.

What do you think?

Stay with us as we discuss planning and packing for college.

Basic college needs: Sleep. Shower. Eat. Think. Relax. Exercise? Weather. Gear.

Oops. Almost forgot: Class. Studying, Books, Computer.