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Decorate
Your Student Hovel
There are only so many parties you can go to, only so many movies you can see and only so many "£1 a shot" drinks promotions you can endure. Sooner or later you're going to have to confront the orange swirly carpet and the tatty venetian blinds of your student accommodation. But you don't need the Changing Rooms gang to turn a hovel into a home. With some help from eBay you can turn your room into a groovy pleasure palace - and you don't have to plunder your overdraft facility to do it.
Atmosphere
First off, you need to transform your sweaty student accommodation
into a plush and stylish arena of love. Sleeping on the floor and
storing your possessions in bin-liners may seem funky and bohemian
for a while but you'll soon get tired of it, so check out our household
and home furnishings
categories.
Why fill your room with the same old Travis posters that everybody
else on campus sticks up when you can buy original and unique posters
and prints
on eBay? You'll soon get fed up of hearing tedious "when I was in
Thailand…" gap year tales from fellow students so shut them up with
some ethnographic
items of your own - all without having to don a rucksack or contract
tropical diseases. Avoid burning your hovel to the ground with the
strategic purchase of an ashtray
and get rid of the stench with some incense.
While you might think it's a great idea to live off fast-food and
vending machines, the onset of scurvy will soon force you to buy some
items from the eBay kitchenalia
category and learn to cook.
Study
It may seem like a waste of good beer money but an initial investment
in your studying equipment can pay dividends - especially when your
parents come to visit. Create the impression of a serious-minded scholar
with textbooks
and maybe some high-brow novels.
A PC
or laptop
is an essential tool for serious academic research and is also useful
for checking your eBay account and dodging the spiders in Half-Life.
A telephone
is essential for informing your tutors that you will be unable to
attend their 9am lecture. We all know how re-arranging your room is
a great way of putting off that essay and with the help of Feng
Shui you can draw out the process even longer.
Home
entertainment
Now that you've sorted out your study area, the serious work begins.
It's time to deck out your hovel with a full-on, rip-roaring home
entertainment system. First buy a television
for essential educational programmes such as Newsnight, BBC Learning
Zone and The Jerry Springer Show. On top, place a Video
Recorder lest your lectures clash with the Hollyoaks omnibus.
Add some videos
and you're half-way there.
Go one step further and impress your chums with a DVD
player and the latest DVDs.
When you're completely skint at the end of term you'll be thankful
for a collection of top games
which will allow you to stay in for days on end without spending a
penny on entertainment. Choose the latest Dreamcast
or Playstation
or go retro
with an Atari, complete with
Space Invaders and Pacman.
Make sure your neighbours know you are alive and well with a kick-ass
stereo
and some tapes
and CD's.
Congratulations! You've almost finished the transformation of your
student hovel. To finish the job, buy yourself some turntables
and vinyl,
pump up the speakers,
get your friends round … its party time! |
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