College Dorm Accessories

[CasperKid]

Simple question:

What should I buy for my college dorm to make it a more inviting place for girls to come?

What are some accessories I can use as excuses to pull girls back to my place?

Leave your creative and interesting responses below!

~CK

[imabuttfucker]

You should have nice drinks. I think girls love champagne, also vitamin water.
Also, scented candles are plus. Girls love that shit.
It's good that you are putting effort in these small things that normal guys would dismiss.
Girls love guys who do these small nice things for them, so that they see how much you care for them.

good luck man!

[Smirks]

I'm going to have to disagree with the champagne suggestion. It's a college dorm room...not a T-Pain video. I kept a wet bar in my ceiling...just keep girly things to drink.

My favorite shot to always have ingredients for (for girls):

Bacardi Dragonberry Rum
Cranberry juice
Redbull

tastes like red pop rocks.

[BluesCluesPUA]

1) HOOKAH. I cannot emphasize to you how many times they got me laid in college, like, at least a couple dozen directly traceable back to this. Have a nice, tall hookah with a good light tobacco (peach), and instant-light charcoal. Spend $100 on socialsmoke.com and I promise it will pay off.

2) Chill lighting. When people are lounging around, have a switch (or better yet, get a $20 remote) and be able to turn on a bunch of black lights or some LED color changing light strips. Really helps set a chill mood. If nothing else, just have some miscellaneous dim lights that are not the overheads.

3) Nice bottles of shit. As much as everyone thinks they can tell what's what, most alcohol tasting is psychological (the New York Times did an amazing piece on this relative to wine tastings using fMRI imagery). Get ahold of a few bottles of nice scotch, vodka, rum, etc, then keep washing them out and refilling them with cheap shit. In 5 years of college and being in a fraternity I never got caught and had a reputation among everyone as a classy guy who always had the finest shit. (Fun fact: According to the NYT study, stuff being in nice bottles doesn't just trick people into thinking they enjoy it more... it actually changes how their brains process the taste data and leads to an quantitative increase in enjoyment. So you are in fact being altruistic and doing everyone a favor by tricking them. Yes, that's how I justify deceiving my friends. It was for their own good!)

4) Seating. Depending on how big your room is, a futon, some bean bags, extra chairs, couch, etc. always helps. If you can get 10 people chilling comfortably then you are in good shape. A lot of people just have a bed, and people don't like chilling on beds (in beds, however, is another story).

5) Retro video games. I had an SNES and an N64 and bitches be crazy for Mario Kart 64 (hurry though, soon college kids won't know what MK64 was). There are some great Mario Kart drinking games like finish a beer during the race, or do a shot every time you lose a balloon during battle, etc. Guitar Hero is also good sometimes but maybe getting too old-school.

6) Phone chargers. Have a generic micro and mini USB phone charger, as well as a spare iPhone charger that you keep in your room. Nobody carries theirs around, and if you end up having girls spend the night spontaneously, they'll appreciate being able to charge up. Plus you don't want them tripping out and worrying about having a dead phone, which many do.

7) Personal items. Even if you don't wear them, have some contact lens solution, decent shampoo, and makeup remover and crap like that hidden somewhere. Every once in a while a girl would be over and start having eye problems, or want to spend the night but worried about her makeup getting stale or whatever the fuck, so saying "oh, someone left this makeup remover over here once, here you go" helps, which leads me to:

Other girls' shit. I was always finding hair ties, clips, pins, and other random shit I have no idea what to do with around my room. Rather than toss that shit out, leave it near your bed or in another location that it is likely to be seen by other people. It quietly says to people that you have girls around and is a nice, subtle DHV.

9) A decent screen. Don't waste money on an HD TV... spend $350 on a refurbished brand-name projector on Ebay, buy a $70 projector screen on Amazon, and wire your shit up. Most good TVs now cost more than a decent projector does, and again, people will know you as the guy with the awesome media setup.

etc.

[Bull Run]

The hookah and female toiletries are both legit, as is the remainder of the list. But, the recycling of top shelf booze bottles is cash money. Generally, girls drink clear booze (i.e. gin, rum, vodka...mostly vodka) and it's so freaking hard to tell the difference between brands for those types of booze. Add to the fact that these are almost always mixed in a drink and it becomes nearly impossible. For the longest time, I used to buy one bottle of high-quality shit and then refill it with what essentially amounts to gut rot. Women never noticed, ever. I always thought it was funny when some overly prentenious woman would roll into the casa and see those expensive bottles of booze and comment on how much better this vodka is than the cheap stuff because, "she can tell the difference..."

I will say that it's difficult to pull the same trick on whiskeys. It's not often, but I can tell when a bartender poured me a well whiskey versus a name brand whiskey. And, different brands have different flavors. So, Weller will taste different than Crown. Chivas tastes different from Johnnie. Beam tastes different from Jack. BUT, there certainly are cheap whiskeys that taste almost the same as each different brand. Canadian Club tastes very much like Makers. You just need to find the corresponding knock off brand for each different brand of whiskey.

Finally, I've found that most women don't drink whiskey but they do drink the infused whiskeys (usually cherry and honey). Pour one of those on the rocks, with a splash of water and almost every girl will drink it like pure water. The difference is that it's usually 70 proof and since it's hard to taste the alcohol it's easy for them to get a little bit drunk a little bit faster. Use that information as you see fit.

[BluesCluesPUA]

You know your whiskeys!

[Smirks]

Found this and I'm making some today. Could be an interesting thing to have stored in the dorm.

http://mixthatdrink.com/skittles-vodka-tutorial/

[voyager]

my strategy was to pirate a shit-ton of movies and shows onto an external hd. that usually provided enough excuse to invite someone back to my place. of course, that was before i got into this stuff and was still a huge chode.

if only i had known this shit in college!


are there any big differences between pimping my apartment vs a college dorm? i would guess not, but i want to see if anyone has any insight for post-college life.

[red]

One or two mirrors in a room can make the whole room seem much bigger. You may already have one, but big mirrors are the key here.

This is not something to enable you, or women, to look at yourselves. This is really something that causes the illusion of more space in a room. The light reflects, and offers a new atmosphere.

Go buy a canvas, and some paint, and paint your own art. It does not have to be elaborate. Just mix a few colors. Red and green. Yellow and blue. White and black. Keep it simple, and make a design. I am not talking about painting a rendition of a famous piece of art. Be creative, original, and express yourself.

Also, get plants. An ivy plant can be kept alive by keeping the soil moist(NOT JUICY, haha). It cleans the air, un-stifling the nature of your living area. It then gives you clean oxygen.

These are also things that a woman will see, and appreciate on a small level. She may not say that she notices, and you do not need to be pointing things out to qualify yourself. Just do not give a shit, and let your guests notice passively. The little things add up.

[IsiMan84]

All the things I've read so far are pretty good. If you're a freshman or undergrad it's not expected you'll have a lot of nice things, so it's resourceful to know how to stretch your money where you see fit. I was a grad student and my roommates were the same age as me but undergrads, so we'd accumulated a few things in our time.

One of them had a cool framed drawing that would change colors from different angles, and he also had a 400 disc DVD player. I had a pair of surround-sound speakers to complement his setup. We could always get people to come by and watch movies with us. The other roommate was in a few art classes and had a lot of drawings piled up in the corner, but people always asked about them anyway.

I was known as the 'bartender guy' around campus housing, which is funny because my roommate was the one who took a bartending class and had all the literature. But I looked through some of his books and ran with it. I went to the liquor store and bought a ton of mixers and other stuff. Since I was the most social one I pretty much used that as my bargaining chip to get some people to come party. I'd learned to make some pretty cool layered shots so the girls really liked that.

I had a lot of similar parties last year with plain old liquor and got pretty much the same result, so you don't have to learn any crazy drinks if you don't want to. Especially if you get the feeling they're just trying to use you for free/cheap drinks. But I was just doing it to get laid so I can't say I was innocent about it either. Better than putting the money directly in her hand, or taking her out to dinner. I went through 3/4 of a bottle of Grey Goose going shot for shot with a girl one night. That's still only like $20 worth of booze, half of which I drank. So yea. And I filled that bottle with bottom-shelf swill for weeks after that.

A few other things I had around the apartment were a couple decks of cards, some ping pong balls, pretty much anything you could turn into a drinking game. If you're able to put together a makeshift beer pong table that wouldn't be a bad idea. I don't do drugs nor would I recommend them to anyone, but the people who usually had weed/pills were never alone. So if that's up your alley, that's also an option.