Do You Still Use Any College Freebie Toiletries?

[Admiral Yi]

First of all, do any of you ROTWers get this?  A small box of usually sample size toiletries, given free by the manufacturers in order to entice emerging brand loyalty, when you're an incoming freshman at university.

It struck me while I was shaving that I have been a life-long user of two items in the freebie box: Edge shaving gel and Speed Stick deoderant.  Aqua Velva, not so much.

[Caliga]

Fuck man, I can't remember what brands were in that stupid kit.

[Razgovory]

First of all, do any of you ROTWers get this?  A small box of usually sample size toiletries, given free by the manufacturers in order to entice emerging brand loyalty, when you're an incoming freshman at university.

It struck me while I was shaving that I have been a life-long user of two items in the freebie box: Edge shaving gel and Speed Stick deoderant.  Aqua Velva, not so much.

They didn't give me that when I was in college.  I was shown the dorm washboard and given the chance to purchase a pumice stone.

[Admiral Yi]

They didn't give me that when I was in college.  I was shown the dorm washboard and given the chance to purchase a pumice stone.

Harsh toke.

[Caliga]

Did your kit have rubbers in it?  Mine did.

[Admiral Yi]

Did your kit have rubbers in it?  Mine did.

No rubbers.  Maybe the Jesuits cleaned them out?

[Grey Fox]

I didn't get that no then again I didn't move to go to College.

I get all kind of shits by the mail that are baby related now tho.

[Caliga]

I was kind of surprised we got them in retrospect, since John Silber was such an old fashioned prude.

[Sheilbh]

Don't get.  You get loads of free shit in fresher's week but that's it.  The only things I remember were lighters, bread and teabags

[Capetan Mihali]

  I don't remember getting any freebie toiletries. 

But I did form some crucial brand loyalties during my undergraduate education. 

Noxzema shaving cream (the green one with aloe), the Gillette Sensor Excel razor (with two blades).  I came to college only a little past 17, not knowing how to shave. I had been surreptitiously using my dad's electric razor up until then.  Too neurotic for the classic "father teaching son to shave thing" I suppose.   

Winston cigarettes.  Old Grandad whiskey.  Colgate toothpaste.  "all" laundry detergent.

[dps]

I didn't get any freebies.

[Ideologue]

I use women's shaving cream Korea left behind.  Waste not, want not.  It smells nice.

[Josquius]

No beginning of year box but lots of freebies all through uni.

[Grinning_Colossus]

I recently used up a little thing of lip balm that I got at my orientation -- I kept losing it and re-discovering it under dressers, etc., which is why it took so long. There was no brand label, though. It was just blue with a picture of a bear on it. End of an era.

[DontSayBanana]

Off-campus living, probably going to continue living off-campus as a transfer student, so the question seems kinda moot for me.