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After Christmas sales are a great time to buy things for your family and yourself! (Shutterstock Ground Picture)

f youGifts have been opened, wrapping paper discarded and order restored (well, not really) but maybe soon. Now is the time to pick up great deals on the items you wanted but didn’t get. If you have a teen going to college in the fall, here are some popular dorm items you might want to buy now.

Post-Christmas clearance sales

If you have time on your hands, check out the Amazon’s Winter Sale – Save up to 40% and browse all day long.

Single Serve Mini Keurig (Amazon)

Keurig mini

Eighty-seven percent 4 and 5 star reviews make this an “Amazon choice.” Plus, the slim profile is perfect for a dorm or college apartment.

Beckham Hotel Collection Bed Pillows (Set of 2)(Amazon)

Our readers love these and your burgeoning adult will be needing pillows. This is the #1 bestseller in bed pillows on Amazon.

JBL Go-4 (Amazon)

Portable bluetooth speaker-a fan-favorite this year. Many colors available.

Viscosoft Dusk Twin XL Mattress Topper (Amazon)

Viscosoft, a Charlotte, NC manufacturer, is a very popular brand with the Grown and Flown community. The Dusk model is a 3 Foam Bed Topper with a removable and washable cover with non-slip beads which keeps it from sliding around on the college supplied mattress.

Samsonite Freeform Carryon Roller Bag (Amazon)

Why should you trust us?

The Grown and Flown team includes three moms who have raised 8 young adults and have been working on product lists for over 12 years now, making them experts. When selecting products they survey the Grown and Flown Parents Facebook group of over 300,000 parents of teens, tweens and young adults. They do opinion polls, surveys and ask open ended questions. They search for products that combine reasonable price with high quality and are recommended by our large following.

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About Helene Wingens

Helene Wingens has always been passionate about painting pictures with words. She graduated from Brandeis University with a degree in psychology and three years later from Boston University School of Law with a Juris Doctor. In a year long clerkship for an appellate judge Helene honed her writing skills by drafting weekly appellate memoranda. She practiced law until she practically perfected it and after taking a brief twenty year hiatus to raise her three children she began writing a personal blog Her essays have been published in: Scary Mommy, Kveller, The Forward, and Grown and Flown where she is Managing Editor. You can visit Helene's website here

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