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While your college freshman might not cry the way they did on the first day of kindergarten, that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t love a reminder of home in the form of a care package or two to help make the transition that much easier.

Mashable’s Laura Vitton has fifteen great ideas on what to stuff that box with other than tear-stained notes.

Hot sauce

Dining hall food is a flavorless mess. Hot sauce goes with everything and provides a much needed taste of home.

Homemade tea sachets

Good tea is both delicious and expensive. Send along a few scoops of your best loose tea for those times when your kid wants to forget that he’s broke and homesick. You could throw in a fun infuser too.

Fuzzy socks

Perfect for padding around on filthy hallways carpeted in the 1970s.

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Letting a college kid know you care.

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