As the washing is done daily, 4-5 sets of clothes will be enough. As the weather is unpredictable, I'd send Summer tops and cardigans. 3-4 nighties or pjs should be enough, plus a dressing gown. Slippers, a pair of shoes and sandals but realistically, the slippers were worn unless we went out. All of these should be labelled.
I took towels and brought them straight back home.
Plenty of knickers but I just wrote her room number on these.
I provided toiletries but these were never labelled. A bar of her favourite chocolate, some biscuits and a bottle of squash.
Took the TV, a care home licence is a few pounds a year, radio went in but was never used.
We also took in things to make the room homely, photos, own cushion, a throw, new duvet covers, stuff like that. Thought a pens and a few blank birthday cards might be useful; I used the pens and the cards were a waste of time.
For the office-
A month's supply of meds at the request of the home.
Hearing aid batteries
I put in £100 at a time but Mum was permanent, temporary I'd have given £50. Residents usually have to pay for their toenails to be cut, Mum liked to have her hair done so the majority of the money went on these.
For insurance purposes, we were asked for a list of everything that we'd brought in. If you need to do this, be sensible; would you claim for a missing shower gel? Probably not!
If Mum wears hearing aids, mark case with her initials. Specs often go missing so I bought some slide on charms from the local optician. It's far easier to say that Mum's missing glasses have a white rabbit on the arm than be faced with a box of ownerless specs that all look very similar.
Mum wore her rings as I didn't have the heart to remove them. These were declared for the insurance and were the only things that we photographed. When Mum removed them and threw then on the floor, they were returned to me.