I will start this ball rolling! I am planning to buy myself a firm mattress to replace the exisitng form mattress. If we get enough people wanting a good firm mattress then we can organise ourselves to bulk buy and save money.
Likewise for some electrical appliances, like a kettle, thermo flasks.
Overall I hope to only bring in the bare minimum stuff into my room. It will be a tough road ahead with this, but my experience is the more stuff around the more distractions will arise for us. Keep it simple, very very simple. Almost zen like, bare minimum. HAHA ! 
the chalet rooms are small enough as there are !
xoxo BOOMBOOM
blepani
Boon, let's concentrate on the mattress and get our locals like Carl and Jeremy to see what is possible. I got a good mattress here from Ikea, and also a cleaned second hand one from Salvation Army - really good quality. Could be something similar in France??
My main concerns are the other stuff - health insurance, visa, etc. How to balance the money the French will want in the bank account for the visa, with then we have to post it to LL for the fees.