<p>DD is home, and once again my poor house strains to incorporate all the stuff that college kids accumulate…surge supressors, lamps, light bulbs, pillows, clothes, big heavy books and more books, stuff and more stuff. (And that doesn’t include things stored in the garage from her first apartment - bed, kitchen stuff, shelving, chairs,…) Anyone else suffering the onslought?</p>
<p>My parents are dealing with this right now…</p>
<p>My sister’s roommate is graduating, so she had to move out and back home to regroup. My parents now have my sisters junk, some of my old junk (I’ve cleaned out most of it already…but a little remains), and my brothers junk (he’s lived there the past few years). </p>
<p>Now couple this with the fact that my younger brother just purchased his first home (a mighty feat at 21) and will be moving out in June. It looks like my sister will be moving in with my brother, so…my mom is going to have to deal with a more crowded than normal house for a month or so here and then will go to an empty nest!</p>
<p>anxiousmom,
I am dealing with this right now. I have a semi-small refrigerator sitting in it’s box in my front hallway, because S could not find the time to store it at school. I have extremely large duffel bags and a smaller suitcase and a pole lamp in that hallway. I have been patient for several days now, but I’m starting to lose it and tonight I asked him to move the large duffel. So he shoved it to another portion of the hallway, not exactly what I had in mind. He did take the two smaller duffels up to his room. If I don’t have to see them still stuffed and not yet unpacked, it bothers me less. I think I can last this out for another few days, but that’s it.</p>
<p>S came home with his laptop and one duffle. He stored everything in the basement of his dorm and sold whatever he didn’t want for next year. However, his closet is STILL full (of junk, of course).</p>
<p>Well, just now we moved the worst of it upstairs into the hallway. It bothers me less if I don’t see it all in the living room as I walk in the door after a stressful day at work. Hopefully DD will clean up the mess eventually…</p>
<p>You should of seen my house when I came home from school… with my aunt and daughter living in my basement, and their whole house in storage in my basement, there wasn’t much room to store my apartment in my basement… haha… My futon is in my 7 year old cousins room, my other furniture is stacked on the attic, etc…</p>
<p>Glad I’m not the only one. S’s room at home can’t possibly hold this stuff (it’s about 6X7), so it’ll probably go into D’s old room, already storing everything she’s left home, plus H’s brewing equipment, etc. My hopes of turning it into a guestroom slash office are continually dashed!</p>
<p>S has been home for a week. His room looks just like it did a week ago…like something exploded in there. Thought it would expedite the process if I washed the clothes. The only expedition that took place was when they moved from the laundry room up the stairs to his room where they currently lie in a stack on the floor. Oh well, he’s leaving again on Saturday to be gone for a month. Maybe the stack will go with him!</p>
<p>D did quite a bit of triage before coming home. Some stuff is stored in the “trunk room” (large basement) at college to await her return for senior year (she’ll be away all next year). She got rid of a lot of stuff. The first year, we were back there at the end of the year and her “almost done” version of packing up her room reminded me of the aftermath of one of Napoleon’s battles (yeah, I’m that old). She’s shipped three boxes of books and papers home, crammed everything else into two suitcases (currently exploded on the living room floor), one packback (mainly computer), and her purse for the flight home. </p>
<p>In compensation, she has stacks of stuff in her bedroom and in the dining room that are on the agenda to be cleaned up before she departs again in seven weeks. We will see if they are immovable objects.</p>
<p>Saturday, while we were moving out S, I got into a conversation with a Dad while we were doing the “guard the double-parked car” duty down the street from the dorm. (Ah, the fun of city schools…) He has two sons in the school. Each asked last year if he could store stuff over the summer for a friend who lived out of the country. The dad (no, not that thedad), said okay, since they live nearby. He stuck all four boys’ stuff in his garage, meaning his car stayed out for the summer (I envy the garage…we seem to be using the living room. ) Anyhoo, a month into the summer, the guy’s wife says that something must have got into the garage and died. He goes in there, and realizes that all four boys had taped their refrigerators shut for moving, without cleaning the food out!!!</p>
<p>He laughed when he told the story…but I don’t think he was laughing last summer.</p>
<p>Wow, I didn’t think about that (stuff returning to our home)! Yikes! We just spend a few months cleaning the place out. And I’ve got a kid with a major that demands mountains of equipment in addition to all his stuff.</p>
<p>We are currently trying to figure out how to get all the stuff home; the minivan we used to move S in died in December and we replaced it with a smaller subaru. I hadn’t even thought about what would come next.</p>
<p>At least they don’t have stereos with huge speakers and crates and crates of LPs like we did in our day!</p>
<p>It’s the mountains of laundry that I’m dreading. :(</p>
<p>Not that I’ll have to do it, but I’ll have to look at it until she does it and then puts it all away. That will probably be right before she goes back in the fall!</p>
<p>I can SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO relate. Have two in college. A few days ago, we packed D2 up and loaded our very large SUV to the hilt (and with some on top) to bring it all home. It all came home but SHE did not. She is not back yet but will be tomorrow night via train. Until this morning, our foyer and half the family room was filled up. We have now carried it all upstairs and about half is lining the upstairs hallway, and then half fills up part of the guestroom. I’m not counting large items like fridge, microwave, TV, piano, guitar, put elsewhere. I have not unpacked a thing. Also, there is a ton of laundry involved. However, D1 is coming home Sat. with the same huge amount of stuff that will have to be unloaded into the house and put somewhere. The guest room is sure to be packed in every piece of floor space. Some things like clothing can be unpacked but some things are in a holding pattern until they leave again. Meanwhile, grandparents are coming to see D2 in a performance in ten days and will need to stay in said guestroom…so it will all have to be moved some place and they better have unpacked the items that can be unpacked. But of course, one will be rehearsing every day and one will be going back to her school four days after getting home for a showing she was invited to be in an exhibition and has to attend the opening. Both will only be home a few weeks until they are packed back up to leave again. The piles of stuff is unbelieveable.</p>
<p>I guess this kills my dream of moving into an airstream trailer in a few years… the kid’s stuff will never fit! And then when they come to visit with the grandkids, (grandkids? What grandkids?) where will they all stay? 
DD has made progress… all her junk is now crammed into her 7 x 8 ft bedroom and is out of the hall and living room. I’m happy. :)</p>
<p>anxiousmom,
I’m with you on this one. I have “badgered” DS into taking the vast majority of his stuff out of the front hallway. We are left with one very large duffel bag. I told him that tomorrow is it. He can take it to his room and leave it there. If I don’t see it, I’m at the point where I don’t care anymore if it’s not unpacked!</p>
<p>Daughter has until Sunday to go through her stuff and decide what goes to the basement and what to her bedroom; currently everything is in the dining room. We have a large unfinished basement so there is plenty of storage room, but darling daughter doesn’t want her things in the basement-it might get dirty and dusty!! She doesn’t understand why she needs to go through her boxes now when she “just” got home. Because she is transferring schools and will have new living arragements, there is stuff that will not go back to school with her and I would like it all to find a home soon!</p>
<p>Oh, and the little darling wants me to order new contacts for her because the ones she has left from the last order are in one of the boxes that she doesn’t want to unpack! I told her she could either find the contacts or use her work money to buy more; she should have 6 weeks left from her old order if not longer; I find my kids don’t change their 2 week disposable contacts as often as 2 weeks :-(</p>
<p>I can’t comment on anything you mentioned but the contacts (as my son is still a HS Senior)… but as for 2 week lenses lasting longer than 2 weeks? I remember way back when I still wore soft disposables… as long as you don’t wear them overnight, they can last much longer – a month per pair. now I wear hard lenses, so it doesn’t matter much for me.</p>
<p>Lol…I change my monthly disposables every 2 months or so and it shouldn’t be a problem as long as you take care of them well. </p>
<p>Heck, I’m still using my bottle of Renu MoistureLoc, despite the warnings and it being pulled from the shelves! I figure it’s the only thing that works for my dry eye condition and the fungal problem was primarily due to people who didn’t handle their lenses correctly. </p>
<p>As long as your daughter is being careful with her lenses, I wouldn’t worry…but I also sure as heck wouldn’t buy her new ones due to laziness. Who knows, if she orders new lenses her prescription may change by the time she uses up the entire supply.</p>