<p>Another plus of Southwest is they allow 3 checked bags. Plus 1 carryone and “personal” item.</p>
<p>For boy who is not a clothes horse…1 parent and 1 child, 8 bags + 2 personal items (Laptop was one of these personal items) was more than enough to bring everything.</p>
<p>Most students will take a laptop…unlike students from 5+ years ago who had bulky CRT’s, CPU’s etc. And…most of our kids music is on an Ipod…so they don’t even bring a stereo system or record collection! (Do they even know what a record is?)</p>
<p>For Summer storage he plans on finding a local friend…or renting a storage unit with a group of others. Shipping the extra stuff back and forth to home via UPS ground or Fedex ground might be even less expensive than the storage unit…</p>