<p>Does anybody know the yard will be open for parents’ car on May 13 for moving out dorm stuff? We will ride to Harvard on that day to pick up son and his belongings and dont know where to park the car…</p>
<p>[Harvard</a> Yard Operations](<a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~yardops/move-out_info.html]Harvard”>http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~yardops/move-out_info.html)</p>
<p>^This site has gate schedule and yard access instructions… says gates open Sunday 7A to noon.</p>
<p>Really now . . . this is just too easy!</p>
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<p>Ahem . . . You pahk the cah in . . . :)</p>
<p>Thank you very much crimson15mom and …gadad!!</p>
<p>DeathAndMaiden, After her first year at H, DD hardly took anything back home (perhaps because of the distance - two flights) and stored her stuff in her new house. Houses provide storage space for incoming second year students to store their stuff.</p>
<p>There is also a mail storage option. Its great in August – boxes delivered to your room and waiting for your arrival.</p>
<p>gadad, that must have made your week (I can’t figure out how to quote someone, even though I check the “quote” button).</p>
<p>I was not aware of a mail storage system at Harvard that is mentioned above. Does the Harvard mail room store boxes for a fee or is it off campus? Storage at the Houses is limited so this would be a great service for those who need extra storage and live a great distance away.</p>
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<p>Need collegeinfo – Its private storage via mail. We got flyer freshman year. Company sends students the boxes, picks up at the dorm and stores your boxes for summer and delivers to new room at move in. Extremely convenient. D’s Roommates used it in past summers so I don’t remember the name of the company but your student should be able to get the name handily enough. Yes houses have storage but there are limits to how many boxes you can store. While moving in last August and trying to beat the pending hurricaine, really wished we had availed ourselves of that service last summer!</p>
<p>For graduation (time flies, good thing we have another one still at H) , we are thinking of parking at Alewife Station and taking the T around for the three nights we are there. Does anyone know how feasible is to find a parking spot at Alewife during the weekday? We are planning to arrive on Tuesday afternoon.</p>
<p>2borno2bivy-Thank you for your information on the box storage and delivery service. I had inferred that you meant it was a Harvard service. I have heard about the off-campus service and we had looked into it last summer. We got some mixed reactions as to the reliability of the service so I am happy that you can report good results. I believe that the company’s name is Collegeboxes. Has anyone else had experiences they can relay? Thanks for your help.</p>
<p>Has anyone here had experience with lazybones storage and collegeboxes? My daughter is looking to store her stuff in Boston before she begins work in the fall. Lazybones is cheaper than collegeboxes but I wasn’t able to find any reviews on their storage. Their laundry services have bad ratings on yelp.</p>
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<p>I’ve done the Alewife thing many times, because I really don’t like driving into Cambridge and trying to park. The Alewife structure gets pretty full on weekdays, but I never failed to find spot. Sometimes you have to go clear up to the top level and patrol around a bit, but I always managed to find a spot or find someone pulling out and vacating a spot.</p>
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<p>Thank you so much for your reply, coureur!</p>
<p>College Boxes delivered my stuff 1) to the wrong room on the wrong floor 2) on the wrong day! 2 days before I even got back to Cambridge, my stuff had been delivered to someone else’s room! I had to move it down one floor and to correct room myself. Instead of following my instructions for when and where to deliver, they followed the house manager’s, even though he was not the one who contracted with or paid them! Last year I used Fetch Storage, which did an excellent job, but doesn’t provide boxes - you have to get them yourself from Fed-X or Staples, but Fetch is good service and reasonable.</p>
<p>miakoukla, thanks for sharing your experience with the 2 storage companies on this forum. I had sent a pm to guitars101 and her son had a wonderful experience all 3 yrs with Collegeboxes. I am not sure if my D has already contacted Collegeboxes.</p>
<p>Off topic but cute–
[Harvard</a> Baseball 2012 Call Me Maybe Cover - YouTube](<a href=“Harvard Baseball 2012 Call Me Maybe Cover - YouTube”>Harvard Baseball 2012 Call Me Maybe Cover - YouTube)</p>
<p>1moremom - I just love this ^^^ - so incredibly cute</p>
<p>MOVING HELP - Radcliffe Rugby is offering their services as a fundraiser. From The Crimson Flyby section:</p>
<p>The Harvard-Radcliffe Rugby Football Club bypassed traditional forms of fundraising by creating a method of raising money unique to their athleticism: moving. Calling themselves “Radcliffe Movers,” members of the Women’s Rugby team will work in groups of two and three people to assist students as they move boxes and furniture out of their dorms and into house storage facilities. “We get off-season lifting workouts, you get your stuff moved,” reads the tagline on the Radcliffe Movers sign-up form.</p>
<p>This is the first time that the Women’s Rugby Team has offered their help in moving students out of their dorms, and 32 undergraduates have already purchased moving assistance by signing up on the Radcliffe Movers google form that circulated over House and organization email lists this weekend.</p>
<p>The Radcliffe Movers will begin their work on Monday, May 7, and continue moving items through Friday, May 10. They’ll be charging $20 for the first hour and $10 for each additional hour of labor. About two-thirds of the rugby team’s 35 members has volunteered time to help out with the moves.</p>
<p>getalifemom—why aren’t the male ruggers doing it too?</p>