<p>When I was in college, I bought a trunk at an Army surplus store and packed it with bedding, pillows, towels, school supplies, toiletries, extra clothes, and packed only one suitcase of clothing, which I took on the plane with me. I shipped the trunk air cargo. I kept the trunk, still filled with the extras, at the bottom of my dorm closet.</p>
<p>Fast forward 30 years for my son to go to school 5 hours away. We filled up the CRV, with a topper on top, with three totes for underbed storage, and a printer and vacuum cleaner. Son lives in a suite style dorm with his own bedroom and small kitchen. Went up two weeks later for parents weekend and brought a bookshelf and computer peripherals. When we picked him up unexpectedly in the end of April because of a tornado hitting the school, we were dumbfounded as to how we were going to get all this stuff home. We rented a small storage unit and filled it up with only son’s stuff. We are determined to bring only a tenth of what we brought next year and hope to bring most of the storage unit back home.</p>