Move-In Day Strategies

Consolation
Sun, 07 Aug 2016 19:58:51 +0000

2. If you’re lucky enough to help with making the bed, put two fitted sheets on the bed and two pillowcases on the pillow. In a few weeks, you can remind them that they’ll have “clean” sheets if they just remove the top layer. Especially important for sons who may not change their sheets all year.

This is just incredibly good advice! I wish I had thought of it when I made S’s bed freshman year.

I’ve noticed a tendency these days where people don’t want to sit with stuff at their feet or on their laps for a long time. Personally that never bothered us. If everyone (other than driver) needs to have a few bags on their laps or by their feet and be squished for an hour or so, oh well!

This brings back vivid memories of a two week camping trip to Newfoundland, with three adults and two children in a Ford Explorer, including two tents, five sleeping bags, one inflatable air mattress, the camp stove and cooking stuff, collapsible camp chairs, almost all of our food for the two weeks only some of which was in a large cooler*, and our clothes and what have you. Oh, and some firewood! We camped our way up, so one of the other adults and I became expert and packing and unpacking everything efficiently. Those of us condemned to spend the whole trip in the back seat (me and the children) were squished in with stuff and had bags (or firewood, or hiking boots, or whatever) under our feet the whole time. Now THAT was cramped!

The western penninsula of Newfoundland is pretty wild, and not replete with stores. You could go into a local store and the vegetable display would consist of two cabbages and a couple of green peppers. Literally.