Move-In Day Strategies

techmom99
Mon, 08 Aug 2016 04:01:28 +0000

If your child’s school offers a trip or activity that starts a few days early, take advantage of it. There are alot fewer people moving in. We moved D in a week early. Her first dorm room was on the second floor, so she set herself up at the window and stuck out a broom handle. Her tallest brother stood on a crate and attached light bags to the broom and she lifted stuff into the room. It was hysterical. The next years she was an RA and also moved in early. When our son enrolled there, we signed him up for the trip and dropped them both off a week early. Move in began at 8 AM and the meet up for the trip was at 9, so our good-bye time was limited. The year my son went, my daughter helped him set up his room when he got back from the trip.

When we had to use elevators, we did a relay. My husband, who has bad knees, would unload with one son, who would hand the stuff off to another at the building entrance. That one brought the stuff in and to the elevator while the youngest one rode the elevator up with the stuff to the floor, where my daughter and I waited to unload and move the stuff into the room. It does help to have 4 sons when you need to move a child into college.

Both of my kids are not into things. Every year at move out time, my daughter organized a clothing and stuff swap with friends; anything not taken was donated to a thrift shop or other charity.

My husband also gave both of them a tool kit and a basic first aid kit.