<p>So my recently graduated D just informed us that after over a month of us “nagging” her to start shipping things home she has way too much to deal with and now only four work days to deal with it.</p>
<p>Apparently after putting together eight boxes she still has far too much to fit in her car and feels it will be too costly to ship however many boxes would be required for the remaining things (plus the eight that have never been sent).</p>
<p>She doesn’t have furniture only clothes (far too many), pots, pans dishes, a flat screen and artwork from her apartment but the quantity is too much to fit in her little crossover SUV.</p>
<p>Does anyone know of any way to get her things from Columbia SC to Dallas other than using a POD which is far too big for her needs? I don’t have the time or ability to fly and rent a trailer to try to her get things back and I am pretty sure her car would not tow a trailer that far anyway.</p>
<p>Let her handle it. She should sell anything she doesn’t really need and pack up the rest and ship it via UPS. Or she can rent a trailer herself. If she graduated from college, she presumably has the brains to solve this problem herself.</p>
<p>This could be one of those-pay it forward times-where she gives away items to other undergrads who need it for their “first” apt, or homeless shelters.</p>
<p>I just used this website (uship) to move a couple of old pieces of furniture from NJ to upstate NY. Would have cost me about $400 to get a truck and pay for gas, cost me $200 to have stuff picked up and brought to me. It is somewhat similar to ebay - movers bid on the shipments. The only problem might be the timing but I was able to get things moved within 1 week from posting the ad.</p>
<p>OP - She’s an adult now. She’s lived out-of-state. She has a car. She has money. She has time. She’s intelligent. And you’ve suggested several viable options. My suggestion is to grab your clubs and head out to the golf course. (And leave your cell phone at home!) JMHO of course.</p>
<p>I can 2nd the use of a soft car top carrier. Presumably she has a roof-rack? Makes it even easier. We used a soft car top carrier. </p>
<p>The amount of clothes and bedding that could be stuffed into one was staggering. Particularly since it sounds like clothes are one issue for your D, I’d really suggest it. This solution was beyond useful when our D (also with way too much stuff, mostly clothes) had to go back and forth from Texas for school from Atlanta. </p>
<p>We ordered our soft top carrier online which doesn’t sound like an option based on your post/timing, but the brand I think was Kangaroo? It was around $70 and was also used for S’s first year move-in. It folds down really small when not in use.</p>
<p>Highly recommend.</p>
<p>PS One other thing–if your D has so much “soft” stuff, she’d be much better off packing those in the large black trash bags rather than hard-sided boxes.
Our SUVs were packed to the gills when both kids went off to school, but we didn’t use many boxes since they tended to be space hogs and minimzed rather than maximzed the usable packing space in the vehicle.</p>
<p>Also tell her to get some of those large or extra large Space Packs- the ones where you vacuum out the air and reduce the pile of clothes into a pancake! It only takes a few seconds. They saved us when driving son home from graduation because we had all of his stuff plus the whole family in a van. Made it by just inches…</p>
<p>We got a soft roof top bag for our car from Target, not very expensive. Might be a good option. Maybe the space bags (also from target) could help fit into the carrier.</p>
<p>Tough lesson, but one that you all saw coming, I guess.</p>
<p>So my recently graduated D just informed us that after over a month of us “nagging” her to start shipping things home she has way too much to deal with and now only four work days to deal with it.</p>
<p>But really. Do you still want to be " nagging" your adult child?</p>
<p>My husband’s best line when he hears of such (avoidable) problems…“well, good luck with that”…tone of voice is important, must sound sympathetic. And then, my best line is to advise you to turn off your cell phone as the hours dwindle down toward her problem solving. </p>
<p>Is it possible that she take a load to her new school town and put it in storage, then come back for the rest?</p>
<p>When my daughter graduated, we were there to help her move back home. She did pack before we arrived for the weekend festivities, and my husband felt everything would fit into her small SUV. After we got the grandparents off on Monday, we began loading the car. It was obvious that everything would not fit, although my husband was determined to make it work. We unloaded what was in the car and had to decide what could be shipped; linens, shoes (think Imelda Marcos,) and other soft items. Her desk chair had to stay, as well as a few other items. I was looking at the price of what we left behind, my husband was looking at size!</p>
<p>Your daughter should be able to get boxes, pack them, and then go to UPS and ship them in only a few hours. If she really wants the items, she will figure out how to get them in the car or shipped home.</p>
<p>S who is leaving U South Carolina is packing what he can in his Jeep and heading to Vegas for his final internship.He’s purging (his older sister’s terminology)the rest. Furniture/bike to roomates remaining in the area,excess clothes to Goodwill. No flat screen TV just an old 20 ".He’ll rent something furnished in Vegas until he knows whats next after the few months.He says the kitchenware mostly wasnt worth saving as it had been cheap 2,3 or 4 years ago.
he’s doing it himself,H is meeting him partways across the south to do the drive.</p>
<p>If my knuckle head son can get his stuff out of his dorm room and into a storage unit, making it to his flight, I’m sure your D will manage somehow. My son has no car either.</p>