<p>Things are under the beds which are high enough off the ground to accomdate a lot of stuff.</p>
<p>Here is a feeble question. I packed my clothes in a enormous suitcase when I left for school and they fit. Nither of my girls owns an enormous suitcase. What do your kids plan to pack their clothes in? Boxes?? A trunk seems like a fun idea. But I’m not thrilled with the idea of buying two. Boxes are what my kid suggested but will we look like the Joads?</p>
<p>Sneaking over from the 2010 thread since Jackief said we should check out your action to see how things are going.</p>
<p>We discovered a style of Vorando fan with a clip on end. We use them clipped on to the bookshelf in our home office and directed at the desk area. They have two speed settings and are easily adjustable. S even chose to use one in his bedroom to take up less space, so his is also clipped to the bookshelf.</p>
<p>historymom - I was thinking the same thing last night. Everyone else will have thiese nifty nder-bed plastic storage containers and she’ll move in with plastic bags from Stop and Shop and Rite-Aid!
PS D ordered the sheets from the campus linen service…we’ll see.
She’s keeping her purchases in S’s room until he gets back this weekend. After that, who knows??</p>
<p>Hahaha, the historyJoads. This is such a pet peeve of H’s - he can’t bear the thought. </p>
<p>Trunks can be awfully nice to have, depending on the room size. They do excellent double-duty as storage plus furniture. But I do understand not wanting to shell out for two. We didn’t actually buy D a trunk until she was packing to move OUT of her first-year room. She initially went off with a lot of her clothes in her good old (and I do mean old) LL Bean duffles - a couple of larges and one super-rolly one. They were easy to store under the bed, nested, with a few off-season things in the smallest.</p>
<p>Woody LOL. I guess we shold keep the big shopping bags we bring home from Kohls today eh?. I picture their roomates showing up with matching luggage and cute PBteen totes. At this juncture I am unwilling to spend the $$ to keep up with that but as usual I am probably borrowing trouble. We maybe can upgrade to Sterilite containers since we were going to buy a couple of those anyway. Something that screams “Bundy” rather than “Clampet”</p>
<p>What type of “luggage” do your kids use to travel home with? Son doesn’t want suitcases per se. I’m thinking duffels? Maybe rolling duffels? Talking about the trip home for Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc., not move in. Any good brands to look for?</p>
<p>Rolling duffle + backpack, usually. We really do like the LL Bean ones; they stand up to a lot of very hard use. I think D’s are ten years old and they still look decent.</p>
<p>Good idea Harriet, though I think I toseed the Nike Soccer Bag at the end of last season on account of the shin guard stench. I think we can scrape up enough luggage for one of the girls to have a gloriously mismatched set but that still leaves us short. </p>
<p>We will work it out. I do like the trunk idea. I don’t see them much in stores around here are they regional do you think</p>
<p>We took our older D to college with all her stuff in duffel bags; bought the rest of the things we needed (hangers, fan, etc.) when we arrived. She stored her stuff over the summers in the duffels, as well as in some plastic storage crates we got at Home Depot (the kind with the <em>folding</em> lids). These can be stacked when empty, and she kept them in the dorm’s “trunk room” when she wasn’t using them.</p>
<p>She traveled to and fro with one carry/roll-on suitcase (we all have a Rick Steves carry on size), and one large rolling duffel. I don’t remember what brand it is; we got it at an online sale. Just be careful of the weight, especially since many airlines are weighing bags and charging for overweight.</p>
<p><em>Gak</em> of sympathy on the shin guard stench. </p>
<p>We bought D’s trunk online; I hadn’t seen any in stores around here. I’m poking around to see if I have the place bookmarked. I’ll post it if I find it.</p>
<p>Edit: I don’t think this was it, somehow . . . but it made me laugh: <a href=“http://www.trunki.co.uk/[/url]”>http://www.trunki.co.uk/</a></p>
<p>Here you go; we bought it from these folks. It’s held up beautifully and D loves the wheels. <a href=“Trunks - Trunks made in the USA. A great trunk for camp or college.”>Trunks - Trunks made in the USA. A great trunk for camp or college.;
<p>I smile every time I log on here at the quantity of dorm supplies/clothes, etc. My son is such a minimalist, he’ll pack 15 tees, 3 jeans, 2 shorts, sock and underwear for 2 weeks, and his x-box. Finito. And he’ll probably only wear 10 of the tees!</p>
<p>We’ve come to a compromise about his dorm room - I’ll buy supplies for bed/bath, he and his roomies will figure out all the chairs/sofa/fridge/tv…I’m envisioning a lot of last minute shopping once we get there, but it is what it is!</p>
<p>All his stuff from here will fit into 1 or 2 suitcases (including the x-box). All the bedding stuff will be shipped or picked up near school.</p>
<p>Five weeks exactly to move-in day.</p>
<p>HMW what a great design!!! Should I order the tiger or the pink floral design do you suppose?</p>
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LOL, historymom :)</p>
<p>Honestly, I hadn’t even thought about this yet. D has a trunk for camp, but when packed it is VERY heavy. We have trouble getting it from the house into the car - I can’t imagine carrying it up stairs. </p>
<p>We’ve got some old LL Bean canvas luggage that would serve the purpose to get her there and she can travel back and forth with a rolling duffel.</p>
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<p>Hey they aren’t as pricey as I had thought! </p>
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<p>ohhhh PRJ I’m off to check out ebags.</p>
<p>I think in the long run they’re worth it. I would definitely recommend the kind that can have a wheel set attached for moving; D’s been able to get hers around entirely by herself when she needed to, thanks to the wheels. And I’ll vouch for the fact that getting the wheels in and out is really easy - even I could figure it out, and that’s saying something.</p>
<p>Wow - I’m offline for a couple of days and come back to this frenzy of shopping! The countdown has BEGUN.</p>
<p>Well, we’re all doing our bit for the economic stimulus, right?</p>
<p>I’ve generally packed a lot of things in stacking drawers–things like socks, tshirts, boxers, toiletries, school supplies, tools, etc. They are easy to carry upstairs and can be put away just as they are–just make sure to tape the drawers shut first! We have a rolling flat container that goes under the bed in which I pack the sheets and towels.</p>
<p>We have a large rolling duffel for bigger things like jeans and hoodies. Shirts go on hangers under a plastic trashbag. Soccer gear goes in the soccer bag. Everything else goes in one or two miscellaneous boxes.</p>
<p>My sons like to use a hanging sweater bag in the closet to fold their jeans/sweatpants etc because it saves a lot of space when mom helps unpack everything and put it away. After that, I’m sure the horizontal filing system takes over until a parental visit looms.</p>
<p>PBteen had a trunk on sale for $199 that looked to be of good quality. Also saw some at BBandB but they had a peculiar scent when one lifted the lid.</p>
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<p>I was thinking of doing that, too…just bringing the socks in the sock bin and the underwear in the underwear bin, etc. Since we will be driving the mini-van and Son will be driving his car, we’ll have plenty of room since no furniture is involved. I had even thought of bringing the hanging clothes already on the hangers. We’ll be moving in at 4pm in mid August in central Texas…Joad, Clampitt or upper crust, we’ll all be sweaty messes no matter how we transport the room contents.</p>