when to start dorm room shopping

intparent
Wed, 28 Jan 2015 03:12:01 +0000

It depends. Some people like to shop at Bed, Bath, and Beyond, and then pick up what they ordered at a B, B, and Beyond near their campus. That isn’t what we did, though. My youngest goes to college in California, and we live in the Midwest. So we did the following:

We flew Southwest Airlines to start with. 2 bags checked free. So if you fly with a parent, you can take 2 bags, your parent can take one for you, then they have their own bag.

We also shipped her bedding and towels ahead of time. The school emailed her school mailbox number and address to her about halfway through the summer, and we shipped them so they would arrive about a week before we got there.

You can just plan to go to a Target near your campus when you get there, but things can be kind of picked over by the time you get there.