<p>i'm driving to school next week with all of my stuff but i don't now what people typically pack it in... ?</p>
<p>I used a combination of bankers boxes, the plastic bins I’d bought for storage in my room, and garbage bags.</p>
<p>This year I hope I am getting luggage for my birthday but I am still probably going to bring most of my stuff in garbage bags. They’re convenient because you can throw them away afterward. You don’t have room to keep a ton of suitcases.</p>
<p>I packed my stuff in a footlocker and bags. I use the footlocker as extra storage and as a place to put my laptop on to watch videos when I’m laying in bed.</p>
<p>Got extra travel bags lying around?</p>
<p>I pack nearly everything in two giant roller bags, plus a smaller roller bag. And a few more bags too, but I drive to school (700 miles though… yeesh), so I take whatever can fit in my car.</p>
<p>When I moved out I packed everything into 3 bins- one had all my clothes, one had DVDs/CDs and make-up, and one had different odds and ins from my room. I was going over 600 miles away so I wasn’t going to be going back home anytime soon, so I had to take everything at once. </p>
<p>I also used whatever random bags I could find. Even an empty trash can ended up being storage space.</p>
<p>The annoying thing about the bins is that you have to have room to store them wherever you’re living. But if you’re creative, storage bins can become furniture- extra seating, coffee table, or a dresser, haha!</p>
<p>I used a few giant 50-gallon 2-mil garbage bags. They’re tough enough as-is and can hold hundreds of pounds without breaking. If in doubt, I double-bag them. Note that they’re already five times thicker than your avearge bag.</p>
<p>Garbage bags are king man, especially if you have a small car like I do. Can really smash stuff in there that way.</p>
<p>some plastic bins are definitely helpful for packing and storage once you are at college.</p>
<p>Oh- another thing that saves a TON of room:
Space bags, the things you see on tv.</p>
<p>yes, they do actually work. Your clothes might get a bit wrinkly, but nothing that doesn’t come out easily.</p>
<p>You can also get large ziploc bags and squish them as you are closing the zipper.</p>
<p>Our dau had a couple of flat rubbermaid boxes, the kind you slide under your bed, for things like winter clothes, the second set of sheets, etc. And check out the desk and chair the school gives you. If it is not ergonomic for lots of computer use, go to the local Staples and buy a cheap chair that is. Dau learned the hard way she should have dumped the low-rise the univ gave them and gotten her own desk chair. Now her wrists are injured for life. </p>
<p>Another thing to do is look hard at your stuff and ask how much of this do I really need to drive to college with me? Usually the answer is, less than you think!</p>
<p>Where is a good place to get a cheap but comfortable desk chair? I can’t even think of somewhere I’ve seen chairs besides officemax, and they must come cheaper than that?</p>
<p>You can go to Staples, Office Max & such–you can try Target but I wd not be so sure abt how really ergo they are. You can also look on Amazon; you might find some from various vendors there. </p>
<p>The thing we did was (after she hurt her wrists) went to Office Depot or Max, whichever it was, chose a chair from among the floor models, and ordered. But we had it sent to the store nearest the school, and we picked it up there a week later when we got there. </p>
<p>“Cheap” is not what matters the most–what matters the most is you have to protect your wrists and back. We spent close to $90 on it & that was 8 yr ago. I think good enough ones run around the same today. </p>
<p>She also got a desk – and she is still using that desk as her work desk, and the same chair, too–in a corner of her living room. The desk was one with a tray that dropped down for the keyboard, but the whole thing was modern looking and best thing was, it came apart with a little help from a screwdriver – she could store it at the college’s storeroom, and it was easy to move from one apt to another. </p>
<p>btw if you do have to take furniture apart to move or store it, put the screws, bolts, etc in a baggie, twist it closed, & tape the baggie where it was twisted, to the bottom of the item. Tape it on really well. And before you do that, make a label saying what table, desk, shelf, etc the screws are for, and put it in the baggie with the screws. So in case it comes off, whoever finds it knows what they are for. </p>
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<p>Why are you moving in now, it’s so early!</p>
<p>light- a lot of people move in super early. Either for sports, greek life (I know a few schools like that), a research project, scholarship program, etc.</p>