<p>Packing and transporting your stuff out of the dorms suck; it's so d*mn tiring.</p>
<p>Some people chuck it out the window. My mom said people used to throw stuff out their windows they didn't want anymore. Even a desk came out of a dorm window once.</p>
<p>Packing isn't so bad. Put all your stuff in grocery bags since boxes will be scarce and load it into your trunk/truck/minivan/SUV/moving van/U-Haul. If you think you have a lot call both parents so they can both bring cars up. When I moved out of my dorm I filled up a 2004 Toyota Highlander with all the seats down and the trunk and every spare seat of a 2006 Honda Civic. I really needed a U-Haul. It fit better going up because we took a 2004 Honda Accord instead of that Civic.</p>
<p>Thanks for giving us the years of each car....wouldnt have known what u were talkin about if u didnt.</p>
<p>Thow stuff out the window? Isn't that kind of dangerous for people walking by?</p>
<p>What's worse is that thousands of students within the same campus are moving out on the same days. </p>
<p>Be careful about student theft, by the way. Not to sound paranoid or anything, but when you're moving out you're not exactly keeping watch over each of your thirty boxes/bags/suitcases whatever. It's incredibly easy for someone to swipe random stuff from you while you're preoccupied trying to load a car, drag something down the stairs, haul your bags across the hall etc. And how would you find a thief among hundreds of students and their parents roaming around your dorm with their own boxes and bags?</p>
<p>Anyway, good luck to everyone. I moved out just yesterday and I'm still recovering.</p>
<p>.... Also... if you think moving out sucks, just wait till you get home and realize you actually have to put all this stuff somewhere... Even if you decide to chuck most of it in a storage warehouse or something, you still have to sift through stuff to determine what can be stored over the summer, what should be tossed out, and what you might need or want in your own room at home.</p>
<p>I already had too much random junk in my room at home, bringing back MORE random dorm stuff after the semester ended made me worry that the second floor of our house was going to give way or something...</p>
<p>well, the ppl with cars are lucky...try fitting everything into two suitcase luggages, making sure each is under 50 lbs, that nothing breaks, and carrying that to the airport, along with a 20 lb stuffed backpack, 30 lb carry-on item, and a laptop suitcase, while dealing with airport security, etc.</p>
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<p>that was funny..but good point</p>
<p>thats why im glad i am staying here over the summer - so I just move my stuff right into where im staying for the next year, which is practically right next door and dont have to worry about bringing it home or storing it and then moving in again next yr</p>
<p>I would say the part of move out day that sucks is parting with a group people that you have lived so closely for a year, rather than the physical aspect of moving things out.</p>
<p>Yeah.....flying back sucks....especially if u have heavy cabin luggage and have a 8 hr transit...</p>
<p>That was my situation (a total of 35lbs of cabin luggage!!)</p>
<p>OMGoodness! NOW i wish I had gone to school close enough to drive to. This flying-luggage-thing STINKS! I spent 12 hours packing today (I started from scratch around noon-thirty...finished up at 130 in the AM... including dinner) I managed to take down all my posters, lights, pack up my boxes for storage, go to Kinkos twice, load up two check pieces (43 pounds each....ugh) and two carry-ons. I also had to ship two boxes home. It was exhausting, dirty, sweaty, and lonnnnng. I hauled my 5 storage boxes out of my building, over to my new one only to find out storage is full and I had to haul them over to a different building. and they were HEAVY. Im going to be very sore in the morning. :) But, for now, IM pulling an all nighter to finish a paper due monday and sleeping on my airplane tomorrow. I am glad it is only a 2.5 hour flight and not 8, but next time, its going to be an afternoon flight, and not a morning one. </p>
<p>Rubbermaid makes my life! and Kinkos being also a Fedex open 24 hours!!!...
We walked into Kinkos at midnight-thirty and threw a bunch of stuff on the counter and said... we need boxes... amusing after a long day. </p>
<p>Good luck packing to everyone else!</p>
<p>Wow things are SO different. For the 6 years I was away at school, every year, I'd fly home with all my worldly possessions (except my used, clunker bike). It fit into 4 orange/apple boxes (larger than copy paper boxes), plus light backpack carryon. I checked them onto the plane & they were considered my two pieces of luggage (I used strapping tape to hold them together). I'm not sure how much they weighed. Every fall, I'd go back to school with the same stuff. Tended not to acquire much & sold bike upon graduation, to buy another used bike at the next campus. Life was much simpler that way (my undergrad college even furnished bedding & blankets for the dorm).</p>
<p>I've read that several schools store possessions for a fee OR folks have to figure out how they want to store their things--at a friend's place for a fee OR bring them home.</p>
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<p>Do any of you out-of-staters ship your stuff? (like via FedEx or whatever)</p>
<p>I might have to b/c even though I'm in-state, I'm interning in a different city than where I live and where I go to college (three different cities in total), and trying to figure out what I'm bringing where is becoming a nightmare..</p>
<p>I aould suggest looking up the storage companies/facilities where your college is located. </p>
<p>They are relatively inexpensive (about $30 per month) You pack up all of your boxes, they pick it up from your dorm and deliver it back in the fall.</p>
<p>Last year we stored, her fridge, trunks and some boxes, it was well worth the money when it came to the alternative (shipping charges, overweight luggage, and trying to get it all in your car).</p>
<p>This year she is coming home for mother's day and will bring home all of her winter stuff. Then she will bring some clothes home in june before returning to school for summer session. At the end of summer session, whatever she does not need will once again go into storage.</p>
<p>I would add the following about moving in/out, concerning etiquette (<em>please</em> don't be THIS family): on our moving out day one particular family held the dorm's only elevator captive on their D's floor while they loaded all, and I do mean ALL, of her stuff, then arrived on the ground floor and leisurely unloaded everything while at least 4 families and some other students were waiting to board the elevator!</p>
<p>oh it does suck! I brought home a car full (96 Buick Century to keep w/ the theme) last weekend and will have another even more crammed car this weekend. That SHOULD get all of my stuff home. I don't have a plan for if it doesn't.</p>
<p>I'm staying for the summer, so I will just move four doors away and stay there until the end of next year. </p>
<p>Woohoo!</p>
<p>I've heard of people throwing away stuff completely, but i think it's a better idea to consider donating the stuff you definitely do not need anymore. I think the biggest problem is my blanket, lol, I didn't bring much up to California but the basics so i don't have a load of stuff to carry, but this darn blanket/pillow that I don't know what to do with! Student storage here is a rip off, and I don't want to roll it up and carry it under my arm and take it all the way back to Texas... stupid blanket.</p>
<p>Why not donate it & buy a new one when you came back to campus? I'm sure there are many who would appreciate it, including the homeless or low income folks of LA. It would seem silly to take it back & forth to TX--on the other hand, it would be comfortable for the car/plane ride to snuggle with.</p>