<p>Try freecycle. You can donate/give away the stuff.</p>
<p>We ran into the getting rid of furniture dilemma with my older kid. I encouraged him to put up Craigslists ads - this worked well for some things and one responder offered to take stuff free at the end. He also posted on Facebook - I don’t remember if this helped but it could have if the timing had been better.</p>
<p>It would have been great to contact the next people coming into the apartment ahead of time. They would have taken the stuff. The landlord would have given the information out.</p>
<p>He did get some of his security deposit taken for putting recycling in the trash. Very hard to prove the negative of that.</p>
<p>I’d either go with Craiglist or leaving stuff at the curb. These days items left at the curb get picked up pretty quickly, especially if they’re in decent condition.</p>
<p>S is taking stuff to Goodwill, which is right up the street from his apartment. I hate seeing the dumpsters full of plastic on move-out day. Luckily, his apartment is furnished, but he does have a bookcase, lamp, closet stuff, etc. He says he’s going to ship his winter clothes home soon. Yikes! I need to clean out attic space.</p>
<p>We sound like we did four years ago on one of those “How do we take stuff to college?” threads.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the good ideas. If he can’t sell everything, calling Salvation Army would be easy.</p>
<p>In S2’s college town, it’s pretty much tradition to leave it out in the curb. S2 has a couple of things in his house that they picked up “curb shopping”. If they leave it on the curb and no one takes it, the city trucks come around to load it up and haul it away.
The dresser in S2 rental house bedroom was there when he moved it so he plans to leave it when he moves out. The house was a wreck when they moved in and even more so now.
Doubt the landlord even remembers there was a deposit. They’ve lived there for three years and never renewed the lease after the first year!</p>
<p>We’re trying to figure out what to do with D’s furniture also. She bought most of it from the previous tenant, and it’s only a few years old. She’ll be home for a few months this summer before her job starts. Not sure if it’s worth moving it home, storing it in my basement and then moving it to her new city a few months later. She does have a moving allowance that will cover the second move. If she doesn’t keep it, she’ll try to sell what she can to the new tenants.</p>
<p>I believe S has lived like a hermit this year, and has pretty much no furniture:). We’ll be staying with family for the graduation, so all the remains are flights. Flights and then becoming a mother with no one in school. For the moment.</p>
<p>I think my S plans to store a few pieces of furniture, lamps, etc. for the summer, since he’ll start working in the same city in September. Other furniture in his house (mostly couches that look like they should be out in front of a frat house) will be left behind for the next group of boys to inherit the house.</p>
<p>It sounds like the girls have the nice stuff and the boys have the crap ;)</p>
<p>^^That would be a nice way of describing S2’s hovel. It’s indescribably awful.</p>
<p>just heard terrific news from my senior s, he received a wonderful job offer for what he calls his “dream job”. He’s such a humble young man and didn’t know if his 3 very challenging interviews (all via phone) with PhD economists went well until he got the call today, yep Sunday, with the job offer. Excellent position doing research, in an ideal location. Very proud of his hard work and so excited as this will be a wonderful opportunity in so many ways.</p>
<p>awww…that’s great myturnnow…congratulations to you and your son!</p>
<p>Woohoo!!! Congrats on the great news!!!</p>
<p>Phone interviews!? That would have been tough. Congratulations.</p>
<p>Congrats Myturnnow. It doesn’t get better than a “dream job in an ideal location!”</p>
<p>thank you! He called last night having received an email from the VP who was traveling in the UK, asking if he could talk today. My S asked if I thought the call would be to tell him he didn’t get the position. I confidently said, of course not, that’s never a VP’s job. otoh I never thought he’d receive a job offer sight unseen. Think his professor’s recommendation (when he was called) was very helpful, my S did research with this prof and it was similar to the work this organization conducts. It is very exciting to see your kid so jazzed about their future. Good luck to all here, hope this is a lucky week for your kids too!</p>
<p>Congratulations! Best wishes to your son. I bet he feels so great now, and can really enjoy these last few months in college.</p>
<p>Congrats to you and your son. What great news.</p>
<p>myturnnow, congratulations to your S. My S is also graduating and I’ve been surprised that in his field also the procedures for hiring rely on phone interviews. The steps (which may stop at any point the co. stops being interested) seem to be 1) portfolio submission 2) in depth phone interview 3) test (!) sent by email or on internet, and if lucky 4) in person interview. Anyone else seeing different patterns than back when we were job searching after college?</p>