<p>How much do you spend on traveling home/shipping furniture, clothes, etc. each year?</p>
<p>Please state, if possible, how far you moved away. (California to New York, 400mi, etc.)</p>
<p>Thank you very much!</p>
<p>I'm from New York and I'll be attending Arizona State University next year so I'm also interested in the costs.</p>
<p>If you live in a dorm, you won't be needing to ship furniture and many college apartments also come furnished.</p>
<p>I'm from Western Canada and go to school in Philadelphia.</p>
<p>Tickets home cost roughly $600CDN for a round trip; the plan is to go home for Thanksgiving, Christmas and summer, so roughly $1800 per year.</p>
<p>I brought what I could through checked luggage on the plane, and then bought most things here in Philadelphia. Things I bought include bedding, a desk lamp, and kitchen supplies; probably spent a few hundred on that. I'm planning on renting storage space with some friends for the summer, instead of trying to ship everything back home.</p>
<p>Are you all able to pack "light" on your trips home and to college? (You're not charged extra at the airport for packing too much.) The "big" things I'm thinking of bringing to college are maybe a little a foam mattress (which is malleable so i can stuff it anywhere) plus bedding and a printer to go with my laptop.</p>
<p>I don't have a big wardrobe and I'm really good at packing. (I can fit 10 outfits in one tiny suitcase.)</p>
<p>well i have yet to complete a year here but i'll tell you a bit of what i can.</p>
<p>I moved from California to Montreal (somewhere around 3000 miles i believe)
Flying here is expensive. My ticket here was probably between 350-420 but that was bought pretty early.</p>
<p>My christmas roundtrip ticket was close to 1000 i think. Then another 400 probably for coming home when school gets out in april.</p>
<p>Clothes can probably change drastically depending on what type of environment you are moving from.
Where I'm from it snows for 20 minutes once every 15 years and the snow is gone with less than an hour. My summers are spent a lot inside since it's no fun when it's 103 degrees outside for 3 weeks straight with the occasional fluctuations up to like 112-113. </p>
<p>Montreal is the exact opposite. As far as I've heard and read it is the coldest MAJOR city in the world. Like recently it's been around -5 farenheit out, and supposedly on a few fateful days in january it will definitely get as low as -40, not including windchill.
So for me clothes shopping is a big MUST. I can't say how much I'll have spent yet because I still have to get some nicer winter coats and a handful of other stuff, but it's safe to say if you make a move from somewhere hot to somewhere really cold, it'll cost quite a bit to get the right gear</p>
<p>I moved from Tucson, AZ to Baltimore, MD and I payed about 150 bucks to get out there. + 70 to ship my bike. + 50 or so to ship bags. I guess 270 total transportation and shipping. There were a couple random expenses for the room, but not much. Computer paper, mattress pad, etc.</p>
<p>CT to CA for our college kid. We spent nothing on shipping anything initially. Two of us flew together and brought two large suitcases each (under 50 pounds each) with us. Each of us carried on a backpack, and one of us had an instrument case and the other a laptop computer. We bought all of the "bulky" things there (mattress pad, pillow, computer printer, desk lamps, toiletries). One of those four suitcases had the towels, sheets and comforter from home in it. Two had clothes, and the fourth had school supplies and my (the mom's) stuff for my four day trip.</p>
<p>Since then, I've shipped a few things. I used two fixed rate Priority mailing boxes to send a set of pots and pans and some bathroom "stuff" for an off campus house. Linens were ordered and shipped directly there.</p>
<p>Re: furniture...none came from here. Everything for the off campus house was bought used from the previous tenants...much less expensive than shipping and a LOT more convenient.</p>
<p>Travel...DD comes home at Christmas and at the end of the year. Round trip tickets this year are about $400 roundtrip each. She goes to relatives during the other two breaks...just an air shuttle of $100 roundtrip each time. Total travel about $1000 per year.</p>
<p>I moved from California to Fairbanks, Alaska.</p>
<p>Everything I brought up here initially, fit into my baggage allowance on Alaska Airlines. One laptop bag and one rollaboard wheeled case as my carryons, two big shipping boxes as checked luggage.</p>
<p>Get those vacuum-suck bags for bedding and clothes. I didn't believe they would really work, until I saw it with my own eyes. My huge down comforter shrunk down to about 1/4 of its original size!</p>
<p>I moved from NJ to California and have actually saved money over the semester. I initially brought summer/fall clothes with me along with phone chargers and all that jazz. My parents shipped a few odds and ends out for MAYBE $50 total shipping charges and when I cam home in October for a weekend I grabbed the few things I had left behind (this trip cost maybe $350 with food, travel, luggage, etc.). </p>
<p>By not having a car I actually saved money on gas which went towards very reasonable airfare.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>My daughter moved from Arizona to New York. We shipped stuff via federal express ground because after some very extensive comparative shopping LOL they actually were the cheapest. They go by the size of the box and not the weight...and as a previous poster had said those space saver bags really do work. I bought a one-way ticket for her trip there which cost about 200.00 dollars and then waited for some good deals for her fall break trip and her upcoming Christmas break (something you should start doing pretty early). She is not home for Thanksgiving as she is staying with relatives in New York. Probably after her six hour delayed ordeal on her last trip going back to New York she is happy just to stay there for the four days.</p>
<p>So much of how much you spend depends on the type and location of the college. D attends a small LAC the offers entertainment for free. There is only a Walmart and a few restaurants in town and so she spends very little. The shipping of items has been reasonable. We bought a bicycle once she was there at a local bike shop and they have offered to store it for free during the summer. The college allows some storage over the summer and there is a storage center where one can rent space for larger item storage. The big expense has been the airline tickets for breaks.</p>
<p>I will add that many of her friends attending the large public U's in our state spend quite a bit of money driving home on the weekend, maintaining cars and auto insurance, eating out (food often not good at big schools), shopping in the local malls and ordering clothing for parties, formals and "gametime" tickets and related purchases (clothes,etc). We still are spending more due to airline tickets-Thanksgiving was $400.00, fall break $200.00). However, the difference between staying local and traveling appears not to be as astronomical as we initially thought if you consider the other expenses associated with a closer school.</p>
<p>I am originally from Southern California, and currently go to Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA. I'm not sure about ticket prices anymore since gas prices went a bit down, but it's around $400 round-trip from LAX to ATL if you get the ticket a few months in advance.</p>
<p>My D is in NYC from CA. Airfare is ridiculously high, so I got in on a Southwest Airlines Visa card. Only problem is now SW doesn't fly out of NYC any longer (their closest airport is 50 miles and $45 worth of travel expense AND an extra 3 hours (r/t) to get to) so now I am in the process of "trading" the SW vouchers earned (for cash), so she can fly out of NYC. She plans on 2 trips home per year. One week during her 4 week winter break, and one week during summer. We do not (nor did we) ship anything to her. Whatever could fit in the luggage was it, anything else she's purchased there. No furniture (so far) as she's been lucky to rent furnished rooms.</p>
<p>Bedding, airfare (2x), winter necessities (not needed in CA), all combined...$1000. </p>
<p>Too high if you ask me. But then again she's in NYC, does it get better than that?</p>
<p>My D is in her first semester between N.Cal, and Durham N.C. We just bought winter break tickets for about $380.00 round trip. We paid $590.00 for the Thanksgiving trip, which was bought months in advance. When she and I initially traveled by air she paid $375.80 one way, and we packed all her clothes, and bought about $600.00 worth of stuff that was shipped "free" when purchased online, or bought locally.Not sure what will happen for spring break, but we expect her home for summer, and to store her stuff at my sisters home in Durham.</p>
<p>Our method was for my d and I to fly to campus with max luggage allowed then rent a car and purchase everything else. You can also order a lot of stuff online. We are far away so she only comes home at Christmas and summer.<br>
There are companies at a lot of schools who will store your belongings over the summer - boxmydorm.com, packmydorm.com, etc. These can be expensive but are a good solution for what to do with your stuff in the summer.<br>
How much stuff you accumulate is entirely a personal matter but it does tend to add up - bedding, towels, clothing, shoes, computer items are just the basics - take a look at the supply lists on this site!</p>
<p>For all of you with the high ticket prices please look into Continental Airlines and don't be afraid to have a connecting flight. </p>
<p>Round trip John Wayne Airport (Santa Ana, CA) to Newark, NJ to Philadelphia, PA (7.5 hour travel time MAX) </p>
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<p>Per Person Total: 235.50</p>
<p>Made one month in advance (that's after taxes and all that BS).</p>
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<p>My oldest is in Ithaca. From Chicago, the airfares are in the range of $300-500, depending on whether he's flying close to a holiday. This does not include the $50 round-trip bus to the major airport.
His expenses for furniture, etc., are kept to an absolute minimum. Most of his dorm rooms didn't have any extra space, and he didn't want the trouble of moving stuff. He stored his personal belongings, including winter clothes in a storage locker for the summers - a cost of maybe $30 when split with two or three friends. A big city would be more expensive.
His college has a yard sale in August where they sell/recycle things that kids have left behind. There are plenty of bargains on shelving and organizers, that sort of thing. Don't go overboard on items for your room. A comfortable bed, a warm coat and a good computer are the necessities.</p>
<p>As a freshman flew out from Seattle to Durham, NC with one parent (so four suitcases between us when you could bring two each for free). Bought everything else there. In subsequent years, flew out alone with two suitcases, as everything else was in storage. </p>
<p>I go back for winter break and summer ($250-300 round trip), as well as $200 flight at Thanksgiving to an aunt's house in the Northeast. Last year went home for Spring Break, this year going somewhere fun.</p>
<p>Buying stuff there is a lot cheaper than shipping it from home, which can get very expensive.</p>