<p>My roommates and I are disagreeing over the amount of stuff we should bring. Two of us are flying in, and are bringing a couple suitcases each. The third is driving in and...is filling a car and a trailer. </p>
<p>Any tactful ways to remind her that dorms are small? We'll be sharing space (it's a triple), so any overflow is going to be clutter for us all (as in, we can't just split the room in half), but I understand that she's nervous about having everything she needs.</p>
<p>Triple, as in 3 girls in one room? Wow.</p>
<p>Just let her bring the stuff, she'll realize when she gets there that there won't be enough room for everything. Her parents can bring the extra stuff home.</p>
<p>Your third roome sounds like me!!! I hope you weren't being serious about the trailer, but you do tend to bring more when you drive. You and the 2nd roomie are buying things when you get to school, right? Like mattress pads and desk lamps and other true essentials, right? She's probably considered the fact that you two are flying and won't have too much with you, so she's taking care of the tv, fridge and microwave (if it isn't provided or some other arrangement isn't made between the 3 of you). Is she saying that she's bringing any really out there things that there truly isn't space for? The biggest things I have volunteered to bring that could be considered extreme are a small 15" in diameter and 2 ft tall tv table, and a 6ft tall and 11" wide shelf-tower thing for next to our bunked beds. It would hold cell phones, pics of friends, late-night reading books, ect. Is this overkill? It's a serious question because my roomie hasn't given me too much indication about what she thinks of these items, and I don't want her to feel I'm hogging the room with my stuff. I have agreed (and WILL stick to) that if there isn't room for these things when we get in the room, I'll be okay with not using them. Any advice?</p>
<p>As for reminding you 3rd roomie about space, be direct. Just agree on the bigger things that she'll definately bring for you all to share, and gently tell her to try to keep the other stuff to a minimum.</p>
<p>CMUGal: Let her bring what she wants. I brought a pick up truck and a car full (and I mean FULL) and there was no **<strong><em>ing or need for *</em></strong>*ing.</p>
<p>Seeing as me and my roomie are lazy and guys, we haven't really discussed anything. We just decided on carpet color and we figured out that his dad has a fridge for us. After that, I have only done my personal shopping. I have no clue what we are bringing that we need to share. Considering we are only 35 minutes from home, I think we are going to pack pretty light for move in day, and then just get things as we need them.</p>
<p>I, for one, am taking a decently big bag of clothes, my 27" TV, bedding, school supplies, desk lamp, and hopefully a nice desk chair. That is really about it. No real furniture though. We will probably just sit the TV on the fridge.</p>
<p>Are you going to get there first? The good thing about her driving there is if she discovers she has way too much stuff, she can just send it back right away, or maybe take it home over Christmas break. I brought more stuff than my roommate, but about half as much as some of the other girls in the hall and I didn't use half of it anyway. All my stuff (barely) fit in the car, though.</p>
<p>As a rule of thumb I would say that extra furniture is probably not going to fit, unless you get a room that didn't come with much furniture to begin with.</p>
<p>im brining tons of stuff by car but i will send back anything that does not fit</p>
<p>girls = drama</p>
<p>This is true Citan, but you know it makes life more interesting. The tower thing I could live without, but without the TV table, either me or my roomie would loose their dresser top to the tv. It would probably be me since its my tv. I really don't want to do that, because then I would have no where else to put things. Any ideas?</p>
<p>We kept the tv on top of the heater unit (it stuck out by about 1.5 feet from the wall under the window). If you've got one of those in your room, or a wide windowsill, it's very useful. I guess if you've got a tv stand that's roughly the size of the tv itself and not some monstrous armoire thing you will be ok with some creative rearranging.</p>
<p>Like I said, it's a 13" tv, and the table top is 15" in diameter. It's not huge. I think I remember the windowsill being small, and I don't remember their being any heater at all. But I wasn't concerned with heaters when I was at my overnight orientation in June, in a room with no AC.</p>