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Northeastmom
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Posted: Tue May 1st, 2007 03:16 pm |
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Try to bring a hand-truck if traveling by car. Ours folds up, so it did not take much space and made moving in much easier. Son's roommate used it to move in the fridge. I was able to stack 4 large boxes at a time to bring into the room. After we were moved in, others borrowed it from us. We found ours at Lowe's (cost was about $40).
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=171232-26675-H003A&lpage=none
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mackinaw
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Posted: Tue May 1st, 2007 04:30 pm |
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We had almost no boxes. Almost everything we took in the car was in double-thick large plastic garbage bags. This allowed us to maximize the use of space in the car (minivan). Masking tape with name of student, dorm name and room number, in indelible ink on every bag. Number the bags and note the content on a list somewhere, in case things are mislaid or simply for the sake of taking inventory.
At most schools the "drop off" outside the dorms works well enough that you don't need a hand cart (but check in advance at your school); teams of current students take stuff at the curb and deliver it to your room. Also, the garbage bags were usable or reusable.
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CarolynLawrence
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Posted: Tue May 1st, 2007 05:13 pm |
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Northeastmom wrote: Try to bring a hand-truck if traveling by car.
My husband found a light weight foldable one at Staples that fit nicely in his 24 inch suitcase. It was invaluable!
Carolyn
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Lynda
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Posted: Wed May 2nd, 2007 12:07 am |
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I still have one of those collapsible suitcase carriers-from the old days. It comes in handy carring the cinder blocks on flat surfaces. The college does have several hand trucks available, I was glad I didn't buy one for move-in day. Redlands, like many other schools has lots of students waiting to help carry stuff into the dorms.
Irons are not allowed in son's dorm-but they have ironing boards available so??? A girl on son's freshman floor was very popular because she had an iron others could borrow. Son used to lend out his electric teapot-shuts off automatically, cord is on base not the teapot. Microwaves were not allowed in the dorms-blows out the fuses.
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CarolynLawrence
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Posted: Wed May 2nd, 2007 12:15 am |
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An iron is not something my daughter will ever require.  My son, on the other hand, wouldn't be opposed to borrowing one from the cute girl down the hall...or even better, getting the cute girl to iron his shirt for him.
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CalifCarolyn
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Posted: Wed May 2nd, 2007 01:30 am |
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Northeastern hires a moving company to help tote stuff it was wonderful we drove up in the taxi, unloaded stuff from the trunk and the movers took it from there sooooo nice....
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CarolynLawrence
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Posted: Wed May 2nd, 2007 01:32 am |
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Now THAT's a nice perk, Carolyn! But do they pack it up for you at the end of the year? >LOL<
My husband is flying out this weekend to help my daughter get all her stuff packed and put into storage. He is expecting to find her room in a total state of disarray. To him, putting disarray into order is a wonderful vacation. I'd prefer not to know (When I visited daughter in April, I kept contact with her room to a minimum...)
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Posted: Wed May 2nd, 2007 01:23 pm |
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For incoming freshmen, d's school arranges for upperclassmen to help in a big way. They meet your car, put stickers with d's name and room on everything, shoo you away, and the stuff magically gets put in her room! Looking forward to that!
Of course, they then say that for sophomore year, you're on your own! 
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TooTiredMom
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Posted: Thu May 3rd, 2007 09:03 pm |
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I ventured into BBB today to look around. For those folks that have outfitted a dorm bed I could use some help.
Sheets come in various sizes as far as depth of the fitted sheet. I noticed fitted sheets that say they fit mattresses anywhere from 12 in to 18 in. I am assuming deeper sheets are better- but how deep is enough for dorm mattresses and the various other things put on top?
What is the whole order of things on the bed anyway? I guess first comes wrapping the mattress in a protective cover. Then do folks put a mattress pad on top of that followed by a fitted sheet over everything? Or does the pad go under the cover? We do not use mattress pads at home but I would think college mattresses are not really comfortable.
Lastly, what combination of top sheet, comforter, blanket do most boys use? S only uses a top sheet at home and never a comforter. Should he have one at school as a quick way of covering up the bed and maybe keeping it somewhat clean?
I know these are pretty minute details but I thought I would ask from those that have done this before. Thanks
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CalifCarolyn
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Posted: Thu May 3rd, 2007 09:15 pm |
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tootiredMom---
re: sheet sizes look on the school web site after he receives his dorm assignment to see what length his bed wiil be. My D wanted a feather bed cover (because she has one at home) so we got her the deep pocket sheets. Re:the order of putting things on the bed we used an old fitted sheet to cover the mattress then put the mattress pad over that followed by the feather bed, then the sheets. Now I have a girl who uses a sheet, blanket and comforter. My D who will be a freshman had me make her a quilt using her old t-shirts, matching pillow cases etc.... she is a real girly girl .
best bet...ask your son my nephew only wanted a bottom sheet and a comforter and pillows. that was a compromise he told my brother a sleeping bag would do 
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Posted: Thu May 3rd, 2007 09:55 pm |
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CalifCarolyn wrote:
best bet...ask your son my nephew only wanted a bottom sheet and a comforter and pillows. that was a compromise he told my brother a sleeping bag would do
We've been using just a fitted sheet with down comforter and cover since we put our old house on the market five years ago. I just couldn't face making sure all the beds were made with flat sheets, bedspreads, etc. So that's what my kids like now. (And you just have to waft the comforter into the air and let it settle into the right place to make the bed!)
S's school does state that mattresses are 80 in., which I think is the long twin. Sigh.
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Posted: Thu May 3rd, 2007 11:31 pm |
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carolyn asks: do they pack it for you at the end of the year?
At Dartmouth, yes, for a small pittance. Kids just have to hustle their "suff" down to a central campus location on the appointed days and locals from True Value will bubble wrap, pack, box, ship and/or store for the summer; storage prices are CHEAP. They'll even defrost the frig (so it doesn't flood their wharehouse).
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CarolynLawrence
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Posted: Fri May 4th, 2007 12:04 am |
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I want to send my next kid to Dartmouth. 
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Posted: Fri May 4th, 2007 12:05 am |
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limner - In Germany (and everywhere we went in Europe) they don't use top sheets - just the down comforter in a duvet cover. We minded this a lot when we were in the hotel waiting for our own things to arrive. The comforter is either too warm or too cold! I like a light sheet. Especially because there was no a/c and no screens on the window, so to get any kind of breeze in the summer also meant lots of mosquitoes.
However, to make the bed, the maid would come in, shake the comforter sideways and fold it in half across the bed. Took all of two seconds or so.
The other reason I missed sheets was that I had no guarantee they ever washed the duvet covers between customers, and there's something gross about that, to my way of thinking.
My boys both like sheets between skin and comforter, because they are much easier to wash than the comforter. I think my S1 didn't wash his comforter all four years of college. It was from his bed at home, so it was even older than that (but had been washed!) He threw it out when he graduated.
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Posted: Fri May 4th, 2007 12:11 am |
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binx, my mom was English, so we'd definitely done the sans-flat sheet thing before. I tend to use flat sheets for our bed, but my kids still like the duvet plus cover set-up.
I have to laugh at your S tossing out the comforter after four years of no washing--no muss, no fuss, well, maybe some muss.
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Posted: Fri May 4th, 2007 02:13 pm |
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Did I ever share this story about helping my S move out after graduation?
He shared a large house with a bunch of other males. (You're getting a picture already, aren't you?) Their vacuum cleaner had broken some months before, and I actually went around the edges of some of the rooms and PEELED the dust out of the corners.
I was cleaning up papers and boxes of stored stuff that were in the corner of S's room, under his computer table. I found a dead mouse, and screamed. S looked up from what he was doing and asked me what was wrong. I said there was a dead mouse on the floor. He smiled and said, "Really! That makes 16!"
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Posted: Fri May 4th, 2007 03:27 pm |
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binx wrote: Did I ever share this story about helping my S move out after graduation?
I was cleaning up papers and boxes of stored stuff that were in the corner of S's room, under his computer table. I found a dead mouse, and screamed. S looked up from what he was doing and asked me what was wrong. I said there was a dead mouse on the floor. He smiled and said, "Really! That makes 16!"
LOL last night our cat was playing with something in OUR kitchen and yup it was a dead mouse.....there is construction going on in the nearby flood control channel
that prompted my older D to tell us about the mice in her dorm in Boston and a funny story about girls from another room bringing a Trader Joes bag to their door and asking my D and her roomie "What do we do there is a Mouse in this bag" the 4 of them took it downstairs to the RA I can picture the 4 of them taking this bag on the elevator to the 1st floor..
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Posted: Fri May 4th, 2007 03:47 pm |
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binx- too funny!
Califcarolyn - thanks. The problem with S's school is the students are put in "temp" dorm rooms when they show up to school in Aug. After freshmen orientation, they 'rush' the different dorms. At the end of the rush period, they move their stuff. They then 'rush' the different floors in the new dorm and move again.
We have no idea what his dorm room will be until after we drop him off. The students are not allowed to unpack their stuff until they have moved for the final time. So, he will not know beforehand what comes in the room- if there will be a closet or wardrobe, shelves or no shelves, regular beds or bunk beds etc. This is very difficult to buy for.
Since H and I will be long gone when the time comes for him to unpack I can very much see him just living out of his boxes for the year and never really setting up his room. Unfortunately the school is not within driving distance, I think it is about 25 hours by car. I have heard some parents skip orientation and show up later but I have not really been to the school and want to hear all the info sessions they will hold for the parents during orientation weekend.
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Posted: Fri May 4th, 2007 04:21 pm |
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CalifCarolyn wrote: that prompted my older D to tell us about the mice in her dorm in Boston and a funny story about girls from another room bringing a Trader Joes bag to their door and asking my D and her roomie "What do we do there is a Mouse in this bag" the 4 of them took it downstairs to the RA I can picture the 4 of them taking this bag on the elevator to the 1st floor..
Mice at Northeastern! Tell me it ain't so! What floor was she on?
Many years ago, I had a 9th floor apartment in downtown Boston with a lovely balcony that I used all the time. I kept the balcony door open in good weather even though there was no screen because insects can't go that high up. Then one day someone told me that mice and rats can scale the outside of a 10 story building. Never opened the door again.
Should I send DS with sticky traps?
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jocelynDAD
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Posted: Fri May 4th, 2007 04:26 pm |
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This topic ranges from amazing to amusing!
As we get ready for our 7th child to enter senior year and our 6th child to complete her first year at college, reading these posts cause me both to laugh and moan at the same time.
While my W worries about some of the same concerns as posted here, sheet size, top sheet, comforters, boxes for storage, kits (tools) - (first aid) - (sewing).etc, I just shake my head.
The dust in the corners story, reminds me of our S2 and his dorm room at Lafayette, with dust and old T-shirt co-mingled (very happily I am sure). When he and 5 buddies got an off campus house for the next trwo years, he learned quick enough to clean up and so forth.
S1 was a neat freak of the first order, his dorm closet was organized to a fault.
S3 at Wash U. changed roommates in the first semester, his new roommate had an extensive collection of sweaters, jackets etc. They were the same built - so sharing became the norm.
Since our oldest were the three boys, none of these concerns really surfaced. They got to college, happy to have a bed and a door lock and someplace to put their clothes. It was not until our oldest D went to college that sheets and such became a topic of planning.
BTW, all survived, each with their own style.
I do think all of our budding students will do the same.
It is hard to see them go off on their own, but they will and they must. Worrying about them is a life long 'pleasure' for a parent!
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