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Originally Posted by alum
You may not need that UHaul. Bed, Bath and Beyond will allow you to buy items at any store and have it waiting at the store closest to the college. They also have lists online of the college housing restrictions in terms of allowed and forbidden small appliances, whether the dorms all have XL or regular length twin beds....
You also may want to check if the college provides summer storage or are there facilities nearby?
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We definitely did not do the U-Haul. Dorms, at least at the schools your daughter is interested in, have basic furniture like a bed, shelves, a desk, and occasionally a wardrobe. At the time I started college, however, you could still check 3 large bags at no additional cost...so, my father and I ended up packing a lot of stuff and flying it up. Still, most of that stuff was bedding, clothing, and smallish items like books. The lamps, computer, etc., we just picked up at Best Buy or BB&B once we arrived.
There was an option to rent fridges/microwaves from the school...they dropped them off in September and picked them up during the last few days of the Spring semester. Extremely convenient.
I had summer storage through the sorority but I think other students were able to get it as well.
Both my undergrad and the undergrad of the university that I attended for graduate school have large numbers of international students and kids from all over the US--so they made things like delivery of items and rental of small appliances extremely easy.
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