How To Pack Your Dorm Room

The final week of my first year at college.

How to pack your dorm room. As an alternative to boxes use storage bins. Start Packing Up Before Finals. Sweep out the dorm room and mop off any obvious grunge.

Sterilite Storage Bins. This way when the day comes youll be on your way to packing loading and going much faster. Dont wait until the day before you move out to packyoull only maximize your stress.

Once you finish your. Unplug the mini-fridge and arrange for pickup. Pack similar items together to make it easier to unpack.

Theres a really good chance that you dont need half of the things that are cluttering up. Instead start packing during study breaks before finals weekbegin to empty closets and drawers take down decorations and if necessary defrost your mini fridge. So your child can check out.

Pull out the dorm checklist the university gave you last fall the one that lists existing damage and go over it with an RA. Youll learn that you have a very small space to pack for so its important to fill it full of items that youre going to want and need to use. If possible try to find the actual dimensions of the under-bed storage space in the specific dorm they are assigned to.

Take all your clothes on hangers and tie them together cover with a garbage bag for protection and you have homemade garment bags. Do you have boxes upon boxes of macaroni and cheese. Sometime before your finals begin buy the basic items that youll need things like moving boxes packing tape bubble wrap packing peanuts newspaper cleaning supplies etc.