The Student Room Group
Remember that you can probably send back excess bags with whoever's taking you to uni so they wouldn't have to clutter your room
I'm taking one big suitcase (the kind with wheels) and I'm shipping one box. I'm overseas, so I can't take as much stuff as most people.
Reply 3
awkward_eagle
Remember that you can probably send back excess bags with whoever's taking you to uni so they wouldn't have to clutter your room


But then you'll need the bags to re-pack when you go home. Hmm.. I think I'm taking a big suitcase on wheels for clothes/toiletries etc., and another (smaller) suitcase for books and stationary. :eek:
Reply 4
sophieliz
How are people planning on taking their equipment to university? I think I will take a trunk, and then some cardboard boxes as I don't want to be stuck with excess bags in my probably miniscule bedroom. What do people think?

noone brings trunks, boxes/bags are the norm
Reply 5
Trunks do store a lot, but remember that it will have to stay in your room all year, as most Uni's don't have luggage storage facilities ... Will there be room for it?

I take my clothes in one large and one small suitcase, which then go under my bed, and the rest of my stuff I pack in the collapsible cardboard 'archive' boxes that you can get from office supplies shops - they have lids, are just the right size to carry and fold down to nothing, which means that I can store them under my bed or on top of my wardrobe.
Reply 6
Im taking one medium suitcase (with wheels) for my clothes, two large holdalls - for shoes, coats, hats, toiletries, and a couple of collapsable boxes for books/stationary/dvds..plus my computer....

the boxes are really good. you can get 5 for £8.35 in Argos...a good size that collapses flat.
Reply 7
I took a suitcase, and about 4 or 5 boxes. Everything that wouldn't fit in those got stuck in random plastic bags.
I should have taken up my provisional driving license when I was 18 then hire a van to take the stuff over instead of getting a lift with a relation. Luckily I'm going to London and not the north of England.
Reply 9
My trunk is lovely though-black and antique so I don't mind at all having it in my room or keeping stuff stored in there. (or hiding dirty washing in it!)
Reply 10
OMG try to just take stuff in bags- wen we moved my sister in for the first time a few years back we packed everythin in boxes and suitcases and it woz so hard- so the next year we just packed her stuff into heavy duty bags, which were fantastic- trust me :rolleyes:

xxx
Reply 11
I take some of my clothes in a large-ish rucksack which is useful for taking washing home if I go home for a weekend, or if I'm away for a couple of days. The rest goes in plastic bags as it is much less hassle than carting suitcases up and down stairs. Computer and other stuff goes in boxes.
Reply 12
BexTait
I take some of my clothes in a large-ish rucksack which is useful for taking washing home if I go home for a weekend, or if I'm away for a couple of days. The rest goes in plastic bags as it is much less hassle than carting suitcases up and down stairs. Computer and other stuff goes in boxes.

Well I won't be going home very often as I'm going to uni quite a long way away so I don't think I'll bother with a rucksack-no I'll just be the odd, eccentric one who takes a trunk. (Nothing changes) If other people come from boarding school they might take their trunks anyway.
Reply 13
Gosh last year i had about 4 suitcases with my clothes and shoes alone! Then another for all the toiletries, afew bags with photos n stuff to put in my room etc, anothere with stationary, then more with random stuff.. This year im hopefully not going to have as much, as im in my 2nd year and living in a house, we moved like my tv and cdplayer etc up there already!
But im rubbish at packing, i pack evrrrrything!
Reply 14
I think i'll take at least one suitcase of clothes. It's massive & doesn't take all my holiday clothes when i go away! So i reckon i'll need at least 2 more holdalls. With other stuff like my TV etc on the back seat. I reckon i'll take lots of medium-large size bags full of tolietries, shoes, towels, sheets etc.

There's so much to sort out it's untrue!
Reply 15
Remember to take a small suitcase/weekend bag for trips home or to visit friends at other Unis. You won't want to lug a huge trunk back with you.

I took cardboard boxes which I collapsed and stored uder my bed and on top of the wardrobe, a large suitcase for clothes and a smaller suitcase with other stuff in.
i've bought those massive old lady tartan plastic shopping bags for all my clothes and have bought a plastic underbed storage bag for towels, bed linen etc. Also a load of folding crates and some cardboard boxes. i couldn't bear being lumbered with suitcases and things like that. everything will just fold up to nothing. and leave me some space. :p: