Top luggage storage tips for when your child is moving to a university.

Moving to university is an exciting time in the lives of our children but as a parent, you are anxious about your child moving away from home. As a parent, you worry about how they will adjust in their new surroundings and more so, how you will adjust without them.

We understand how packing for your child who’s moving out can be overwhelming so here are a few tips that can help you prepare around this time of the year.

1.       Getting organized

Being organized is a superpower and we often underestimate how it can save us in times of adversity. Moving back and forth between locations can lead to a whole lot of clutter and lack of organization. To start off you need a list of things that your child will need to take with them to university. The next step is to label everything. An entire cardboard box dedicated to socks should be labelled ‘socks’ so that you don’t go looking for socks anywhere else. This way your packing is done sooner, and you will have time to create a checklist. Use packing checklists that are easily available online or create your own with the help of someone who has probably done this for their kids before. This will ensure that your child doesn’t call you on the first day of school because you forgot to pack them a hairdryer. 

2.       Pack light

One of the benefits of making an initial list of things required is that you would pack consciously and avoid taking things with you that are not likely to be used that often.  Your child may insist on packing their entire room and taking it with them. But as a parent, you must convince them otherwise because it will not only make luggage storage a tricky business. Transporting all their belongings will only be that much more time consuming and costly. As mentioned in our article (attach article) it is much easier to use cardboard boxes for packing.

3. Declutter, Discard and Donate

The upside of having the house all to yourself is that you can now sort through everything and declutter as you have been meaning to for years. We all have clutter in our houses, maybe in the form of items that have sentimental value, clothing items that do not fit us anymore or were gifted to us that we cling to. Some of the clutter is damaged items that you were meaning to discard but never got around to. Clutter can be in the form of expensive items, and you feel guilty about purchasing them but never really getting the use out of them. It is time to donate as someone else might actually need, that 25^th black t-shirt you own.  With the kids gone, this is your green signal to apply the golden rule: if you haven’t used it in the past year, toss it.

4. Self-storage.

Not everything can be donated, discarded and some items you might need, just not on a day-to-day basis. Items that have sentimental value may be challenging, as you cannot keep them due to limited storage space and you are not willing to give them away. Well, we know exactly what to do with such items. The vintage coats that your grandma left which you cannot wear and cannot discard are exactly the kind of items that need a self-storage unit. Super storage is for the safe-keeping of your belongings that would rather just be taking up space at home and gathering dust. This way you can enjoy more space at home for the things that you do use often.

As a parent sending off their child to university, smallstorage units can be especially useful to you because you can avoid a frustrating amount of travelling back and forth with seasonal items. Help your child find a self-storage facility in the close vicinity of their university where you can store the off-season clothing and other belongings that may be difficult to travel with.