• shneancy@lemmy.world
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      or the opposite - kids who can’t transfer all of their things at once for a reasonable amount of money

      when i studied at a UK uni i couldn’t really afford shipping all my pots, pans, sheets, and books back and forth from Poland every year

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        Must be nice to have owned things. At that age I moved house with a backpack and a bin bag. The fun of apprenticeship wages.

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      I ain’t dragging 2 carloads of pots, pans, desks, and clothes back home for 3 months when I know I’ll be living in probably the same dorm again very soon. A waste of gas, time, and money.

      When I was in college I just stayed in the same dorm and worked. If I had to remove shit I’d have done similar to OP, minus the cool case

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      It can cost more to bring stuff home and back tbh depending on your method of travel, you can’t leave your stuff at university, and a lot of people live in on-campus housing which shuts down all summer.

      It can be way cheaper to find cheap storage facilities (or a local friend and pay them). It’s not just for lazy rich kids.