That is an excellent idea. My friends gave me an MP3 player for my birthday, and that and my laptop are going to get most of my music. The actual CDs and cases, liner notes, etc. will go into storage with the stuff that's not going over until I decide to make the move permanent.
My £.02 - I'd say that for me the better modus operandi was definitely to leave absolutely everything that was not strictly necessary behind. Shipping is SOOOOOOO expensive -- I got one wee cardboard box (you know, normal cardboard-box-size) in the post from my mother, and it cost her $200 to ship is via boat, took it 3 months to get here. I arrived in this country with two suitcases and that was my life; I haven't really shopped or anything since I've been over here, but I haven't got the faintest idea of how I'm going to get home. Also, take into consideration that I went back to the states for a week last year, taking home a full suitcase (my duvet, all books not directly related to my course, formalwear (leaving one dress here), a couple of jackets (one will do!), all clothes that I didn't absolutely love and wear all the time) and bringing back an empty one. The one "waste of space" I've continued to allow myself is my photo album -- wouldn't ask anyone to do without that. But seriously, less is more. In airports, in dorms,
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I have unfond memories from my student-in-London days of taking a large box (large enough I had to take a taximeter cab) down to the PO that had everything I wanted to send back to the States. And having the Royal Mail people tell me it was too large. And, no, they would not put it in the back while I went to find smaller boxes to repack it in. So it sat in a corner fo a busy PO in west-central London until I could find smaller boxes, come back, and repack it there in the lobby. *sigh*
I haven't really shopped or anything since I've been over here
I seem to recall reading a few entries about trisp to Inverness that involved the acquisition of a fair amount of (very attractive- and tasteful-sounding) clothing... ;-)
*ahem* yes, well ... three skirts and a scarf does not a suitcase fill! And I left more than enough to cover that while I was home for christmas (though that was another plan of "I'm going to take home a full suitcase of things I don't need" -- fair enough -- but in this case the whole "I'm going to bring back an empty suitcase" didn't quite work out as intended. But still. Living on Skye, you can't be much of a big spender -- Bùth Billy Currie in Adrvasar doesn't sell much aside from week-old bread!
i leave for school in four months and haven't even started to think about what i need to bring. i still need to unpack from moving back home after college graduation. but after spending a summer in london i definitely have to agree that it's bad to overpack. i would check to see if your university offers to provide you with bed linens because that will help to clear some space. and also don't worry about the small things. pens, paper, pots, plates, etc. can be purchased when you are overseas at a supermarket or drug store. i would make sure to bring any medications with extra refills if possible because it could be hard to get that overseas. best of luck packing!! and i will definitely be taking your list and adding to it for my own packing.
Don't be silly. Living like a student in the UK is not as expensive as you'd think. Don't bother clogging up your limited luggage space with essentials. Shops like Tesco and Primark (they have them everywhere) and the 99p shops (simmiliar to the 99cent shops here) have mostly everything you need for about the same price you'd pay in America. Also, beds in UK student residences come with comfortors (called duvets) and sheets/pillows, so don't bother bringing your own unless it's for sentimental reasons
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That is an excellent idea. My friends gave me an MP3 player for my birthday, and that and my laptop are going to get most of my music. The actual CDs and cases, liner notes, etc. will go into storage with the stuff that's not going over until I decide to make the move permanent.
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I seem to recall reading a few entries about trisp to Inverness that involved the acquisition of a fair amount of (very attractive- and tasteful-sounding) clothing... ;-)
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