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Uni accommodations lack of storage

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MickleMee · 02/09/2023 18:26

I have 3 DC starting uni this year, DS who took a gap year, DD and DSS. All different unis, all in uni provided accomodation.

DD seems to have got lucky as her room has lots of storage (wardrobe, with 2 drawers, desk with 6 drawers (3 wide enough to be a chest of drawers basically), small double ottoman bed, cupboard in bathroom, plenty of hooks and bookshelf surrounding the desk with 8 shelfs all in) and all the rooms in her accomodation have all of this.

DSS is liveable especially as he doesn't have much, but it's a struggle (single bed, wardrobe, half shelved, Desk with shelves and 3 drawers. Some rooms seem to also have more drawers but we aren't counting on it.

DS has a single bed, desk, two drawers, 3 shelves and a small wardrobe.
He plays sports and has a lot of kit so no idea how it will all fit.

AIBU thinking it's crazy how little storage some of the accommodations have? Anyone know why this is? Have DS and DSS just got unlucky and DD is the norm or other way around? Driving me mad!!

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 02/09/2023 18:28

It might be worth checking the bed base - I think that, when we moved ds2 into his accommodation, you could lift up the bed base and there was storage space underneath.

Or could he store sports equipment safely at the sports centre, if there is one?

DelphiniumBlue · 02/09/2023 18:32

Yeah, DS had a small table desk, a single bed, and a wardrobe with a couple of small shelves. We bought a shelf unit and a small bedside table drawer unit and a sort of desk extension. He was in halls with shared bathrooms, but a sink in his room, but there wasn't anywhere to put things like toothpaste!
Another DS was in halls with an ensuite shower, teeny tiny, with no hooks, shelves, towel rails or anything.

NotFastButFurious · 02/09/2023 18:37

We had big built in wardrobes at uni and half was shelved but big deep ones so we used to put baskets in them with things like sports kit and underwear as the only drawers we had were a set of bedside ones. We also had space under the bed.

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