How much help are you giving ds/dd on moving in day?

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Dd moves into halls as a fresher tomorrow.

Me, dh and dd2 are taking her there, with a car stuffed full.

We'll of course help carry all the crap she's decided to take with her her belongings into her room, and dh will set up a mini-wifi network for her.

We can help her unpack a bit and make up her bed if she wants us to.

I reckon that will all take 2-3 hours.

My idea was then to disappear into the city centre with dh and dd2, leaving dd1 to get to know her new flatmates.

Does that sound about right/what other parents will do? I think I'll have to wrestle dh away with a crowbar though... he's very emotional already and will probably be a gibbering wreck by the time we get in the car to come home.

I'm trying to think back to what my parents did 30 years ago when I went to uni... I certainly didn't take as much stuff because the kitchen was fully equipped. I remember my mum (who was a teenager when I was born, so only in her early 30s) ogling a fit looking male student, helping me carry stuff up 4 flights of stairs and then leaving me to disappear to the students' union with my flatmates.

Well I'm back after my marathon round trip! and she was pleased with the cakes I took her, went out for lunch, did a quick shop in the local spar then drove home trying not to cry :(

lovemydog between them my DC have so many losses/ idiocies/ dramas that I'm an old hand at finding easy, labour saving but adequate solutions.

Still, I'm in awe :)

DD1 specialises in the leaving something vital behind. I have the option of using the network of students from her university who live in a 10 mile radius. DD1 arranges on facebook that I will drop off the forgotten item if they are returning on a later day or I send it special delivery and have a chat with the woman in the post office who now recognises me

This thread made me smile - I left at 16 to go to residential agric college to do a National Diploma. Not to mention all my stuff, I took my horse as well! Took ages moving in the first time, after that Dad used to dump me, horse and suitcase and wave bye!

I was put on a train in Wales with my sister. On arrival in London she took another train to start her first job, I loaded my trunk into a taxi.

I was then stranded by the taxi driver in the middle of a busy London street as he said he couldn't get into the square where my Halls were and had a bad back so couldn't help me with the trunk. He drove off, I was left on the central reservation bit with traffic swirling round. No mobile phones, this was 30 years ago.

Eventually someone took pity on me and helped me with my trunk. Once in halls everyone else had parents with them and I was pretty much left to myself as those without parents were assumed to have arrived earlier and be fully settled in.

Will be different with my DDs.