You'll know what they forgot. Before the car is packed.
DormHQ turns one enormous move into a shared list with a budget, deadlines and names attached to things.
Your mom can help without taking over.
One list you both work from. You keep control of your room; she keeps control of the spreadsheet energy.
Which school?
What kind of room?
What's already in the closet?
Anything you tick drops off the shopping list and stays on the packing list.
Every item goes from "we need that" to "it's in the room."
Five stages, tracked for every single thing on the list. That's the whole product.
The list starts from your room, not a generic checklist.
We already know the bed size, what's provided and what's banned at 2,400+ schools. You answer the handful of questions that actually change the list. Try one. The list beside it is live.
Skip a question and we use the most common setup at your school. You can sharpen it later.
One list. Everyone on it. Nobody texting "did we buy towels?"
Parents see the budget and the deadlines. Students see their room and their bins. Same list, updated live.
Move-in day gets a countdown instead of a panic.
Arrival window, parking slot, elevator time, who carries what. When everything's packed, DormHQ says so, and prints the tag that goes on the bin.
When to do what.
May – June · build the list
Housing lands. Answer the questions, see the list, buy nothing yet.
July · split it with the roommate
One fridge, one rug, one TV. Not two of each.
3–4 weeks out · buy and pack
Move-in lands in August or September depending on the school. Shop what's missing, label the bins as they fill.
Move-in week · move-in mode
Countdown, arrival window, parking, and one trip up the stairs.
Asked by both of you.
Do I need an account to see my list?
No. Answer the questions and the list appears. You make an account when you want to save it, share it or come back to it.
Is it actually free?
Yes. A genuinely useful version, not a trial. DormHQ+ adds the budget, packing mode and the move-in countdown for $19.99 a year.
What if we don't have the housing assignment yet?
Start anyway. We use the most common setup at your school, and every answer can be sharpened once the assignment lands.
Who should set it up, the parent or the student?
Whoever's more anxious. The other one gets invited and sees the same list.
Start at "need." We'll take it from there.
Two minutes now saves the four separate store runs later.
