T ypically when I'm packing for college, I take everything I own, stuff it in IKEA bags, and shove it into my car to make the ...

The start of college is always a learning curve. You find yourself in a new place where you have to learn to live on your own, make new friends and navigate campus life. Going to classes and packing ...

Pickup trucks with trailers and cars with yawning trunks pulled up onto untended lawns in front of buildings from which people lugged books, furniture, mattresses, trophy cases and artwork.

"All the things that are mementos of the best four years of a lot of people's lives are sold to the highest bidders" when a college closes, said Doug Moore, founding partner of a firm that has ...