When I was accepted for grad school, we were pretty lucky to find an apartment that a young woman was giving up (I think she’d done a semester and became a “Christmas grad”) so when I started my program in January, we were not only able to assume her lease but buy out a lot of her furniture and household items as well.
That saved us furnishing an apartment then we turned around at the end of my program and sold/gave away a lot of the stuff in the apartment.
If memory serves, that meant we managed to move home with only a few suitcases, a hockey bag and a total of about *ten* U-Haul boxes.
