Aw, man, these guys are so bad at being poor.
You live in a college town, move-out days for student housing are Dumpster Christmas. Shipping back home is right out of the question, so if you cruise around the dorms and the university district you can score appliances and furniture and housewares that rich and/or international students would rather chuck than bother selling.
Clean them and sell them yourself, or take only what you need, or build a throne of functional microwaves to brood on like Conan the Barbarian. Seriously. The only downside I could see would be the possibility of bedbugs with soft goods, but you could just not pick up couches or you could chuck them in your back yard until you can inspect them in the morning.