Cheetah7

Ive got my collection of cat ornaments and some of them are wood. How can you tell if wood is treated, because I would like to ship these ornaments as Ive collected them from various countries?

Actually, I was looking at our bed last night which is gorgeous and its the only large item we would like to bring. Shame that wont go in the boxes for the excess luggage company.

BrisbaneBound2008

Great thread!

We've got a didgeridoo we got in Oz years ago - lovely wood, looks like a tree stump, will they have a probelm with that?????? Hopefully I can find the paperwork we got with it.

I'm gunna visit costco and stock up on 'lady' items (sorry guys) - not the same over there - can't believe 'Always' aren't in Oz! Surely that won't coun't as new purchase will it???

Marmite - haven't seen it in Oz - I had to take some for my friend in NZ when we visited in May

obogk

was a good opportunity for a clear out and declutter but we brought everything - absolutely everything we were fortunate as Allied came and packed everything as it was.I woul dsay if you can bring it all as even when you do get here there are enough expenses and if thinsg need replcing you can always do that once things settle down. Believe me it helps having your things even the good old stuff - helps with the settling in. Lats thing you want is running round and getting stuff here. You'll get hardly anything for it in the UK ! Waste of money. Good Luck - any electricals bring them we were not sure and remember posting lots of questions and still not knowing what to do and we brough it all and have the adpators on them and all the other brits here do the same....even the fridge- we had an electrician check and he said it was fine. Buy them before coming out
Stuff is expensive and not many bargains here - bring it honestly. We had to shop for a couple of things a heater ( so cold in the houses) new TV and a computer as ours was on the way out in th UK and that was a big enough pain believe me

oliverandlisa

Yep kitchen knives fine!

sammyg

if you choose a immigrant flight with 40kgs you can squeeze light things into that

so...do we have to treat our wood carving from Bali in order to take it with us?

Sam x

soulrebel

yeah I have a few wood carvings from around the world aswell (along with my senegalese drums), if we treat them can we bring them?? Where can one find this information.

ray2gill

Do anyone know about taking daggers in. We have inherited my FIL's German dagger/bayonet from WWII from when he was in a prison of war camp which he had as soveniers?

northernbird

There are people on here that have had daggers confiscated but got swords through, I think it depends if you get a jobsworth on the day your stuff comes through.

killamarsh

Iv'e also noticed that kitchen knives (decent set) are expensive - is this right. How are you to prove when bought something? If I bought kids clothes (a size bigger than he is at the moment) would I have to produce a receipt? I can't really drag the clothes through the backyard to roughen them up. And how do you 'age' duvets (doona)? I was going to buy stuff in the January sales and put it all away ie saucepans, kitchen stuff (mine are on their last legs) a good knife set, good cutlery and feather doonas (duvets) - is it worth doing it?

sammyg

I don't think you have to 'prove' items are over 12 months old - it is more a case of can they prove it is less - if you see what i mean.

Obviously if you take items out of boxes/make them look used etc can't see you having any probs

BallochBiddy

Great thread

Thanks to everyone passing on these great tips.

And please keep them coming

alipally

It's really opened my eyes as to what we should be buying in advance and what we shouldn't bother packing up!

Ceremonial knives/Daggers Obvious weapons are a NO GO

Untreated 'raw' wood is NO GO
(On this note, does anyone know how to get around this/treat it yourself?)

Brand new items should be used a bit!

Unpack new bedding and towels

You can bring in prepacked food items (not fresh) as long as you declare it

And finally... If you use it in the UK, you'll use it in Aus, chucking it and buying new stuff will almost certainly end up costing more than shipping it accross!

So glad I put this thread up!

soulrebel

Yeah, does anyone know?

Yep, very good thread.

dandn

Thanks for the thread Alipally!!!
very usefull

renagade96

i brought everything and i'm glad i did. i brought 4 tv's and they didnt work here in australia, so dont bring them. i have replaced most of my stuff now but it helps when you first get here. you have so much else to organise ,without looking for furniture.