Hi, We are moving to Western australia in September and would like some advice about wether to take our stuff with us. We don't have enough to warrant a 20' container or have much furniture we would want to keep but we have lots of books, a 1967 vespa , My tools,personal effects ,kids computors and musical instuments amoungst other things we could keep.

What do you think? Should we have a whole new fresh start? We just can't decide!

And you want total strangers to make that decision for you.. Flip a coin

I don't want strangers to make the decision for me, just what they would do having the benefit of their own experience! why are you on here ?

if you can afford it and they are worth anything take it. you wont get what its worth if you sell it . if you have to buy new its a big expense . furniture can be quite expensive out here. books are very expensive .

We are taking what we thought was very basic,absolutely no bedroom furniture, very few electricals and the kids toys and when we had to do the inventory for the insurance we made it a very realistic value not the actual new value and it came to £10,180. what i would suggest is that you go through the inportant things you would like to keep and if it is worth double what the shipping cost will be then i would say deffinately take them or you may get a shock when you have to replace them over there

just my 2p worth

BTW we only had 415 cubic feet, almost half a container and as i said the rough value £10,180. How much would it be to replace your kids PC`s and musical instruments? prob most important is things of sentimental value.

We used Excess baggage/International and had a quote of £2195 for 500cubic feet which will be reduced to prob under £2k as we only had 415 cubic feet
http://www.excess-baggage.com/

having lost all our belongings in a shipping disaster once

make sure you insure for replacement value,

loss adjusters will halve the value you give anyway,

all ours was brand new and unused, it was the little things like underwear and CDs that cost the most to replace !!!

Sorry if I got you in a hump

Its simple maths
Option A
Sell everything (£ A) and replace (£B) B – A =Y

Option B
Container 20ft £3500 to £4000 = (£X)

Day 28 --- £X or £Y
YOU DISIDE
Do a searches on this site regarding your dilemma and most posts will tell you to take everything.. And more beside

I'm sure they'll welcome your friendly advice

We have just joined and were about to ask a similar question.

Think we might ask elsewhere

No don't we're not all like that most of us don't bite honest

yep , not all like that

definitely not all like that

Thanks folks, you made me

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! there are a few, but mainly we're all lovely

We will be back!!!! Thanks again

Ain't done this before,it's like first time on holiday in US..couldn't find the petrol cap or the lights and I've been driving for 20 year..doh!