TraceyW

I've just heard from a friend of mine who has been in contact with her friend who landed in Perth a few weeks ago.

All her containers were delayed at customs as she had packed her Christmas decs and included amongst them were a couple of fir cone decorations.

Customs destroyed them and charged her $75 for the privilage!

I know all about pine funiture/bamboo/plants animal skins etc etc etc....but would have completely forgotten about my lovely chrissy decs! I am now off to the loft to get them out again and sort out the offending ones before I forget!

WBB

$75 what did they do, give them they're own cremation complete with service ?

:scared:

TraceyW

lol ... yes and a lovely send off it was too!!!!

Go Banana's !!

Thanks so much for the info, was just about to put all ours in the loft. So I now need to go through the boxes to find all the lovely pine cones I bought in John Lewis this year to make the arificial tree in Oz look real.

Thinking / hoping ??? to be in Perth this year we carefully acked all the decs in bubble wrap, some of them were my Grandmas - not sure whether to take them now incase they get mashed !!!

Thanks

Jill

chippy

This has got me thinking.

We are taking virtually bugger all with us to Oz, but one of the things we were planning on taking was some pine furniture. Is this a no no??

Go Banana's !!

Not sure whether all you would need to do is have it fumigated.
My advice is though, take as much as you possibly can. I've read that so much on here, because what you would sell it for here, would not cover the replacement in Oz. You never know when you will be glad of the Noddy bean bag cushion when you want to watch tv, or place it on top of a spider and jump up and down.

Seriously, if you are going to get a container to ship the pine stuff you may aswell fill it to the brim, cos it will cost the same.

Hope this helps

Jill

Go Banana's !!

PS - with a name like Chippy can't you make your own ???
Just a thought

Jill

teach

Hi All,

I heard about this a while back so as soon as my decs came down I gave them all away except and angel that my nan gave me. It is about 25 years old. Mum said that she will look after this for me an pop it in her suitcase on 1st visit.

Regards
Sarah

chippy

Hey thanks Jill...Why did'nt I think of that!

But seriously, I did make some of what I am proposing to take.

chippy

I think you can send items without having to pay for a whole/half container, surely?

WBB

yes chipmeister you can, get them in to do a quote for the stuff you wanna take, they will supply boxes etc for the smaller items.

scrawni

I don't know whether to leave my artificial tree and decorations behind and get new when we get out there.

By the way, can you get real xmas trees in oz?

Mandy

Go Banana's !!

I have recently heard that you can take bikes out in a small container with your general luggage when you go straight away. Husband said it cost £300 and you can put other essentials in aswell. He thought this was a 'smashing' idea 'cos of the six weeks it would take to get all your stuff over.
However I may be wrong but in terms of anything larger it is either a 20 or a 40 cubic metres container starting at aroung £1,600 I think???

Jill

Go Banana's !!

Sorry I'm a bit slow, thought your name may be derived from the local fried potato establishment.

Didn't know you were a real carpenter, you shouldn't have any probs getting work. Wish hubby was as handy dreading the Oz version of B&Q - not Hubs thing

Jill

WBB