What do you wish you'd brought along?
Jul 31st 2009, 6:18 am
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What do you wish you'd brought along?
Over the next two weeks I have four shipping quote surveys lined up. While my Oz resident sister in laws were here recently they saw us preparing to give away things like plant pots and they urged us to put them in our container and take them along because good plant pots in Oz are hard to find. This has started me thinking... What other things are there which we should include in our container? What do you wish that you'd included?
Thanks.
Thanks.
Jul 31st 2009, 6:29 am
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Re: What do you wish you'd brought along?
- Parents, family & friends
- Some culture
- Some history
- Some worthwhile architecture
- Green rolling hills
- Country pubs
- Decent TV
Heheh as you can tell I'm a touch homesick at the moment.
Jul 31st 2009, 6:37 am
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Re: What do you wish you'd brought along?
Might sound daft but wall paper.The one Im looking is $149 dollars a roll.
Thankfully I only need three.Its 30 pound a roll in uk.
We also gave away a garden trough and my husband still misses it.If there is room bring it.You can give it away at the last minute if it doesnt fit.
Thankfully I only need three.Its 30 pound a roll in uk.We also gave away a garden trough and my husband still misses it.If there is room bring it.You can give it away at the last minute if it doesnt fit.
Jul 31st 2009, 6:45 am
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Re: What do you wish you'd brought along?
Over the next two weeks I have four shipping quote surveys lined up. While my Oz resident sister in laws were here recently they saw us preparing to give away things like plant pots and they urged us to put them in our container and take them along because good plant pots in Oz are hard to find. This has started me thinking... What other things are there which we should include in our container? What do you wish that you'd included?
Thanks.
Thanks.
Good Luck with the move, packing etc.....It's stressful deciding what to bring/what to leave......We didn't have a container, just came over with a dozen 'tea chests'.....so ended up leaving A LOT of stuff in UK....good excuse to go shopping over here tho
Jul 31st 2009, 6:50 am
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Re: What do you wish you'd brought along?
- all my tools
- my motorbike gear
- my motorbike
Bloody pain having to buy them all again
Jul 31st 2009, 6:56 am
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Re: What do you wish you'd brought along?
Don't chuck out your old paperbacks/books you can sell/exchange them over here.
If you have any over the counter medicines you rely on, check if they sell them in Oz and if not, pack a box in the container full of them! It may take a while to find a substitute medicine if your 'normal' one isn't available and being ill in a new country is difficult enough without trawling around various pharmacies looking for the right thing.
For example, for kids, they don't sell Calpol tablets over here, or even anything similar. We also brought some of our preferred travel sickness pills, antiseptic cream etc. We had no problems importing them - we did make sure we declared them though.
Women should bring a few months supply of make up/ toiletries /sanitary stuff for the same reasons. You have so much to do that trawling the shops trying new brands is something which you can delay for a while.
Lots of UK trailing sockets. When you get here, just change the plug to an aussie one and you have a multi-adaptor!
If you have any over the counter medicines you rely on, check if they sell them in Oz and if not, pack a box in the container full of them! It may take a while to find a substitute medicine if your 'normal' one isn't available and being ill in a new country is difficult enough without trawling around various pharmacies looking for the right thing.
For example, for kids, they don't sell Calpol tablets over here, or even anything similar. We also brought some of our preferred travel sickness pills, antiseptic cream etc. We had no problems importing them - we did make sure we declared them though.
Women should bring a few months supply of make up/ toiletries /sanitary stuff for the same reasons. You have so much to do that trawling the shops trying new brands is something which you can delay for a while.
Lots of UK trailing sockets. When you get here, just change the plug to an aussie one and you have a multi-adaptor!
Jul 31st 2009, 7:00 am
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Re: What do you wish you'd brought along?
Might sound daft but wall paper.The one Im looking is $149 dollars a roll.Thankfully I only need three.Its 30 pound a roll in uk.
We also gave away a garden trough and my husband still misses it.If there is room bring it.You can give it away at the last minute if it doesnt fit.
Thankfully I only need three.Its 30 pound a roll in uk.We also gave away a garden trough and my husband still misses it.If there is room bring it.You can give it away at the last minute if it doesnt fit.
Don't chuck out your old paperbacks/books you can sell/exchange them over here.
If you have any over the counter medicines you rely on, check if they sell them in Oz and if not, pack a box in the container full of them! It may take a while to find a substitute medicine if your 'normal' one isn't available and being ill in a new country is difficult enough without trawling around various pharmacies looking for the right thing.
For example, for kids, they don't sell Calpol tablets over here, or even anything similar. We also brought some of our preferred travel sickness pills, antiseptic cream etc. We had no problems importing them - we did make sure we declared them though.
Women should bring a few months supply of make up/ toiletries /sanitary stuff for the same reasons. You have so much to do that trawling the shops trying new brands is something which you can delay for a while.
Lots of UK trailing sockets. When you get here, just change the plug to an aussie one and you have a multi-adaptor!
If you have any over the counter medicines you rely on, check if they sell them in Oz and if not, pack a box in the container full of them! It may take a while to find a substitute medicine if your 'normal' one isn't available and being ill in a new country is difficult enough without trawling around various pharmacies looking for the right thing.
For example, for kids, they don't sell Calpol tablets over here, or even anything similar. We also brought some of our preferred travel sickness pills, antiseptic cream etc. We had no problems importing them - we did make sure we declared them though.
Women should bring a few months supply of make up/ toiletries /sanitary stuff for the same reasons. You have so much to do that trawling the shops trying new brands is something which you can delay for a while.
Lots of UK trailing sockets. When you get here, just change the plug to an aussie one and you have a multi-adaptor!
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We're planning to bring our current (but few years old) TV, I know that the analogue signal will be switched off in the next year or so but thought it would be good for now and can be used as a second TV or even for the kids to play their playstation on etc, later on. Did anyone find that new TVs in Australia are any more expensive than the UK?
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Jul 31st 2009, 7:28 am
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Re: What do you wish you'd brought along?
Three things spring to mind:
All my beloved books - they're horrendously expensive here and even here in Sydney there's not a great choice
Clothes Hangers - has anyone ever found a decent trousers/skirts hanger that doesn't limply release your clothes as soon as you hang them up?
Warm winter clothes - ended up spending a fortune this winter buying up poor replacements for the lovely cardis/jumpers/coats I left at home.
Pretty happy to be here all the same!
All my beloved books - they're horrendously expensive here and even here in Sydney there's not a great choice
Clothes Hangers - has anyone ever found a decent trousers/skirts hanger that doesn't limply release your clothes as soon as you hang them up?
Warm winter clothes - ended up spending a fortune this winter buying up poor replacements for the lovely cardis/jumpers/coats I left at home.
Pretty happy to be here all the same!
Jul 31st 2009, 7:37 am
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Re: What do you wish you'd brought along?
Three things spring to mind:
All my beloved books - they're horrendously expensive here and even here in Sydney there's not a great choice
Clothes Hangers - has anyone ever found a decent trousers/skirts hanger that doesn't limply release your clothes as soon as you hang them up?
Warm winter clothes - ended up spending a fortune this winter buying up poor replacements for the lovely cardis/jumpers/coats I left at home.
Pretty happy to be here all the same!
All my beloved books - they're horrendously expensive here and even here in Sydney there's not a great choice
Clothes Hangers - has anyone ever found a decent trousers/skirts hanger that doesn't limply release your clothes as soon as you hang them up?
Warm winter clothes - ended up spending a fortune this winter buying up poor replacements for the lovely cardis/jumpers/coats I left at home.
Pretty happy to be here all the same!
Jul 31st 2009, 8:18 am
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Re: What do you wish you'd brought along?
Wish we'd bought our concrete mixer over. Had to buy one and could have fitted it in as well. Could have fitted in best mate as well but the selfish cow wouldn't leave her family.
Jul 31st 2009, 8:20 am
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Re: What do you wish you'd brought along?
Agree as well. Just to clarfiy, Australian beds are pretty mcu the same size as UK beds - they are just called different things but the dimensions are virtually the same. But if you compare aqueen with a queen they wiull be different. Then work out a queen in Aus is a king in UK and you'll be fine...
Jul 31st 2009, 8:38 am
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Re: What do you wish you'd brought along?
Over the next two weeks I have four shipping quote surveys lined up. While my Oz resident sister in laws were here recently they saw us preparing to give away things like plant pots and they urged us to put them in our container and take them along because good plant pots in Oz are hard to find. This has started me thinking... What other things are there which we should include in our container? What do you wish that you'd included?
Thanks.
Thanks.
