have got a good idea now on what is to go in our container, but what about the suitcases
when the container disappears into the sunset from sunny cov....we will be left with 4 suitcases( one for each of us ), i have already told the other half that we will fill a large holdall with kids school uniform and bumming around clothes that we can chuck out before we head off to aus.....there will be a gap of about 6-8 weeks after being made homeless and heading off to aus
so other than clothes what else do we need to think of packing in our suitcases to get us through 6-8 weeks here and a short time in aus (at least when we get to aus we can hit the shops )

thats a hard one

you staying with someone or got a house lined up ?

i would just say like you would for a holl as all your stuff will be in container

think of what you will realy need any thing you forget is easy to buy here

If I knew then what I know now then I would have packed my suitcase with more Marmite!

In the 9 weeks we've been here I've lived in shorts, t'shirts and flips flops. Winter is on it's way though so the jumpers and jackets we've brought will finally come in useful.

Bit of helpful advice, get some clothing vacumn bags to pack your clothes into your suitcases. It'll save an absolute bundle of space and a tiny but of weight.

Have you already validated you visa? If not you get double baggage allowance.

Leaving big bad Cov hey! Don't blame ya!

Kids' school reports or they may well be put in the dunce class! Also, schools like to see immunisation records. You may need original documentation like birth/ wedding certificates, qualifications, driving licences, if you are planning on opening bank accounts, getting cars and looking for work etc before your container arrives.

i gota love your case can i have a go in there lol
so funny did you real pack that stuff if so what custems say when landed hehehe

oh dont bring more then 200 smokes with you i got hit 300 bucks fine for haveing 5 cartons lol

[QUOTE=dave7370;6146507]If I knew then what I know now then I would have packed my suitcase with more Marmite!

In the 9 weeks we've been here I've lived in shorts, t'shirts and flips flops. Winter is on it's way though so the jumpers and jackets we've brought will finally come in useful.

Bit of helpful advice, get some clothing vacumn bags to pack your clothes into your suitcases. It'll save an absolute bundle of space and a tiny but of weight.

Have you already validated you visa? If not you get double baggage allowance.

Leaving big bad Cov hey! Don't blame ya![)

yeh, we had to validate our visa, due to not having sold the house in time, went over in feb to validate.we are looking at coming over to melly in june, so we know we will need a few woolies...but what about all documents/qualifications will these be best in hand luggage

after last nights footie result..cov will be joining us down under soon

hi back in the uk we are hopefully going to be renting a house or apartment for the few weeks we have left here....with a uk holiday somewhere in between finishing work and leaving the uk......over in aus until we find somewhere to rent hopefully we will stay where we did for our reccie

did i see right mell as in melbourne ?

a good rental site http://www.realestate.com.au/

has all over austrlia on there

We're also planning on having just 4 suitcases and 4 handluggage bags & a buggy when we go (there's 4 of us). As we've already validated our visa's we wont be able to get double luggage allowance. I'm planning on taking the same volume of clothes i would for a week's holiday each...albeit a mixture of summer/winter clothes. I'm also planning on taking some personal documentation/some DVD's relating to home video's of our kids, my best bits of jewellry, some small kids toys, something familiar to the kids from their rooms at home, discs of saved photo's, and a couple of very small sentimental things/ornaments... The latter things being incase something happens to our container! Things like toiletries etc i'll keep to the bare minimum and buy as soon as we get out there....

are you aloud to take food iteams ie,tea bags in your case?thought you couldn't take any food items to oz,or is it me being silly

if you do declare it better been safer then sorry you get fined if they find and you not said you had them dogs never miss a trick

Food I can live without but in ours there will definitely be our full duty free booze allowance. (It's dirt cheap at Changi.) We took some on our looksee last week and left it with friends, and my husband will be doing likewise when he goes there on business in a fortnight.

I have my priorities sorted.

Seriously, no great stress at this end because we'll be going a day after we pack up but I will pack:

a variety of clothes for all temperatures (although I own hardly any warm ones), my huge array of meds, enough toiletries to keep us going a week or so, vital documents - in hand luggage - and probably a few basic cooking utensils 'cos we're going straight into our unfurnished rental.

Very lucky in that The Geek can take some bedding and towels when he goes on business plus maybe some clothes as he gets a double allowance. Don't think it will cover a bed though.

Oh it was real alright! ... and under that lot was 14 pairs of skateboarding trainers for my son, some Nike hoodies and some other clothing bits the kids can't get hold of out here.

I went back to London last November and that was the goodies I bought back ...

yeh melly as in melbourne......we pretty much know what area we want to be in when we get to aus and i am real estate quite alot looking at rentals and property to buy. going to hopefully stay at this place we stayed at in aus on our reccie like a little bungalow...couldnt fault it everything you needed, which will be a good base while we look for rented