Enzyme

Hi

What are peoples thoughts on your personal items (home and garden stuff), sell up in UK and buy all you need (new or used) out there.

or take all you can? (Shipping costs etc.

Obvious things we would leave are

Cars, electrical devices (unless can run on 110V 60hz)

Obvious things to keep,

"Priceless" personal items, pets, OH (LOL)

G77

We had a shipping quote recently of £4120 + insurance for a 20ft container - for us it isn't worth it, but really depends what the quality of the stuff you have at the moment. We have mainly ikea stuff, so we can replace it cheaper from ikea over there....

dbd33

Take everything. Especially take all the broing things so you don't have to spend time and a surprising amount of money amassing a new set of laundry baskets, crab claw crushers, ironing boards and dog baskets.

Tanah

ha ha ha

G77

Do you have crabs often?

tracys

Hi, hope someone can help me with this question.

I may not want to take furniture but was wondering about things like toys, DVD's, CD's, games, children's school work that they bring home etc. Basically stuff that holds memories like photos and personal things. I've got boxes of pictures the children have given me over the years! Will I need to send these via container? Do the shipping companies do a special offer if you only use a little part of the container? If I do need a container I suppose I may as well fill it!

dbd33

Not as often as lobsters.

My point though is that all those things one rarely things about, the fondue set, the garden trowel, the lunge line, cumulatively are valuable and a bother to replace.

Souvenir

Tell the kids you're bringing them, throw them in the trash when the kids are not looking and then blame the movers for losing them. It's worked twice for us.

tracys

Why twice? Surely doing this once is enough for anyone!

Souvenir

A lot of accumulated crap got "lost" when we moved fro the UK to Canada. More crap got "lost" when we moved from Oakville to Gatineau.

AmyDavid

You can send boxes of things over with various companies - you don't need to have a container. This is what we did but I really really wish now that I bought all my UK furniture etc - so far it has cost us a forturne to replace everything and we haven't got stuff we really like - just stuff we could afford! Sofas are especially expensive and lots of them are flippin hideous!

Silverdragon102

We shipped approx 42 boxes 4 cubic meters for just over £1300 and dh mentioned the other day he wished he bought a few more things I was more than happy with what we packed. Furniture wise would say depends on what you have, ours was ready for replaces so decided to do it once in Canada

tracys

Thanks for your replies, at least I now know I don't have to go container route unless shipping furniture. Depends how long we have to wait as to whether our sofas will be past it or not

Probably have quite a few boxes as am quite sentimental about the kids stuff, not sure I could lose them on route and look them in the eye. Never was very good at fibbing, always got caught out as a child so I gave it up

Paradisefound

We sold 3 houses full of stuff and bought new everything for 2 houses here. Properties are so different here and styles, sizes can look strange in a different place, but then I was an Interior Designer and shopping around for deals on everything was a career. I have been in a number of houses where people have filled them with all the things from the UK and are finding it difficult to get things to look right. An example would be a painting of the Lakes hanging beside a window with a gorgeous but very different view. I would prefer pictures of the local scenary myself. I sold many oil and watercolor painting that I adore, but have enjoyed buying local works here. It is personal choice but I work on the principal of making room for new things to come into your life. Winston Churchill said " We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."

The extra cost was worth it and I am sure we did not end up spending that much more than paying for shipping everything out here. An example would be an Ikea sofa being 50% cheaper than in the UK.

Biiiiink

Could you link to that sofa, wow!