definately bedding it's expensive over here, if you plan a washing line bring a clothes prop you just can't get hold of one. Bring all that you have, buying all the little bits again is expensive.
books are expensive over here so if there's any favourites you want to buy do it now.

Everything. Just bring everything. You have so much crap you don't know that you need until it's gone and you have no idea of the cumulative cost of replacing all the items you currently own. Nor do you realise how much bother it is to go and get a new set of every boring item. Think about it, you arrive in a new country, maybe it's not an exciting country, but still won't there be something better to do than go and buy a new broom and set of dish towels?

Absolutely. If you're bringing a container, stuff it to the gills. We went to a saleroom/auction before coming over and bought a set of 1930s-ish dining chairs and an Edwardian (possibly) chest of drawers - we hadn't needed them, nor had room for them, in our small flat in London, but the cost was minuscule compared to what something of equivalent quality would have cost here. And with a bit of TLC (the chairs needed the drop seats reupholstering and a couple of repairs to the stretchers, and the chest needed a new knob or two...) they go very well in our (comparatively palatial) house.

Have you two been drinking?

Bring nothing. Reject your previous lives and start afresh with no more than you can carry, with a full heart and unbounded optimism.

< don't forget the snooker cues though>

Rotary lines are all the rage here now, you know:
http://www.canadiantire.ca/search/se...08474396672077

I wish we hadn't downsized quite so much when we shipped a container and we got rid of some good quality 1960's furniture that would have tied us over for a year or two here. We still have a couple of rooms in our house with no furniture as a result! Also, it gets a real drag spending your first few weeks scouring the shops for basic stuff like cutlery, plates, bedding, etc, etc, etc, so if you have stuff and it hasn't gone beyond its useful life then fill up any spare space in the container if you have it. It also mounts up on the startup costs too. You can always have a garage sale once you are more established!