WaqasKhawaja

Hello again,

Another simple but important question. Will be beneficial for those planning to move in the coming months.

Following all you guy who have moved, what did you do with your belonging? eg. Bed, sofa's, TV, fridge freezer, washing machine etc?

Obviously what you would do is either:
1. Sell them
2. Give them to the less fortunate family member (for some quids or free)
3. Store them.

We've recently kitted out our flat but now decided to move to UAE. so we have a fair bit of new stuff... still under warranty

Your advice on what you have done will be helpful

Becci_Neil

Hi
We sold everything - car boots, ebay, friends, person who's moving into our flat. Gave a few old bits away. never going to get back what you've paid but we've made bout 2 grand, not including selling our car.
Only storing one or two things - paintings, personal stuff. might try and ship them out but will see once we're there.
Are you selling your flat or renting it out?? maybe condsider selling/renting as fully furnished - thats what we've done - fab, takes out all of the stress of packing, storing or selling.

WaqasKhawaja

we're renting ourselves at the mo....so we have alot stuff that we need to shift.

e.g our sofa cost us £1000 but in this market doubt we'll get £500...plus its only about 5 months old

Becci_Neil

I know - thats the only problem but unless you keep it or take it with you there's nothing you can do. we just accepted we wouldn't make what we paid and thought of it as money for our move! we thought about keeping big furniture and storing but then in a few years when we move home do we really still want to use 4 or 5 year old furniture.
maybe ask your land lord for an offer - even if its just stuff like pots and pans etc - in the end they'l get more rent offering a fully furnished place.

Roadking

If it's nice and you want to keep it, bring it with you. Electricals work on the same 3 pin plug and you'll need to buy once you get here anyway.

Becci_Neil

is it expensive to ship things over? i'm not talking massive furniture, just personal stuff - books, paintings, dvds etc

we're moving into a furnished place but have no idea how furnished or what we'll need yet.

Patsy Stoned

I brought everything over with me. Sorry I can't remember how much it cost......too long ago and I moved from Northern Cyprus not the UK

Madam Medusa

do a search there are a gazillion threads on this...

MM, xx

Becci_Neil

Cheers MM

I've been looking the past 2 hours - you're right there's loads - where to start?!?!?!?! lol

Might just bring 6 suit cases with me

Confucius

There's also a gazillion threads about 6 suitcases...

MacScot

Some people can't get their sofas into high-rise apartments here in Dubai...the limiting factor is the height within the lift cabin (max. 8 to 9 feet) !

Zico2009

When I moved out here in April I moved 42 boxes over not including bed/ sofa/ fridge. I did however take my 40" LCD.

It cost me 1300 GBP and was over within 4 weeks.

If you need the movers name PM me.

TGFKASE

I'd echo a few on here...

I moved everything over in a 40' container.. Was pretty easy as almost half the stuff was still in boxes from the move from the US back to the UK....

Jim Smith

Take them up the stairs!