md95065

Nice idea but, unless you ship your beds a couple of months in advance you aren't going to have them during those stressful first few months anyway.

Personally I think that it would be insane to ship things like beds unless someone else is paying or you find that you have a shipping container with some free space in it.

steveq

We bought our own shipping container, because we had to pack it slowly, and if we took more than a week (we took 6), it was cheaper.

So the beds all went in.

GeoffM

Yep, 6-12 weeks without your own beds. More for a west coast shared container, less for east coast own container. What would the OP sleep in?

hungryhorace

Agree with this tip. I recommend a latex bed for a cool sleep in the summer and a warm sleep in the winter months.

md95065

Cardboard box under a freeway overpass works in most parts of California ...

petitefrancaise

Now, that is useful info! Thank you.
I've been holding off buying new bed/mattress as I tried to work out the best materials.

Eddie35

Thank you all for your replies. They are very helpful and will help us come to a decision!

Pulaski

You "bought" a container? ..... What did you do with it after you had emptied it in the US?

steveq

I rent it to my new employer, we use it as a storage shed at work. The shippers wanted £120 /day to keep it on our site while it was loaded, because we were still operating a business until the day I moved, and also trying to keep continuity for customers as "we"* moved here, stopping everything and getting it loaded into a box just wasn't possible.




*Mrs Q is still commuting to the UK. She is currently loading out the last stuff into ANOTHER container, and the Landrovers into another, and then, finally, she'll move over permanently.

Steve_

So make sure you ship your beds early, or at least ship one bed early. And even if they do arrive six weeks later, better late than never, imo.

Strongly disagree. For reasons I could expound at length, but simpler to dig up the thread from 2010.

Steve_

I appreciate it's awkward to ship everything earlier because you still need it, but you're going to be without it at one end or the other, so ship the stuff six weeks before you leave, because the stress where you currently live is going to be easier to cope with than the stress of where you're going to, generally speaking, imo. Or if you've got two beds you can sleep on, ship one bed and leave the other one behind.

md95065

You "strongly disagree" that I think "that it would be insane" ...

I am impressed - you appear to know my mental state better than I do myself

TaraDeak

It's all so confusing lol - we're moving to California in September - not taking any beds so buying new out there - but I'd like to take some of our nice bedding - single beds and king size beds (UK sizes) will my duvet covers fit ones I buy there? Also, where can you buy decent beds?

PS we thought we'd hire furniture from Corts until ours arrives - has anyone done this?

OCKF

If you are moving to California you won't have any problems getting nice new beds without any delays....Look for your nearest "Living Spaces" shop and if you order anything by 4pm you can have it delivered and installed on the same day. It was a real god sent for us when we moved to OC!!

WJS

Sorry if I've missed something but if we wanted to bring our UK King size bed frame wouldn't a US Queen size mattress fit?