Our house still hasn’t sold. 42 days or so on the market and two weeks since we’ve had a showing, but I’m still curiously optimistic. I don’t know how I’ll deal psychologically if this doesn’t work out. Let’s just not think about that 🙂
Here’s what our container will look like.
Doesn’t look that big, but we’ve been assured that everything we have left in our house should fit in there:
Dining room
Kitchen
Living Room
Three bedrooms
Clothes/Shoes for 2 adults & 2 children
Toys, bikes, etc.
We did get rid of a LOT at our moving sale back in February so when moving time does come, NO CLUTTER.
While getting rid of things, we didn’t keep anything electronic that we thought we could do without. That includes mostly all kitchen appliances, one television, some lamps. Now that I think about it, I shouldn’t have gotten rid of so many things. However, at the time we didn’t know we’d have enough space in the container. Oh well, no regrets!
Originally, we’d planned to sell or give away the electrical appliances we still have just before moving. That would include a television, PS3, Wii, DVD player, hair dryer, flat-iron, iron for clothes, a couple of lamps, coffee maker, espresso machine, rice cooker, and a few other little things that we consider important. Now that I think about it and I’ve done a bit of research (and I know we have enough space in the container), I do believe I’ll just go and buy enough $10 electrical adapter/converter devices and hold onto our appliances. That will save us a lot of running around buying things when we get to our apartment in Béziers, and it will be cheaper too.
A word about keeping the television. The only reason we will do this is to play video games and watch DVDs on it. It happens to be a nicer, newer T.V., so maybe we’d like to have the little luxury of having it, even if we won’t watch real television programs or French DVDs. We will need a larger size converter for this. Suggestions?
We’re not going to bring the car, though. I love my VW Beetle, but it’s just not worth what it would cost to ship it over. Plus, I’m pretty sure we’d have to have some changes made to the car once in France just to make it street legal.
What do you think? Any comments? Many of you probably have a lot more experience shipping personal goods overseas, so I’d be thrilled to receive any advice you may have.
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