10 Packing Hacks for Moving Overseas!

Hola from Peru!!

We have remained in Peru for 4 days now and we have actually already fallen in love with this country and individuals. Your prayers are felt and God has actually already offered in incredible ways. We will remain in Lima for the next couple of days, then we head to Cusco where we will be coping with a Peruvian family for a month while we participate in language school. At language school I, Devyn, will be continuing to find out Spanish, while Julian will learn Quechua, the indigenous language.

Anyways, as we were preparing to relocate to Peru and talking with individuals about relocating to another country, we found that almost everyone was curious to understand precisely HOW we were going to load for our move. So before we dove into how things are going here in Peru, we thought we 'd show y' all 10 hacks that we discovered in packaging to move overseas ... Delight in!

1. Start Packing EARLY & Do it in Phases.

Packaging is frustrating (I will be stating that a lot in this blog haha) and if you resemble the majority of us, you have a great deal of stuff, so leaving everything for the eleventh hour will worry you out more. You may forget things or potentially take excessive. Julian and I started about 3 months beforehand by eliminating clothing and things we didn't require occasionally (a lot of trips to Goodwill). And we likewise began purchasing trunks early because they can get quite expensive so spreading out that out assists. I also began publishing advertisements early on Facebook to sell our furniture and from that we had good friends purchase a great deal of our stuff in advance to choose it up when we were prepared to move. Likewise making a list of everything that remains in each trunk is something Julian and I forgot to do but can be found in helpful when dealing with customizeds.

2. Take Pictures of Your Home

This is truly for the memories. The home we vacated was our first house together and it meant a lot to us. So the images are simply for us to bear in mind and possibly show our future household one day, to know where all of it started.

3. Loading Cubes!!

I have actually been an advocate for packing cubes given that my journey to El Salvador a year earlier. On that journey, I might just take a carry on with me and had the ability to fit 2 weeks worth of clothes and toiletries!!! Needless to say we bought as a number of them as we might and had the ability to get most of my clothes into one luggage. I will not lie, though loading cubes are terrific, packing all my clothing and attempting to make them all fit and not discuss the 50-lb limit was INCREDIBLY DEMANDING and triggered me many breakdowns haha (just being truthful).

4. Find Somebody Who Lives/Has Lived Where You Are Going & Ask Them ANY & ALL Concerns.

This is something a great deal of other individuals where informing us to do and honestly we didn't think it was that important ... at first. However a couple of months before leaving and becoming overwhelmed by not understanding what to load we connected to another medical professional named Ari, who is actually presently residing in the apartment we will be moving into. She has truly been a God-send. I emailed Ari a minimum of 3 times a week until we moved here. I asked her anything to everything: from the size of the cooking area racks to whether we required to bring rain boots.

5. Toss a Packaging Celebration!

Invite someone over who is a master at Tetris, who has no problem telling you "you do not require that", and who can handle you being stressed out. Our pal Sandra was another God-send for us !! She came by (ON HER DAY OFF) and invested the whole day, going through our stuff, making the calls we could not make on what we ought to bring, donate, or store. She helped us pack whatever in our trunks and helped make it all fit without being over 50 lbs. THANK YOU SANDRA!!!

6. Find Out to Let Go ...

At the end of the day you are moving overseas and can not take whatever with you and will need to let go of a lot ... A Great Deal Of your stuff. For me it was shoes, for Julian ... he had this insane thing about keeping EVERY pen he owned considering that college. Hahha. Why idk, but with Sandra's assistance Julian is now devoid of his pen addiction. Hahah!

7. Bless Others with Your Stuff!

This was probably my favorite part about moving. Like I stated previously, we took lots of trips to Goodwill, however we likewise permitted our buddies to go through all of our things and let them take whatever they wanted. It was truly neat to understand that our things were going into the homes of people we enjoy!!

8. Bring Things that You Will Miss!

In talking with Ari and other people that have actually done what we are simulating Julian's moms and dads, everybody stated the same thing, BRING The Important Things THAT YOU WILL MISS. For us, excellent bed linen was very important, also great knives, a couple of framed images of our friends and family, and PEANUT BUTTER (obviously peanut butter is not a thing in other nations)! So that's what we made certain to load!

9. Chill Out and Take A 2nd ... Numerous Seconds ... to Make Fun Of Your Scenario!!

As I have pointed out, packing is frustrating. At any quality it can honestly make or break you. Don't let it break you. Take a second to yell, acknowledge the turmoil around you, and after that simply laugh due to the fact that it is nuts. What you are trying to do is insane: your home has actually never looked even worse, you are sleeping on a flooring, and taking a shower without a shower curtain while attempting not to get too much water on the flooring, eating in restaurants of the very same bowl for each meal, and only have one good t-shirt since all the rest of your clothing are loaded. You're not living your regular life and its frustrating, however if you look at a range, its likewise amusing, so LAUGH! hahhaha! Likewise leave your home, go explore the city you are leaving, meet up with pals, and enjoy yourself, that really assisted us when packing was dragging us down!

10. Document the experience!

Its actually fun to recall now on just how much Julian and I performed in such little time. Here are some pictures of our last couple of months in Houston!