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Originally Posted by FLOYD
How did some of you decide what items you would not move without and what itmes you would be better off replacing once settled in?
I don't think I would consider bringing electronics(tv, stereo, etc) that would be expensive to move and could be purchased over time once settled.
I have a couple of valuable, custom pieces of furniture I would hate to part with. The again I could possibly be money ahead to forget sentiment, sell these and buy what I need upon arrival.
Pictures, family albums, and this sort of thing are irreplacable but would be the least expensive to move.
The cost of moving a pet looks to be one of the bigger hurdles, the guy is laying on the floor beside my chair now. It don't think leaving him behind could be an option but I also worry about how he would handle the move, isn't there an isolation period (maybe 30 days)?
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Hi Floyd,
To ship all your worldly goods over to Australia, say on a 20 foot container ranges from approximately £3800 to £4500 (and I stress approximately!). To buy a new LCD TV here (at today's exchange rate) would be £965. A fridge/freezer would be £1000 - so your 'replacement' value on 2 items if you bought new over here is nearly £2000. The fee for shipping goods over is a 'job lot'. You're not paying on an individual basis for pieces of furniture etc. And you don't pay any import tax on anything over 12 months old.
TBH we just brought over everything we could cram into the container and then we're buying new as we go along and throwing out things we no longer need. To us it seemed more cost-effective to do it that way.
Why wouldn't you bring your furniture that has sentimental value? As long as it's not wood that has woodworm or signs of having woodworm..it'll fit in the container with everything else.
Moving our Milly over was around £2500. She was the easiest to organise out of everything that had to be done! She was in quarantine for 30 days and handled it really well. The quarantine stations look after your pet really well so don't worry.
Dolly