Hola from Peru!!
We have been in Peru for 4 days now and we have actually currently fallen for this country and individuals. Your prayers are felt and God has actually currently provided in amazing methods. We will remain in Lima for the next couple of days, then we head to Cusco where we will be coping with a Peruvian household for a month while we go to language school. At language school I, Devyn, will be continuing to find out Spanish, while Julian will learn Quechua, the native language.
Anyways, as we were preparing to transfer to Peru and talking with people about moving to another country, we discovered that practically everyone was curious to understand exactly HOW we were going to load for our move. So prior to 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 ... Enjoy!
1. Start Packing EARLY & Do it in Phases.
Packing is overwhelming (I will be saying that a lot in this blog site haha) and if you are like most of us, you have a great deal of things, so leaving all of it for the eleventh hour will worry you out more. You may forget things or possibly take excessive. Julian and I began about 3 months beforehand by getting rid of clothing and things we didn't require occasionally (so many journeys to Goodwill). And we likewise began buying trunks early since they can get quite pricey so spreading that out helps. I likewise began posting ads early on Facebook to offer our furnishings and from that we had friends buy a lot of our things in advance to pick it up when we were ready to move. Also making a list of everything that remains in each trunk is something Julian and I forgot to do however can be found in handy when handling custom-mades.
2. Take Pictures of Your House
This is actually for the memories. The apartment or condo we vacated was our very first house together and it implied a lot to us. So the photos are simply for us to bear in mind and possibly reveal our future family one day, to know where all of it began.
3. Loading Cubes!!
I have actually been an advocate for packing cubes considering that my trip to El Salvador a year ago. On that journey, I could only take a continue with me and was able to fit 2 weeks worth of clothes and toiletries!!! Needless to state we bought as many of them as we might and had the ability to get most of my clothes into one luggage. I won't lie, though loading cubes are terrific, packing all my clothes and trying to make them all fit and not review the 50-lb limitation was EXTREMELY DIFFICULT and caused me lots of breakdowns haha (simply being truthful).
4. Discover Somebody Who Lives/Has Lived Where You Are Going & Inquire ANY & ALL Concerns.
This is something a lot of other individuals where telling us to do and truthfully we didn't think it was that important ... in the beginning. But a couple of months prior to leaving and becoming overwhelmed by not knowing what to pack we reached out to another medical professional called Ari, who is really currently living in the home we will be moving into. She has actually truly been a God-send. I emailed Ari at least 3 times a week until we moved here. I asked her anything to everything: from the size of the kitchen racks to whether we required to bring rain boots.
5. Toss a Packing Party!
Invite someone over who is a master at Tetris, who has no issue informing you "you don't require that", and who can manage you being stressed out. Our good friend Sandra was another God-send for us !! She came over (ON HER Day Of Rest) and invested the entire day, going through our stuff, making the calls we could not make on what we must bring, donate, or store. She assisted us pack whatever in our trunks and helped make it all fit without being over 50 pounds. THANK YOU SANDRA!!!
6. Find Out to Let Go ...
At the end of the day you are moving overseas and can not take everything with you and will need to let go of a lot ... A Great Deal Of your things. For me it was shoes, for Julian ... he had this insane thing about keeping EVERY pen he owned since college. Hahha. Why idk, however with Sandra's aid Julian is now devoid of his pen dependency. Hahah!
7. Bless Others with Your Things!
This was most likely my favorite part about moving. Like I stated earlier, we took lots of journeys to Goodwill, however we likewise enabled our buddies to go through all of our stuff and let them take whatever they desired. It was really cool to know that our things were going into the homes of people we like!!
8. Bring Things that You Will Miss!
In talking with Ari and other people that have actually done what we are doing like Julian's moms and dads, everyone stated the very same thing, BRING The Important Things THAT YOU WILL MISS. For us, great bed linen was really essential, likewise good knives, a few framed pictures of our loved ones, and PEANUT BUTTER (obviously peanut butter is not a thing in other countries)! So that's what we ensured to pack!
9. Relax and Take A 2nd ... Lots Of Seconds ... to Make Fun Of Your Circumstance!!
As I have mentioned, packaging is overwhelming. At any quality it can honestly make or break you. Don't let it break you. Take a 2nd to shriek, recognize the mayhem around you, and after that just laugh because it is nuts. What you are trying to do is crazy: your home has never looked even worse, you are sleeping on a flooring, and showering without a shower drape while trying not to get excessive water on the floor, eating in restaurants of the exact same bowl for every meal, and just have one great shirt given that all the rest of your clothing are loaded. You're not living your typical life and its overwhelming, however if you look at a distance, its also amusing, so LAUGH! hahhaha! Likewise get out of your home, go check out the city you are leaving, meet up with buddies, and enjoy yourself, that actually assisted us when packing was dragging us down!
10. File the experience!
Its truly enjoyable to recall now on just how much Julian and I did in such little time. Here are some images of our last few months in Houston!
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