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    Plan and Pack for Your Overseas Move
    Plan and Pack for Your Overseas Move
    Plan and Pack for Your Overseas Move
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    Plan and Pack for Your Overseas Move

    By Carole Hallett Mobbs

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    How To Organise Your Packing and Decluttering to Make Your Move Abroad a Success From the Start

    The key to a successful relocation abroad is planning. And there’s just so much to organise and plan. This book will guide and support you as you take your first steps to your new life abroad.

    Those first steps are the actual moving part; the decluttering, the sorting out, packing up and ultimately relocating your family and home to a new place overseas. And that’s what this book concentrates on - efficiently planning your packing.

    Taking lessons I have learned the hard way and through trial and error, plus hints and tips from my own relocations with family and pets between dramatically different countries over the past decade, I detail a logical process to help make your relocation run smoothly for all the family. You’ll also find some advice on how to help your children cope with this upheaval and ideas on what to do once you arrive at your new home overseas.

    I can’t promise you completely stress-free - that would be unfair to you; moving house is stressful and that’s a fact. However, this book will help you through the first stages of relocating your family overseas, making it much less stressful for you all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarole Hallett Mobbs
    Release dateApr 24, 2017
    ISBN9781370692972
    Plan and Pack for Your Overseas Move
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    Carole Hallett Mobbs

    About ExpatChildExpatChild.com is an information website containing loads of sensible, useful and practical advice for parents considering a move overseas, and for expats currently abroad.We all want our children to thrive as happy, successful and well-adjusted individuals – wherever in the world they happen to live.We’ve been there and we have survived... and, most importantly, so have the kids!About Carole Hallett MobbsLate in 2006 we left Britain on our first overseas posting to Tokyo, Japan. We didn’t expect to still be overseas now, though! Life has a funny way of working out. After Tokyo, we moved to Berlin, Germany and then to Pretoria, South Africa We repatriated back to the UK early in 2018.I’ve travelled around the world, for work and for pleasure. And I’ve moved house quite a few times – some within the UK and more recently, overseas. I became excellent at packing!I aim to help you find your own way to enjoy your new life in a different country.

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      Plan and Pack for Your Overseas Move - Carole Hallett Mobbs

      PLAN AND PACK

      FOR YOUR

      OVERSEAS MOVE

      How To Organise Your Packing and Decluttering To Make Your Move Abroad a Success From the Start

      Carole Hallett Mobbs
      ExpatChild.com

      Copyright

      Copyright © 2017 Carole Hallett Mobbs

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, without prior written permission.

      http://expatchild.com

      Publisher’s Note: This publication is designed to contain accurate and authoritative information with regards to the subject matter covered. Whilst due care and attention has been exercising in the compilation of this publication, Carole Hallett Mobbs at ExpatChild.com cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions. This is especially relevant to you own personal situation as the publication has a generalised nature and cannot cover all your specific needs.

      You should always take due care and diligence when acting on any recommendations and tasks suggested in this publication. This reference is intended to assist in sharing information with you, and this information has, as always, been delivered as accurately as possible.

      The information in this publication is based on personal experience and anecdotal evidence and was correct at the time of going to press.

      About This Book

      Moving abroad with your family is both exhilarating and daunting at the same time. There’s just so much to organise and plan. This book will guide and support you as you take your first steps to your new life abroad.

      Those first steps are the actual moving part; the decluttering, the sorting out, packing up and ultimately relocating your family and home to a new place overseas. And that’s what this book concentrates on - efficiently planning your packing.

      Taking lessons I have learned the hard way and through trial and error, plus hints and tips from my own relocations with family and pets between dramatically different countries over the past decade, I detail a logical process to help make your relocation run smoothly for all the family. You’ll also find some advice on how to help your children cope with this upheaval and ideas on what to do once you arrive at your new home overseas.

      I can’t promise you completely stress-free - that would be unfair to you; moving house is stressful and that’s a fact. However, this book will help you through the first stages of relocating your family overseas, making it much less stressful for you all.

      Home is where the heart is, even if you can’t remember which box you packed it in.

      Contents

      You’re Moving Overseas!

      First Things First

      Plan Your Packing

      What Are Your Removals Options?

      What to Pack and Where

      What Else to Consider Moving?

      Moving Overseas With Pets

      Find an International Removal Company

      What To Take and What To Leave Behind?

      Declutter Before Moving Abroad

      Decluttering Tips

      Decluttering - Room By Room

      Relocation Stress and Children

      Prepare for the In-Home Survey

      Prepare for Packing Day

      Separate your Air freight, Luggage and Hand Luggage.

      What To Pack In Your Air Freight

      What To Pack In Your Luggage

      What To Pack In Your Carry-On Bags

      Final Preparations Before Packing Day

      It’s Packing Day!

      You’ve Arrived. Now What?

      First Days In Your New Home

      The Arrival of Your Container

      The Arrival of Your Pets

      Settling Into Your New Home

      About the Author

      About ExpatChild.com

      You’re Moving Overseas!

      It’s really happening! How exciting, and yet rather terrifying at the same time. Where on earth do you start? What do you do now?

      When you’ve made the decision to relocate your family to another country and everything is officially confirmed, reality suddenly sets in. There’s so much to organise. How on earth to you coordinate all the different decisions you face? How do you help your kids cope? How do you get all your stuff to a whole new country?

      Don’t Panic!

      Breathe! Take stock and start planning. Whether your relocation is personal or for work reasons, permanent or temporary, it can be a stressful, exhausting experience that warrants careful planning and organisation.

      The key to a relatively stress-free move is to start planning as far in advance as possible. Some people get loads of notice about their move while others don’t. Whichever scenario applies to your relocation, you still need to be as prepared and as organised as possible.

      Your Journey Starts Now

      Your journey to expat life starts before you leave your current home. You need to research your destination, of course, and work out what to take and what to leave behind. But it may not seem much like an adventure as you gaze at all the trappings of your home, wondering how on earth you’re going sort it out and pack it all up and move. This is probably the least exciting part of moving abroad.

      When you have to do this with kids around, it can be ‘interesting’, as you attempt to declutter and pack efficiently without causing upset. Who’d have thought that the dog-eared old teddy that has been stuffed down the back of the radiator for years could suddenly be your child’s most prized possession?

      And it’s not just all about what to pack either. You’ve also got to tackle how to pack, and who will help you move all your gear to your new home abroad. I’ll take you through the different steps you need to take to get your home sorted out, decluttered and packed up ready for your move abroad.

      Not counting quite a few domestic relocations, I’ve moved with my family and various pets from the UK to Japan; Japan to Germany and Germany to South Africa. All these moves have given me a wide range of experiences and insight. At the time of writing, I am very slowly preparing for our next move, from South Africa back to the UK.

      For obvious reasons, this publication can’t be all inclusive. There will be some topics not included that are relevant to you and your family, and other subjects that aren’t pertinent to you at all right now. But who can foretell the future?

      There will be many individual differences: where you’re moving from and to; hot climate to cold? Cold to hot? Furnished accommodation or unfurnished? You can see why it’s hard to cover every eventuality! But this book does its best to cover as much as possible. Just make sure you do your own research and prepare yourself as much as you can.

      Each relocation is unique. Each family is unique. But the general advice contained here applies to all.

      First Things First

      Get organised! You won’t believe just how long decluttering can take. Not only that, there are plenty of other things that need sorting out and organising, and all this can become overwhelming if you don’t plan well.

      You’ll be making many lists. Many! But panic not, ExpatChild.com has some great resources to help you plan your move.

      Checklists and Journals

      Download the free Moving Overseas checklist from ExpatChild. This is a full checklist which reminds you of all the things you need to do, when to do them and gives you a guideline time-frame to tick it all off.

      You will find it much easier to keep all your lists and paperwork together in a notebook or journal.

      The Relocation Journal

      You need some way of keeping all your many lists together - and there will be a lot, I promise you! Lists about which removal company to choose, lists about what to pack in which shipment, lists about what to sort out if you’re moving with pets, lists about what to pack and where… Lots of lists!

      ExpatChild has created the perfect way of dealing with all these lists: a stunning and useful Relocation Journal. This gorgeous notebook is a customised journal incorporating a To Do list which includes the moving checklist, and other useful pages. Plus there are loads of blank pages for your own notes, numerous to do lists and thoughts. Order yours now to get started as soon as possible!

      It always seems impossible until it’s done.

      - Nelson Mandela

      Plan Your Packing

      Packing for an international move is more a matter of prioritising each and every thing you own, and considering whether you will need, or even want it, it in your new country. A large part of this process is working out how long you can live without most of your belongings before they arrive at your destination.

      You have several consignments to organise. This means having separate packing sessions for your air freight, the shipping container and the luggage you take with you. As well as working out what you can live without for a few months, you need to make sure you can get up and running in your new home as soon as

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