Hola from Peru!!
We have been in Peru for 4 days now and we've currently fallen for this nation and individuals. Your prayers are felt and God has currently offered in incredible methods. We will remain in Lima for the next number of days, then we head to Cusco where we will be dealing with a Peruvian household for a month while we attend language school. At language school I, Devyn, will be continuing to learn Spanish, while Julian will discover Quechua, the indigenous language.
Anyways, as we were preparing to move to Peru and talking with individuals about moving to another nation, we discovered that nearly everyone wondered to know exactly HOW we were going to load for our move. So prior to we dove into how things are going here in Peru, we believed we 'd show y' all 10 hacks that we found in packaging to move overseas ... Delight in!
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 resemble the majority of us, you have a lot of stuff, so leaving it all for the last minute will worry you out more. You may forget things or perhaps take excessive. Julian and I started about 3 months ahead of time by eliminating clothes and things we didn't need occasionally (many journeys to Goodwill). And we likewise started purchasing trunks early since they can get pretty expensive so spreading that out helps. I also started publishing advertisements early on Facebook to offer our furniture and from that we had buddies buy a great deal of our stuff in advance to choose it up when we were ready to move. Likewise making a list of everything that remains in each trunk is something Julian and I forgot to do however can be found in useful when dealing with custom-mades.
2. Take Pictures of Your House
This is actually for the memories. The apartment or condo we left was our first home together and it meant a lot to us. So the photos are simply for us to keep in mind and perhaps reveal our future household one day, to know where everything started.
3. Loading Cubes!!
I have actually been a supporter for packing cubes since my trip to El Salvador a year ago. On that trip, I might only take a continue with me and was able to fit 2 weeks worth of clothes and toiletries!!! Needless to state we bought as a lot of them as we might and had the ability to get the majority of my clothes into one suitcase. I won't lie, though packing cubes are terrific, loading all my clothes and attempting to make them all fit and not go over the 50-lb limit was EXCEPTIONALLY DEMANDING and caused me lots of breakdowns haha (simply being honest).
4. Discover Someone Who Lives/Has Lived Where You Are Going & Ask ANY & ALL Concerns.
This is something a great deal of other individuals where informing us to do and honestly we didn't believe it was that crucial ... at first. But a few months before leaving and becoming overwhelmed by not knowing what to pack we reached out to another medical professional called Ari, who is in fact currently living in the home we will be moving into. She has truly been a God-send. I emailed Ari a minimum of 3 times a week up until we moved here. I asked her anything to everything: from the size of the kitchen area racks to whether we required to bring rain boots.
5. Toss a Packing Celebration!
Invite somebody over who is a master at Tetris, who has no issue informing you "you do not need that", and who can manage you being stressed out. Our good friend Sandra was another God-send for us !! She came by (ON HER DAY OFF) and spent the entire day, going through our things, making the calls we couldn't make on what we must bring, contribute, or store. She assisted us pack whatever in our trunks and helped make it all fit without being over 50 lbs. THANK YOU SANDRA!!!
6. Learn to Let Go ...
At the end of the day you are moving overseas and can not take everything with you and will need to release a lot ... A LOT of your stuff. For me it was shoes, for Julian ... he had this crazy thing about keeping EVERY pen he owned given that college. Hahha. Why idk, but with Sandra's aid Julian is now free from his pen addiction. Hahah!
7. Bless Others with Your Stuff!
This was probably my favorite part about moving. Like I said previously, we took lots of trips to Goodwill, however we also enabled our friends to go through all of our things and let them take whatever they desired. It was really neat to understand that our things were going into the houses of individuals we like!!
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 exact same thing, BRING THE THINGS THAT YOU WILL MISS. For us, excellent bed linen was extremely crucial, likewise excellent knives, a few framed images of our family and friends, and PEANUT BUTTER (apparently peanut butter is not a thing in other countries)! So that's what we made certain to pack!
9. Relax and Take A 2nd ... Lots Of Seconds ... to Make Fun Of Your Circumstance!!
As I have actually mentioned, packing is overwhelming. At any quality it can truthfully make or break you. Do not let it break you. Take a 2nd to shout, acknowledge the mayhem around you, and after that just laugh because it is nuts. What you are trying to do is crazy: your house has actually never looked worse, you are sleeping on a floor, and showering without a shower drape while attempting not to get excessive water on the flooring, eating out of the exact same bowl for every single meal, and just have one great shirt given that all the rest of your clothes are packed. You're not living your regular life and its frustrating, but if you look at a range, its also amusing, so LAUGH! hahhaha! Likewise get out of your house, go explore the city you are leaving, meet buddies, and enjoy yourself, that actually assisted us when packaging was dragging us down!
10. File the experience!
Its truly fun to recall now on just how much Julian and I did in such little time. Here are some photos of our last few months in Houston!
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