10 Loading Hacks for Moving Abroad!

Hola from Peru!!

We have actually been in Peru for 4 days now and we've already fallen in love with this country and the people. Your prayers are felt and God has actually already offered in incredible ways. We will be in Lima for the next number of days, then we head to Cusco where we will be coping with a Peruvian household for a month while we attend language school. At language school I, Devyn, will be continuing to discover Spanish, while Julian will learn Quechua, the native language.

Anyways, as we were preparing to move to Peru and talking with individuals about relocating to another nation, we found that nearly everyone was curious to understand exactly 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 ... Take pleasure in!

1. Start Packing EARLY & Do it in Phases.

Packing is overwhelming (I will be stating that a lot in this blog haha) and if you resemble the majority of us, you have a lot of things, so leaving it all for the last minute will worry you out more. You may forget things or perhaps take too much. Julian and I started about 3 months in advance by getting rid of clothes and things we didn't need here and there (a lot of journeys to Goodwill). And we likewise began buying trunks early because they can get pretty expensive so spreading out that out helps. I also started posting ads early on Facebook to offer our furniture and from that we had pals purchase a lot of our things in advance to select it up when we were all set to move. Also making a list of whatever that is in each trunk is something Julian and I forgot to do but can be found in helpful when handling customs.

2. Take Pictures of Your House

This is actually for the memories. The apartment we left was our very first home together and it indicated a lot to us. So the photos are simply for us to bear in mind and perhaps reveal our future household one day, to know where it all started.

3. Packing Cubes!!

I have actually been an advocate for loading cubes considering that my trip to El Salvador a year earlier. On that journey, I could only take a carry on with me and was able to fit 2 weeks worth of clothing and toiletries!!! Needless to state we bought as a number of them as we might and were able to get most of my clothing into one suitcase. I will not lie, though packing cubes are great, packing all my clothing and attempting to make them all fit and not review the 50-lb limitation was EXTREMELY STRESSFUL and caused me lots of breakdowns haha (just being honest).

4. Find Somebody Who Lives/Has Lived Where You Are Going & Inquire ANY & ALL Questions.

This is something a great deal of other individuals where informing us to do and honestly we didn't believe it was that essential ... at first. But a couple of months before leaving and becoming overwhelmed by not knowing what to load we connected to another doctor called Ari, who is really presently residing in the home we will be moving into. She has actually genuinely 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 kitchen shelves to whether we required to bring rain boots.

5. Throw a Packing Party!

Welcome somebody over who is a master at Tetris, who has no issue informing you "you do not need that", and who can handle you being stressed. Our good friend Sandra was another God-send for us !! She came by (ON HER Day Of Rest) and invested the whole day, going through our things, making the calls we could not make on what we need to bring, donate, or shop. She assisted us load whatever in our trunks and helped make it all fit without being over 50 pounds. THANK YOU SANDRA!!!

6. Discover to Let Go ...

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

7. Bless Others with Your Things!

This was most likely my preferred part about moving. Like I stated earlier, we took lots of trips to Goodwill, however we also enabled our pals to go through all of our stuff and let them take whatever they wanted. It was really neat to understand that our things were entering into the houses of people we like!!

8. Bring Things that You Will Miss!

In talking with Ari and other individuals that have actually done what we are doing like Julian's moms and dads, everybody said the exact same thing, BRING THE THINGS THAT YOU WILL MISS. For us, great bedding was extremely essential, also great knives, a few framed images of our family and friends, 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 Second ... Many Seconds ... to Make Fun Of Your Circumstance!!

As I have actually discussed, packing is overwhelming. At any quality it can honestly make or break you. Do not let it break you. Take a second to scream, acknowledge the chaos around you, and after that just laugh due to the fact that it is nuts. What you are attempting to do is insane: your house has actually never looked worse, you are sleeping on a flooring, and showering without a shower drape while trying not to get too much water on the flooring, eating in restaurants of the very same bowl for every single meal, and only have one nice shirt considering that all the rest of your clothing are loaded. You're not living your typical life and its overwhelming, but if you take a look at a distance, its also amusing, so LAUGH! hahhaha! Likewise get out of your home, go explore the city you are leaving, meet good friends, and enjoy yourself, that actually helped us when packing was dragging us down!

10. Document the experience!

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