10 Packing Hacks for Moving Overseas!

Hola from Peru!!

We have remained in Peru for 4 days now and we've already fallen in love with this country and individuals. Your prayers are felt and God has already supplied in incredible ways. We will be 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 go to 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 people about relocating to another nation, we found that nearly everybody wondered to understand precisely HOW we were going to pack for our relocation. So before we dove into how things are going here in Peru, we believed we 'd share with y' all 10 hacks that we found in packaging to move overseas ... Enjoy!

1. Start Packaging EARLY & Do it in Stages.

Packaging is overwhelming (I will be stating that a lot in this blog haha) and if you resemble most of us, you have a lot of stuff, so leaving everything for the eleventh hour will stress you out more. You might forget things or perhaps take too much. Julian and I started about 3 months in advance by getting rid of clothing and things we didn't require occasionally (a lot of trips to Goodwill). And we likewise began purchasing trunks early because they can get pretty costly so spreading that out assists. I also started posting advertisements early on Facebook to sell our furnishings and from that we had friends purchase a lot of our things in advance to pick it up when we were prepared to move. Also making a list of everything that remains in each trunk is something Julian and I forgot to do but comes in handy when dealing with customs.

2. Take Pictures of Your House

This is truly for the memories. The apartment we left was our first house together and it indicated a lot to us. So the images are simply for us to bear in mind and possibly reveal our future family one day, to understand where everything started.

3. Loading Cubes!!

I have actually been an advocate for loading cubes because my trip to El Salvador a year ago. On that journey, I could just take a continue with me and had the ability to fit 2 weeks worth of clothing and toiletries!!! Needless to say we purchased as much of them as we might and had the ability to get the majority of my clothes into one travel suitcase. I won't lie, though loading cubes are terrific, packing all my clothing and trying to make them all fit and not go over the 50-lb limit was EXCEPTIONALLY DIFFICULT and triggered me lots of breakdowns haha (simply being truthful).

4. Find 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 ... in the beginning. But a couple of months before leaving and ending up being overwhelmed by not understanding what to pack we reached out to another medical professional called Ari, who is actually currently living in the house we will be moving into. She has actually truly been a God-send. I emailed Ari a minimum of 3 times a week till we moved here. I asked her anything to whatever: from the size of the cooking area shelves to whether we required to bring rain boots.

5. Toss a Packaging Party!

Invite someone over who is a master at Tetris, who has no issue telling you "you do not require that", and who can handle you being stressed out. Our buddy Sandra was another God-send for us !! She came by (ON HER DAY OFF) and spent the entire day, going through our stuff, making the calls we could not make on what we must bring, contribute, or store. She assisted us load whatever in our trunks and assisted 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 whatever with you and will need to release a lot ... A Great Deal Of your stuff. For me it was shoes, for Julian ... he had this insane feature of keeping EVERY pen he owned considering that college. Hahha. Why idk, but with Sandra's aid Julian is now free from his pen addiction. Hahah!

7. Bless Others with Your Things!

This was probably my preferred part about moving. Like I stated previously, we took lots of journeys to Goodwill, however we also permitted our buddies to go through all of our things and let them take whatever they desired. It was really cool to understand that our things were going into the houses of individuals we enjoy!!

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 said the same thing, BRING The Important Things THAT YOU WILL MISS. For us, great bedding was really important, likewise great knives, a few framed pictures 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 load!

9. Relax and Take A 2nd ... Lots Of Seconds ... to Make Fun Of Your Scenario!!

As I have actually pointed out, packing is overwhelming. At any quality it can truthfully make or break you. Do not let it break you. Take a second to scream, recognize the mayhem around you, and then just laugh because it is nuts. What you are trying to do is crazy: your house has never ever looked worse, you are sleeping on a flooring, and taking a shower without a shower curtain while trying not to get too much water on the floor, eating in restaurants of the same bowl for every single meal, and only have one great t-shirt since all the rest of your clothes are packed. You're not living your normal life and its overwhelming, but if you look at a distance, its likewise amusing, so LAUGH! hahhaha! Likewise leave your home, go check out the city you are leaving, meet friends, and enjoy yourself, that really helped us when packing was dragging us down!

10. Document the experience!

Its truly enjoyable to look back now on just how much Julian and I carried out in such little time. Here are some images of our last couple of months in Houston!