10 Packing Hacks for Moving Overseas!

Hola from Peru!!

We have actually remained in Peru for 4 days now and we've already fallen for this country and individuals. Your prayers are felt and God has currently offered in incredible ways. We will remain in Lima for the next number of days, then we head to Cusco where we will be dealing with a Peruvian family 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 native language.

Anyways, as we were preparing to move to Peru and talking with individuals about moving to another country, we discovered that nearly everyone was curious to understand precisely HOW we were going to pack for our relocation. So prior to we dove into how things are going here in Peru, we believed we 'd share with y' all 10 hacks that we discovered in packing to move overseas ... Take pleasure in!

1. Start Packaging EARLY & Do it in Phases.

Packing is frustrating (I will be saying that a lot in this blog haha) and if you are like the majority of us, you have a great deal of things, so leaving all of it for the last minute will stress you out more. You may forget things or potentially take too much. Julian and I started about 3 months ahead of time by getting rid of clothing and things we didn't require here and there (many journeys to Goodwill). And we likewise started purchasing trunks early due to the fact that they can get quite pricey so spreading out that out helps. I likewise began posting ads early on Facebook to sell our furniture and from that we had good friends purchase a lot of our things in advance to select 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 but comes in helpful when handling custom-mades.

2. Take Pictures of Your House

This is really for the memories. The apartment or condo we left was our first home together and it indicated a lot to us. So the images are just for us to remember and maybe show our future family one day, to know where everything began.

3. Loading Cubes!!

I have been a supporter for loading cubes given that my journey to El Salvador a year earlier. 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 say we bought as much 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, packing all my clothes and attempting to make them all fit and not go over the 50-lb limit was INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT and caused me numerous breakdowns haha (just being truthful).

4. Discover Someone Who Lives/Has Lived Where You Are Going & Ask ANY & ALL Questions.

This is something a great deal of other individuals where informing us to do and truthfully we didn't think it was that essential ... in the beginning. But a few months prior to leaving and ending up being overwhelmed by not knowing what to load we connected to another physician named Ari, who is in fact presently living in the apartment we will be moving into. She has really been a God-send. I emailed Ari a minimum of 3 times a week until we moved here. I asked her anything to whatever: from the size of the kitchen racks to whether we needed to bring rain boots.

5. Throw a Packing Celebration!

Welcome someone 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. Our buddy Sandra was another God-send for us !! She came over (ON HER DAY OFF) and invested the entire day, going through our things, making the calls we couldn't make on what we should bring, contribute, or store. She helped us load everything in our trunks and assisted make it all fit without being over 50 lbs. 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 LOT of your stuff. For me it was shoes, for Julian ... he had this crazy 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 Stuff!

This was most likely my preferred part about moving. Like I stated previously, we took lots of trips to Goodwill, however we likewise permitted our good friends to go through all of our stuff and let them take whatever they desired. It was really neat to know that our things were entering into the houses of people we love!!

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 parents, everyone stated the same thing, BRING The Important Things THAT YOU WILL MISS. For us, good bedding was very crucial, likewise excellent 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 made certain to load!

9. Chill Out and Take A Second ... Numerous Seconds ... to Laugh at Your Circumstance!!

As I have actually pointed out, packing is overwhelming. At any caliber it can truthfully make or break you. Don't let it break you. Take a second to shriek, recognize the mayhem around you, and then just laugh due to the fact that it is nuts. What you are attempting to do is crazy: your house has actually never looked even worse, you are sleeping on a floor, and taking a shower without a shower drape while attempting not to get excessive water on the floor, eating in restaurants of the very same bowl for every meal, and only have one good shirt given that all the rest of your clothing are packed. You're not living your normal life and its overwhelming, but if you take a look at a distance, its likewise amusing, so LAUGH! hahhaha! Also get out of your home, go check out the city you are leaving, meet up with friends, and enjoy yourself, that actually assisted us when packaging was dragging us down!

10. Document the experience!

Its truly enjoyable to recall now on how much Julian and I did in such little time. Here are some photos of our last few months in Houston!