10 Loading Hacks for Moving Overseas!

Hola from Peru!!

We have remained in Peru for 4 days now and we have actually already fallen in love with this country and individuals. Your prayers are felt and God has currently offered in remarkable methods. We will remain in Lima for the next couple of days, then we head to Cusco where we will be living with a Peruvian household for a month while we participate in language school. At language school I, Devyn, will be continuing to find out Spanish, while Julian will learn Quechua, the native language.

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

1. Start Packing EARLY & Do it in Stages.

Packaging is overwhelming (I will be stating that a lot in this blog haha) and if you are like most 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 potentially take excessive. Julian and I started about 3 months ahead of time by eliminating clothes and things we didn't require occasionally (so many trips to Goodwill). And we likewise began buying trunks early because they can get quite costly so spreading that out helps. I likewise began posting advertisements early on Facebook to offer our furniture and from that we had good friends purchase a great deal of our things in advance to select it up when we were ready to move. Also making a list of whatever that remains in each trunk is something Julian and I forgot to do but comes in helpful when dealing with customizeds.

2. Take Pictures of Your Home

This is truly for the memories. The apartment or condo we vacated was our first house together and it suggested a lot to us. So the pictures are just for us to bear in mind and maybe show our future family one day, to understand where it all began.

3. Packing Cubes!!

I have actually been a supporter for loading cubes given that my journey to El Salvador a year earlier. On that journey, I could just take a carry on with me and was able to fit 2 weeks worth of clothes and toiletries!!! Needless to say we purchased as a number of them as we might and were able to get most of my clothing into one suitcase. I won't lie, though loading cubes are terrific, packing all my clothes and attempting to make them all fit and not review the 50-lb limitation was EXCEPTIONALLY DIFFICULT and triggered me lots of breakdowns haha (just being truthful).

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

This is something a lot of other people where informing us to do and truthfully we didn't believe it was that important ... initially. But a couple of months prior to leaving and ending up being overwhelmed by not understanding what to pack we connected to another physician called Ari, who is in fact presently residing in the house we will be moving into. She has actually really 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 racks to whether we needed to bring rain boots.

5. Throw a Packing Celebration!

Welcome somebody over who is a master at Tetris, who has no problem informing you "you do not need that", and who can handle you being stressed. Our friend Sandra was another God-send for us !! She came over (ON HER Day Of Rest) and invested the whole day, going through our things, making the calls we couldn't make on what we need to bring, contribute, or shop. She helped us load everything 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 everything with you and will have 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 because college. Hahha. Why idk, however with Sandra's assistance Julian is now devoid of his pen dependency. Hahah!

7. Bless Others with Your Things!

This was most likely my preferred part about moving. Like I stated earlier, we took many trips to Goodwill, but we likewise permitted our good friends to go through all of our stuff and let them take whatever they desired. It was truly neat to understand that our things were going into the homes 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, everybody said the very same thing, BRING The Important Things THAT YOU WILL MISS. For us, excellent bed linen was very essential, likewise excellent knives, a few framed images of our friends and family, and PEANUT BUTTER (obviously peanut butter is not a thing in other countries)! So that's what we made certain to load!

9. Relax and Take A Second ... Many Seconds ... to Laugh at Your Situation!!

As I have discussed, packing is frustrating. At any caliber it can honestly make or break you. Don't let it break you. Take a second to scream, recognize the turmoil around you, and then simply laugh since it is nuts. What you are attempting to do is crazy: your house has actually never ever looked worse, you are sleeping on a flooring, and showering without a shower curtain while attempting not to get excessive water on the flooring, eating in restaurants of the very same bowl for every single meal, and only have one nice t-shirt considering that all the rest of your clothes are loaded. You're not living your regular life and its frustrating, but if you look at a range, its also funny, so LAUGH! hahhaha! Also get out of your home, go explore the city you are leaving, meet up with good friends, and enjoy yourself, that really helped us when packing was dragging us down!

10. File the experience!

Its really fun to look back now on just how much Julian and I did in such little time. Here are some pictures of our last couple of months in Houston!