Packing up

Once we made the call to leave, the big question was who to trust with transporting all our precious belongings.
I went online to see if there were any review forums on international removalist companies but there was very little (one of the reasons I also wanted to write this blog). We received a quote from 5 companies and they all appeared very professional and all gave us the various reasons as to why they were so good.

In the end they all seemed similar so we chose based on price. We ended up going with Movements International who were willing to hold our container back in Sydney for four weeks, which we required. It turned out that they used Crown Removalists in Auckland which is one of the other companies we received a quote from.
The insurance is a bit of a rort. It cost us roughly $6000 to send our stuff and they wanted to charge near on half that to insure it. We chose to insure our electrical only. Mind you we had a full 20 ft container to ourselves so not much chance of goods being mixed up with other people you share a container with.

The day of the move Mick & Eva turned up. They were a lovely husband and wife team and as soon as they arrived my fears of having my precious record collection 'go missing' were layed to rest. At least at this end anyhow. I just hope they don't get cooked in the container.

It was just the two of them and they were awsome. They methodically went thru each room and converted everything we owned into brown boxes or brown paper. Kind of sad to think you're whole life can be reduced to brown paper. Perhaps if they'd used coloured paper I might feel better about it.

The next day they again arrived but this time in a truck with a 20 ft container on the back. It looked absolutely massive but by the time they'd moved everything from the house into the truck and started working on the garage stuff i wasn't sure they'd get everything in. But Mick worked his magic (I'm sure he is an expert at Tetris) and everything got squeezed in with barely enough space for a couple more boxes. Quite impressive really.

So we won't see our belongings now for another 7 weeks if all goes according to plan.

Hopefully by then we'll have a car, house and job. Fingers crossed.



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