I'm trying to plan our move from Oahu back to Los Angeles. We have too much for airline baggage, but too little for a shipping container. We're selling all the furniture and big items, and planning to buy used replacements when we arrive. We're paring down our belongings as much as we can bear, but it's still not going to fit in airline baggage. I'm talking medium-value, medium-sized things like baking pans, shoes, small kitchen appliances, and books. What's the cheapest way to ship all this little stuff?
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posted by lostburner
on Mar 19, 2013 -
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I'm planning to move in a little over a year and will only bring what I can fit in my car. How do I start clear out most of my possessions?
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posted by mtphoto
on Nov 13, 2012 -
21 answers
I'm moving. I want to do it in the most efficient way possible. Absent a magic wand, any tips/best practices/suggestions/lessons learned?
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posted by TravellingCari
on Aug 22, 2012 -
28 answers
I'm looking for moving/shipping companies to send a couple of boxes of books & clothes from Australia to the USA (as I'm relocating). While requesting quotes, one company strongly suggested that I hire them to
pack my things for me as apparently US Customs get suspicious if the boxes were packed by the individual mover (me, in this case) rather than by a professional. I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere else and the US Customs website hasn't addressed this. What's going on?
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posted by divabat
on Jul 1, 2012 -
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Moving from Brooklyn, NY to San Diego, CA. Have about 10-15 large/heavy boxes to ship to CA. A few boxes are primarily books and DVDs. The others are clothes and shoes. Nothing super fragile. I don't have a car. What is the best/easiest/most affordable way to do this? Halp!
posted by blackcatcuriouser
on Jun 19, 2012 -
16 answers
I'm packing for a move from a dry climate ~7,000 feet above sea level to a wet one ~300 feet above sea level. What precautions should I take to ensure all my stuff survives the trip? Anything else I should be mindful of for adjusting to the new environment?
posted by The Winsome Parker Lewis
on Jun 15, 2012 -
8 answers
I'm moving in about ten days, I'm disabled, and my mother (who is in her mid-sixties) is here helping me pack. I've got four of five hundred books, mostly paperbacks and mostly genre fiction, about which I'm finally being sensible and eliminating. The problem we're having is that it's almost as much trouble to get rid of these as it would have been to pack them.
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posted by Ivan Fyodorovich
on May 19, 2012 -
24 answers
Moving to Copenhagen for 3 months, excited and nervous! What will I eat? What should I bring with me to wear? How will I get around? How will I stay in touch? Hope me, hivemind! (MANY details inside because I am such a special snowflake)
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posted by zingiberene
on May 11, 2012 -
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Tips on moving! Have you moved across country / to a different country? With a wife and two kids? How did you organize it? I am looking for specific things that we need to add to our checklist / to-do list. Are there any good checklists out there already? We will need to line up housing. What did you forget about? What did you do that you shouldn't have done. How do you line up housing when your thousands of miles away. Specific packing / organization tips? I would like to prevent this move from becoming stressful. Please help our family move with the least amount of pain. Moving to Austin Texas if it matters.
posted by jasondigitized
on May 23, 2011 -
11 answers
What is the safest and cheapest way to ship 4-7 boxes (and possibly an iMac) overseas?
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posted by iamkimiam
on May 23, 2010 -
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Is there anything similar to freecycle or craigslist for items one wants to borrow and return?
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posted by shaun uh
on Mar 31, 2010 -
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Can you tell me where to find cheap packing material for moving - bubble wrap, newsprint, peanuts, whatever. I've already seen
this thread on where to get moving boxes, and if you have anything new to add, that'd be great. In case it matters, we're moving a standard 2 bedroom apartment across town in the far northwest Chicago suburbs. Nothing particularly valuable.
posted by desjardins
on Jun 13, 2009 -
17 answers
Less than six months before moving internationally - how do I manage all my stuff?
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posted by divabat
on Nov 8, 2008 -
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What is the most secure and cost effective way to start moving a small number of things to the US from France?
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posted by tip120
on Aug 18, 2008 -
5 answers
This is my first real (cross-country) move. What are your best packing/moving strategies that I should adhere to?
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posted by Asherah
on Aug 2, 2008 -
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My girlfriend and I are moving across the country, from DC to the metro Dallas area. I've never moved cross-country on this scale, so what tips/advice/warnings can you give me about this sort of move?
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posted by SNWidget
on May 27, 2008 -
16 answers
Help a nervous kid sort through all the helpful AskMeFi threads already out there to answer this question: I'm moving from the Bay Area to Brooklyn - how can I do it effectively?
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posted by rmrudy
on Aug 15, 2007 -
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At the end of this month I'll be moving from Ottawa, Canada, to Beijing, China to work as a software developer for a couple years. What should I bring with me, and what am I better off buying once I arrive?
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posted by benign
on Jul 15, 2007 -
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MovingFilter - Alright, Mefi, one last time. In about 24 hours, we need to load up our car with our worldy possesions and ship the rest for our move cross country. How best to ship about a dozen boxes of a standard size?
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posted by EatTheWeak
on Sep 28, 2006 -
17 answers
We move in just a couple weeks. We're stuffing all our belongings that will fit into the car and shoving of. Among these belongings will be two desktop computers. What is the safest way to transport these?
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posted by EatTheWeak
on Sep 12, 2006 -
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I will soon be moving permanently from California to the UK. Besides the headaches of visa applications and plane tickets, I have an awful lot of crap I need to ship over. I'm looking for the cheapest, safest way to ship large amounts of clothing, books, etc. overseas. I don't mind if the cheapest option means it will take 3 months to arrive. Any advice on this matter is welcome.
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posted by circe
on Jun 2, 2005 -
12 answers
Moving mistakes? I'm looking for generalized moving advice, apartment to apartment. There are great threads (
this one on moving to NY is really a classic) but what about the nuts and bolts of getting things into boxes and out again? What did you screw up last time? What do you know now that I don't yet?
posted by CunningLinguist
on Dec 21, 2004 -
64 answers
