I was told it can take between 21 and 25 days (or more) to ship around 600 cubic feet of property from San Francisco to Honolulu. Three weeks to a month is a long time to be without most of your stuff!! How do you make this work? Do you leave your bed behind so you have something to sleep on while you wait, and then have to buy a new bed at the new location?? Do you just live off plastic utensils and paper plates? No tv, no computer, nothing that whole time? Or should you keep a few smalls things and FedEx them right before you go? Do you stay in the empty place you're leaving or the empty place you're going to? If you stay in the place you're going to, what do you do about a bed?
2007-01-26 04:40:21 · 5 answers · asked by lurk 1 in Travel ➔ Travel (General) ➔ Packing & Preparation
I am moving simply to get out of California. I've lived within 40 miles of the same place my whole life and I love the islands. It's been a dream to move there for a long time.
2007-01-26 04:55:39 · update #1
Prioritize your needs. Moving is a good opportunity to reevaluate your priorities and allows you to divest yourself from a lot of junk. Sell as much as possible as shipping is expensive. Leave the bed behind. Buy one in Hawaii. Dishes? Unless they are family heirlooms, sell them and buy a set when you land. Things are expensive in Hawaii, but buying new stuff will probably be better for your sanity.
Carry those items that you absolutely cannot live without and ship the rest. I can't live without my PC so I'd consider taking it with me on the plane or making a backup on an external drive, wiping the PC's HD, selling/donating the PC and getting a new one when I land. Making the backup allows me to carry the external drive instead of the entire PC.
Good luck!
2007-01-26 05:05:46 · answer #1 · answered by ssbn598 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Having made that move in 1996 I can advise you to sell everything you don't absolutely have to have and start new. It is cheaper in the long run. TV, computer, ship them or sell them and get a laptop. Buy a new bed. If its over 5 years old its only got a few years left and time for a new one. You should be prepared to rough it with plastic disposable dishware and flatware. You can also ship things you can't live without when its time to go. Moving is not an easy project and seems like more research should have been done first. If this is a comapany paid or military move they should be compensating you for some of the inconveniences..
2007-01-27 04:13:30 · answer #2 · answered by Jim G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We moved from Australia to Europe and were without our stuff for about 12 weeks. We rented a fully furnished place in the mean-time, and just kept what we could fit in a suitcase.
We did have to end up courier-ing 5 boxes over in the end, but the cost wasnt too bad.
See if you can go straight there and rent some kind of apartment, maybe privately would be cheaper than a hotel. That way you can get a feel your new home, start looking for things you'll need like new schools, new job, new car, closest shopping mall etc. You could always just buy a blow-up or fold-up bed for now, then just keep it for future guests.
Whatever you do, hold onto your computer, we found ours really important when we arrived in our new country!
Good luck.............
2007-01-26 13:02:43 · answer #3 · answered by stabra 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When my family and I moved across country we stayed in an efficiency apartment for three weeks. It was like a little hotel room with a kitchen. It had all of the plates and cooking equipment. We took only the most important things as carry on and that was it. You can use any library or Internet cafe to get your email, and you make do. The time goes by quick and gets you in touch with your surroundings faster. After three weeks we had enough of the one room and moved into our empty nest. We bought sheets and blankets and pillows and camped on the floor and ate off paper plates. It was kinda fun and exciting!
It sounds like you are in for an adventure! Good luck!
2007-01-26 14:26:33 · answer #4 · answered by KEOE 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why are you going? Are you in the military? If so, then your stuff is split into three shipments, Hold Baggage, Househodl goods, and I cant remember the last category. But essentlially you carry those essential things you will need, personal care items, laptop, important records, passport. And you have them ship a few pots and pans, blankets, pillows, and other necessary items in a smaller shipment express. Then you wait for the other stuff til it gets there.
2007-01-26 12:48:14 · answer #5 · answered by higherground_pastor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋