If you are young, single and still sleeping on God Knows Who's couch of a Friday and Saturday night, then I would say bring yourself, a bank account containing as much money as you can muster from selling everything you own, your paragraph long C.V (that stands for Curriculum Vitae) and a 'life doesn't get better than this' attitude. Leave a box of 'treasures' with the oldies, to be couriered if you haven't returned with your tail between you legs within 5 years or so.
If you said 'see ya later' to God Knows Who and his couch a while back and have realised that nothing beats coming home to your own bed after a night on the town or better yet God Knows Who's bed has now also become your bed, you're living in domestic bliss and are ready for the two of you to take a giant leap into the unknown together before the stork visits, then I'd say bring yourselves, a suitcase or two of your best 'can't live without' shoes and handbags, a somewhat healthier bank account, you're by now page or two long C.V, and a 'life doesn't get better than this' attitude. Leave two or three boxes of 'treasures' with the oldies, to be couriered if you haven't returned within 10 years, having made a small fortune working your butt off in Oz but deciding NZ is the place to raise a family.
If God Knows Who and his couch are a hazy memory, one you can only wish you had the energy to revisit after being up all night with a child that won't sleep before the other child is up wanting their breakfast and a game of twister, you wonder if there's more to life and wish you'd gone on that big O.E before meeting Mr Right and delivering his offspring, then you might need a bit more planning and a few more boxes but it's do-able and probably easier than you think. You will most likely want to pack a hundred or so boxes of 'treasures' and bring them with you along with a 'life doesn't get better than this' attitude.
The first time we made the move across the Tasman we brought with us almost everything we had collected and deemed essential over two 30 year, one 7 year and one not-yet-a-year life-spans, an exercise we regretted somewhat after arriving for a couple of reasons. The container ship carrying our 172 cartons of 'necessities' takes an extraordinarily long time to sail the 2000-odd kilometres from New Zealand to Australia, up to 8 or so weeks in fact, it is amazing what no longer becomes necessary to life in that amount of time (whatever is necessary has to be purchased to allow for life to continue until the 'real' necessities arrive). Once we had arrived and had a chance to look around we realised household items were so inexpensive to buy new here that we would have been better off to pay less in moving costs, sell as much as we could live without on Trade-me and start over. Of course you can't expect the children to give up their toys or the wife to give up her shoes and handbags but anything without emotional attachment can become someone else's 'treasure'. After moving house 7 times in the last 7 years there's not a heck of a lot I'm emotionally attached to any more, the husband even looks at me twice when deciding what to pack.
The second time crossing the ditch we knew what we were doing and managed to whittle down the boxes to a mere 130, still while unpacking you come across things that make you wonder exactly what attachment one forms to the lid of a plastic container you haven't seen for a good 10 years.
I would strongly suggest employing an experienced moving company to pack up your entire house, well your belongings anyway, the house might be too heavy to lift, and transport it to your new address. We have used Crown movers once and Allied Pickfords twice both were okay but I would personally choose Allied Pickfords if we ever lose our minds and decide to do it all again.
My eyelids are finally drooping so until next time ............
The first time we made the move across the Tasman we brought with us almost everything we had collected and deemed essential over two 30 year, one 7 year and one not-yet-a-year life-spans, an exercise we regretted somewhat after arriving for a couple of reasons. The container ship carrying our 172 cartons of 'necessities' takes an extraordinarily long time to sail the 2000-odd kilometres from New Zealand to Australia, up to 8 or so weeks in fact, it is amazing what no longer becomes necessary to life in that amount of time (whatever is necessary has to be purchased to allow for life to continue until the 'real' necessities arrive). Once we had arrived and had a chance to look around we realised household items were so inexpensive to buy new here that we would have been better off to pay less in moving costs, sell as much as we could live without on Trade-me and start over. Of course you can't expect the children to give up their toys or the wife to give up her shoes and handbags but anything without emotional attachment can become someone else's 'treasure'. After moving house 7 times in the last 7 years there's not a heck of a lot I'm emotionally attached to any more, the husband even looks at me twice when deciding what to pack.
The second time crossing the ditch we knew what we were doing and managed to whittle down the boxes to a mere 130, still while unpacking you come across things that make you wonder exactly what attachment one forms to the lid of a plastic container you haven't seen for a good 10 years.
I would strongly suggest employing an experienced moving company to pack up your entire house, well your belongings anyway, the house might be too heavy to lift, and transport it to your new address. We have used Crown movers once and Allied Pickfords twice both were okay but I would personally choose Allied Pickfords if we ever lose our minds and decide to do it all again.
My eyelids are finally drooping so until next time ............
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