[Miffy]

We are packing up our house and its all due to go on Thursday / Friday this week. eeeeek!

My question is what are you flying with? (Apart from clothes and shoes) is anyone taking any house hold items to be getting along with until the container arrives or are you planning on muddleing through ???

We are flying with our mountain bikes and equipments so that is taking up one of our 32k pieces of luggage each. :roll: :laugh

Also we are taking our sleeping bags and mats, cos we reckon we will have to 'camp out' in the rented house until our stuff arrives.
We are also taking our mess tins, camping stove (no fuel we'll get that there) and cutlery including most importantly a bottle opener and corkscrew!! :cheers

Anything else you think woud be a good idea to take / fly with us instead of buying out there (so to keep those horrid costs down) ????

( edit ham fisted typing = loads of typos )

[foolsgold99]

I'm taking our George Forman grill, as part of my flight luggage.

Fast and easy to use, and cuts down on the number of takeaways.

[Milliemoo]

Toilet roll!

Oh and cleaning products. The first thing I would do is clean the rental. Couldn't sleep until I did that. Best be careful which type of cleaning products are OK though.

Milliemoo :nice1

[leslie]

good lord. is it THAT expensive??? i am trying to figure out if we can get away with carry-on luggage. i travel with a small espresso maker but i do that for the benefit of everyone else...

wouldn't you rather take a magnum of beautiful champagne???

[veronica]

I wouldn't bother to take all that sort of stuff, its all available here, We brought our duvet and one set of linen, our clothes and important papers. Really anything else you can pick up cheap when u get here, things like plates, electric kettle, maybe an outdoor table and chairs set etc here and camp indoors. Where are you heading for.

[StuW]

I'm taking our George Forman grill, as part of my flight luggage.

Fast and easy to use, and cuts down on the number of takeaways. :?

Toilet roll!

Oh and cleaning products. The first thing I would do is clean the rental. Couldn't sleep until I did that. Best be careful which type of cleaning products are OK though. :(

I hope these were both tongue in cheek responses. I really wonder about some people on here sometimes.

We took phone chargers, UK plug adapters, the wife took hair dryer, etc. I also took my laptop, as I was working as soon as we arrived.

I wouldn't get too carried away, New Zealand IS a developed country - regardless of what some people on here might say! :P

Just enjoy the flight(s) - it's the start of a whole new adventure.

[sarahw]

Hi there,

What we brought...

All important documents (you will be a while without all your files so we brought contact details for all of our banks/credit cards as well).

Address book with everyone at home's phone & e-mail addresses.

Phone charger I bought here but adaptor if you can find them UK-NZ (if not they sell them in the pharmacies here). Old mobile phones for sure bring with you to change sim card.

Clothes that are easily washable in laundry since it'll probably be a few weeks until you get into your rental property & get a washing machine so you want to make sure you're not having to wash everthing out in the sink.

Travel hairdryer.

Plenty of money (via bank) - we went to the Warehouse & bought everything we needed to tide us over until the container arrived.

Good luck with the journey & its pretty exciting when that container arrives at the other end - we found it was like Christmas unwrapping stuff that we had forgotten we owned!! :mrgreen:

[Milliemoo]

I wouldn't get too carried away, New Zealand IS a developed country - regardless of what some people on here might say! :P


Gosh really....thanks for the tip! :uhoh

We'll be going to straight to a rental when we arrive (fingers crossed) and the last thing I'd want to be doing when I walk through the front door is worrying about the little essentials :mrgreen:

Everyone's different. Some people will be relaxing in a hotel for a few nights, some people will be self catering and some will be moving straight into homes (in my case quite possibly a mental home LOL).

All I'd say is be prepared for your own situation. :P

Thanks for the reminders Sarah. It's amazing how many things you don't think about which will have to go in the hand luggage like important docs etc

Milliemoo :nice1

[StuW]

We'll be going to straight to a rental when we arrive (fingers crossed) and the last thing I'd want to be doing when I walk through the front door is worrying about the little essentials

Ok. Appreciate that, but surely there are things you'd rather be taking with you than a bottle of oven cleaner !?

Unless you'll be moving in to a place next door to the airport you'll be able to pick them up on the way there.

To think that you'll be signing up to a rental before you get to NZ is a little worrying too - unless you have someone looking for you I guess - then you can get them to buy all those little essentials for you!

[leslie]

we met the top agent in nz and she advised us against signing rental ag's before actually there. so, unless you've an inside track/ useful friend best tread v carefully on this one.

[Diny]

we met the top agent in nz

I wonder how many agents claim this title :?




All I'd say is be prepared for your own situation



I couldn't agree more :nice1

Diny

[neilw71]

.....your own dressing gown and bed sheets!! :P :P Everything else is DIRT cheap at the Warehouse and you will only spend a few GBP getting everything you need to keep you going until the container arrives!

Neil :P

[Milliemoo]

We'll be going to straight to a rental when we arrive (fingers crossed) and the last thing I'd want to be doing when I walk through the front door is worrying about the little essentials

Ok. Appreciate that, but surely there are things you'd rather be taking with you than a bottle of oven cleaner !?

Unless you'll be moving in to a place next door to the airport you'll be able to pick them up on the way there.

To think that you'll be signing up to a rental before you get to NZ is a little worrying too - unless you have someone looking for you I guess - then you can get them to buy all those little essentials for you!

Don't worry, we're not just looking at the realenz site and saying 'oh that looks nice' LOL
We have a contact who we'll be meeting up with when we take a wee visit later this year who owns a few properties.

As for the cleaning products....... Just call me Monica :mrgreen:

Milliemoo :nice1

[leslie]

this agent is nz top seller. sells the palaces.

pretty switched on lady. orig from canada, i believe. looks like young liza m, same outgoing personality. we recommend and will liaise with her when we arrive. although we'll be looking for a folly...

[jonSE]

UK 2 NZ elec adapter, but even better bring a v short extension lead with a 4 way UK outlet on one end and no plug on the other end. Buy a plug when you get here.

on a similar note if you don't know how to wire a plug learn before you get here. Before you pack your boxes cut the plugs of all your elec items and give them away to your friends. UK plugs have no value here.

It's one less heartbreaking task for when you arrive - the waste of all those lovely MK plugs.

Budget to pay about $90NZ for 20 NZ plugs.

Jon
fedup with wiring plugs up

[Glenda]

Further to Jon's reply above, perhaps it is a good idea to find a space in the suitcase for a tool kit. :?

[Miffy]

Leather man and multi tool is already going as part of the bike equipment.

Thanks for the tips, am containing the 4 gang plugs and as I'm not flying with any electrical equipment no need to take any adaptor plugs (they'll get containered. BTW the Asda and Tesco are doing these dirt cheap, alot less than Robert Dyass, B&Q and the like).

Also need to remember to get out all the important documentation, not only the usual travel ones, but copy of our car insurance history, banking history etc.

Do I need to go to the doctors to get a copy of our medical records, or nce I've regestered over in NZ will they do a dr to dr transfer ???

[sarahw]

Drs in the UK won't give you a copy of your medical records but for the bargain :roll: (more money!) price of £10 per person they'll give you a printout in a sealed envelope for you to give to your new Dr which has all major information on it. We did that & it helped when I needed to go to the Drs here - they actually asked if I had that.

I'd also recommend you bring photocopies of things like birth certificates as the IRD & various other places like banks want copies of your documents in order to set things up - proved very useful for us!

Also with regards to rentals we thought we were going to get straight into one - had an appointment with an Estate agent on day 2 in NZ - we'd been in e-mail and phone contact with her for weeks before and told her we wanted to look at 3 bed houses on the day we came in to see her (booked a date & time waaaay in advance)... when we turned up she just gave us a list of rentals & told us to do a drive round & see if there were any we liked from the outside like they would have done if we walked in off the street!!!!!! (we thought she was going to take us out to look at some!) It turned out that the house we wanted wasn't available immediately & everything else smelled of damp, was too small or was on a busy road ... so despite our best laid plans of expecting to be in a rental within a week we ended up in a motel for 4 weeks after spending a week in a b&b. I'm certainly not suggesting that this will happen to anyone else (& very much hope not!) but just be prepared to go with the flow if you have to.

By the way Jon - we're 3 months on & still re-wiring plugs :laugh - Ian complained to me the other night that the bedside lights weren't working & I needed to go out & get some lightbulbs... nope - more new plugs required - we bought a bumper bag full from Bunnings & he's still doing 2 or 3 every weekend!!!

[jubjub]

Our Dr's gave us photocopies our of records, but they did charge us £30 for the privelege, as I have a "complex" history and there was quite a lot of paper! You are entitled to copies of your records, but the surgery is entitled to charge you up to a max £50 per person for the privilege.

Having been overseas before, my old records did not go overseas when I registered with a new doctor, and in my current records there is nothing from when I was overseas, if that makes sense!

http://www.emigratenz.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1682

see this thread for more info.

We have also requested dental records, but dont know if we are getting charged for them yet.

[Mildred]

looks like young liza m
Who?

[Mildred]

Don't know why this has gone on the wrong link. Should have been on the Making the Move topic?

[Mildred]

Sorry, well and truly lost the plot. Must be because I didn't have any wine last night! :oops:

My question was on the right link. Who is Lisa M?

With that I'm gong to have a nice strong cup of coffee to wake me up properly :laugh

[sweetpea]

Muddling through! Mostly I'm bringing stuff that I suspect I got for much cheaper in the US or that may not be available in NZ or that I'm sentimentally attached to.

I'm bringing on the plane:

Important docs (school reg, tax info, birth certificate, etc)
My down comforter (I'm kinda like Linus from Charlie Brown that way)
A soft, broken-in set of flannel bedding
Clothes & 3 pairs of shoes
Superlight tent & sleeping bag
Lexan (?) french press coffeemaker
Required textbooks for first semester + Lonely Planet guide
"Greenies" = doggie crack
Dog citronella anti-bark collar
Laptop & printer

Mailing via USPS economy (sea mail):
More books
More clothes & shoes
More linens
The best of my collection of other people's bad pottery
My computer armoire disassembled into many pieces

Buying in NZ:
Everything else


Laura