So I signed an expatriat contract with a company based in another state. I feel like I knew what I was doing when I did it, but boy has this been an interesting ride.
Own a home? Yes? Do you sell it or rent it out?
Either way, what do you do with all your stuff? Do you keep it all? Purge it all? Mixture of both? Where do you store it? In your current town where you have nobody to manage it? In your new town, where you have nobody to manage it? In your hometown, so your mom can manage it? Hindsight is 20/20 and we should have left it in our current town. Movers, rental trucks and driving for hours in a box truck is just not ideal on such a short time frame.
Oh, so you decided to sell your house? Your realtor now decides what you change about your house to make it sell. Spend money on things you always meant to get around to fixing, but never did. But now a new owner gets to enjoy all the new nice things. Cross your fingers you made the right choices, but then wait for the inspection to find out you need to spend more money to fix more things. As obnoxious as the process was
Don’t even get me started on the appointments! New insurance and new state means new doctors and specialists and dentists, oh my. Need a prescription filled? Jump through hoops to find a doctor that will prescribe a larger amount and an insurance override in a short amount of time.
But we are moving the UK! It’s still a bit unbelievable at this point, but so exciting and terrifying at the same time. Stay tuned for more stories, mishaps and some gorgeous pictures!
Here are some entertaining pictures of our packing adventures:
So you may or may not know, but I have a lifesize King Penguin plush that Kevin gave to me as a Christmas present long before we were dating. It’s my favorite. Anyways, during the walk through, the house stager specifically called it out and said it could not be in the living room and had to be packed away. And then it was even written specifically in the notes! I was first insulted that they didn’t like my penguin, but more insulted that they honestly thought I wasn’t smart enough to know that the giant penguin toy shouldn’t be in the listing pictures. So in response? I put a rubber duck in the bathroom and he was in the pictures!
Now, you may or may not know, but Kevin is a lego builder and collector. Over the last couple of years, we have accumulated a collection of massively large lego sets, and it was a bit of a conundrum when trying to decide how to pack them. I did a bunch of research, and that revealed that we should saran wrap the chunks and place them in a tub for safe keeping…
