The challenge with this move was definitely the categorizing of our things. Our apartment in San Francisco was only 827 square feet, surely not large enough to have acquired an overwhelming amount of paraphernalia. While I don't think anyone finds moving easy or enjoyable, it's much smoother to be able to tell movers to pack everything and take it form Point A to Point B... all of it... one place.
Our challenge was a bit more complicated. We had the stuff that we wanted to have immediately which went in "sizable" checked bags. Mostly, Dan's work clothes, a transformer to change voltage, clothes for me, bathroom products, the items we needed until the last possible moment, etc. (See photo below for definition of sizable and thank goodness we are able to expense our baggage fees.)
After we outlined the "must-have-right-away's" we moved on to classifying the rest of our items. They had to go into one of the three remaining categories:
- Air Freight (expected arrival 2-4 weeks, not including customs clearance)
- Overseas Freight (expected arrival 7-11 weeks, not including customs clearance)
- Storage in San Francisco (see you in two years)
We decided that the easiest way to accomplish this was to assign each category an area of our apartment and start moving the applicable personal effects to the correct area. This task, while daunting and quite time consuming, actually helped the movers immensely.
Eventually, everything was packed and our little downtown apartment was sad and empty. We only had one small miscommunication with the movers. There was one piece of luggage intended to be checked baggage that was not appropriately located and it was taken as Overseas Freight... so we'll be getting that one a little later than we intended. Oh well. Better late than never.
We will keep you posted as the goodies arrive and hope to have an apartment that feels like our home again by Turkey Time. Off to board our connection to Accra!
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