Moving with IntlMOVE – Minimize before your Move

Trust IntlMOVE for your international move.
IntlMOVE can help you pack, ship and deliver your household goods and personal effects when you are ready to move overseas.
IntlMOVE has a strong history or reliability and dependability, so you can trust IntlMOVE with your personal belongings.
When you choose IntlMOVE to ship your household goods and personal effects, you will work directly with an experienced IntlMOVE move consultant.
Your move consultant from IntlMOVE will help you determine what you need in order to make your international move successful and as stress free as possible.

International moves are a great way to minimize.
When you ship your household goods and personal effects overseas, you will want make the best use of the container space.
If you ship only the items you will need in your new home, you will save a lot of money and have a great feeling of letting go of unwanted items.
If you have not used an item in a year, chances are you will not need to use it in the future.
IntlMOVE has put together some tips for minimizing your things, so you can maximize your international moving experience.

Clothes
Everyone is guilty of holding onto clothes that you fit into during your skinnier days.
If you have been holding onto the clothes for over 12 months, you are likely not going to wear them again.
You can also get rid of clothes that have gone out of style.
If you are moving somewhere with much warmer climates, you might not need your bulky sweaters or winter coasts.
Only keep clothes that are appropriate for your new country’s climate.
If you have small children, get rid of clothes that they no wear.
Also, don’t ship clothes that your children will outgrow in a short time period.
Shipping your household goods and personal effects overseas can take weeks or months, so the clothes you ship might not fit your children by the time your shipment arrives in your new country.

Furniture
If your new house is going to be smaller, you will need to get rid of some furniture so it will all fit in your new place of residence.
If you need new furniture to fill up more space in your new home overseas, you might want to wait to purchase new furniture to avoid the cost of shipping the items.
Whether you are renting a furnished or unfurnished apartment, find out what appliances and furniture comes with your new home.
This will help you determine what you need to ship overseas.

Electronics and Appliances
Your appliances and larger electronics might not work in your new home in your new country, so there is no point in shipping them overseas.
Find out what you will need to convert the electricity to determine whether or not the extra cost is worth the shipment of electronics and appliances.
You will probably not want to ship televisions, washer, dryers, refrigerators or other large items.
If you are moving to an apartment from a house, you will no longer need your lawnmower.

Basement, Garage and Attic
Clean out your basement, garage and attic.
Open up all the boxes that have been sitting there for years to determine whether or not you need any of the items in these unexplored areas of your house.
You will probably find that there are a lot of items that you forgot you had that you can easily get rid of to minimize your possessions.

When you have gathered everything you no longer need, there are several things you can do to get rid of everything.
If you have big furniture pieces you need to sell, you can put them on websites like craigslist.
You will have some items that are valuable that you can either list on auction-based websites like ebay, or websites where people come to your house to pick up the item like craigslist.
Yard sales are another way to get rid of the items you no longer need.
Friends and family might have uses for the items you no longer need, so that is another option to help minimize.
You will probably still have some unwanted items after selling your stuff and trying to give it away to friends and family, so donate the rest of these items to a charity.
Someone will have a use for the items you no longer need.