Coping With an International Move With Your Family and Car

By L.Buckley in Family on April 1st, 2008

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by L.Buckley

The movers who brought my stuff to NYC were obliged not just to carry all the stuff into the apartment but to build up all the furniture etc. (Full service that is.) However, they were only two, had come late, and I didn’t trust them anyway to treat my precious stuff well. There is a difference between being the owner of something and being a mover who handles stuff that is insured against breaking.

I know that between the guilt of relocating and uprooting your family to a whole new way of life added to the anxiety of wondering if all of our personal possessions would arrive at their new location seemed a lot to bear. Not taking the time to plan properly could cause you more unnecessary stress and anxiety.

Check with the Better Business Bureau to see what kind of problems customers may have encountered and how well did the moving company work to resolve the issue. You can almost tell immediately how well the person on the other end of the line is trying to help you. They answer all your questions and even offer more information.

Try making a game out of it. Have your family make and write post cards. Decorate them to what they know their friends would like and mail them. This will give your kids something to look forward to and help to keep connected to their friends and family. In retrospect, I don’t know whether I saved a lot of money by not using a full-service provider. Total cost to me was about USD 5900, where the full-service provider who had originally shipped my stuff to the U.S. had quoted me USD 8100. So this sounds good, but it was quite messy and does not account for my own work.

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