We sent the drill, hammer, measuring tape, just a few essentials to get us through until the large shipment arrives. Tools, to include scissors, as I’ve found out the hard way many times. We sent ahead a new bag of food for him, some of his supplies, and well as the baby gate we use when we need to keep him in the laundry room.Ħ. Also sent snow boots, snow pants, hats, mittens, and such items. We kept some to wear/carry in our luggage.
We sent ahead some of our cold weather clothing since it’s still fairly warm here in AL. We also send towels, gonna want to take showers right away! 🙂 Also it will be cold when we get to Germany so I sent extra blankets as well. No need to have bedding for our Queen sized bed that won’t be there yet.
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I know we’ll have a full sized bed for us & twins for the kids so that’s the sizes I sent ahead. Make sure you know what size the TMO furniture will be. New Crockpot because we kept the old one here (I’ve had it for 16 years!) to use in TLF and then we’ll donate it, kitchen knives (that was a bit tricky to use tiny knives the last few days in the house), nice pots & pans (we keep the older ones to use until we sent with HHGs), utensils, silverware, plates/bowls, can opener, microwave, and stuff to make holiday desserts & cookies, and this was only because we are PCSing smack dab during Thanksgiving, 2 of our kids birthdays, AND Christmas! It’ll be nice to get our printer back but I’m really enjoying our new Macbook! It’s all about choices and personal preference, we’ve found it’s much easier going without stuff when you have friends around (like here in Alabama) than trying to do it overseas when you don’t know anyone.įor us it’s our iMac desktop computer, printer & printer paper. Although we did choose to stay in TLF for 2.5 weeks on this end so that we could send all our stuff to Germany 2.5 weeks before flying out.
We’ve learned from doing this a few times you can ship your Express Shipment right before moving out and it’ll still normally get there before you get a house. I could see this being a bigger issue if you were shipping things 30 days or so before leaving your home.
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Yes, it was a bummer to realize we had not microwave to make popcorn and that the manual can opener didn’t want to work, but we survived. The hardest part is deciding what you can do without HERE so you can have when you get THERE! Yes, that means we were here without some handy things here (see list below) but since our HHG were going a few days later and we were heading to TLF (Temporary Living Facility, i.e. What goes in your Express Shipment? This is not our first PSC so it was much easier to deicide what needed to go. Unaccompanied baggage packed and waiting to be loaded into crates on the truck. Having our Express Shipment there means we can have it delivered right away and have access to the stuff we chose to ship over quickly. Why does it matter how long it takes to arrive? Well for example if we arrive in Germany and get a house within 1-2 weeks (first week of Dec, let’s say for this example) we will get loaner furniture and some loaner silverware/dishes but that’s about it. 8th and it’s due to arrive at the end of December. 1st and it’s due to arrive in Germany Dec. Yes, everything we own that does not travel with us in our luggage or the Express shipment takes the slow boat to Germany!Īnother important thing about the Express Shipment is that it arrives MUCH faster than the rest of the HHG’s on the boat, usually within 30-45 days after shipping. The reason the weight is so small for the Express Shipment is because it’s sent via air which is much more expensive then when they send the rest by boat. So for example, our Household Goods (HHG) weight allowance is 14,000 lbs, we were able to send up to 1600 lbs via the Express Shipment. What is Unaccompanied Baggage/ an Express Shipment? This fact sheet from the Ramstein site has some great info about it! Basically it is a percent of your household weight allowance that your allowed to take with you overseas that you can send ahead via air. We have always chosen to use this option! When you are PCSing to and from an Overseas location you have the option of sending Unaccompanied Baggage aka an Express Shipment.
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