DH is looking at a job in Malawi. In the info it says that they provide shipping for 300kg for DH, 100kg for a spouse and 50kg per DC. They provide housing which includes basic furniture, cooker, fridge/freezer. It says you should consider taking a washing machine, although a maid will do the laundry, and all electrical items you would want ie microwave, coffee maker, TV, DVD player, computer. Then add on bedding, crockery, bikes, toys, towels, toiletries, clothes. Is 500kg is reasonable amount and how do you know when you've reached your weight limit?
Also, and this is a separate question in case you think I might get our car in too , would you pay £1,000 to take your own car over? We've had our family car from new but it has a high mileage for the year (08) and various bumps and scrapes as we'd never intended to sell it so never paid to fix them. So we think it's worth more to us than we'd get for it if we sold it IYSWIM. This would be instead of selling it and buying one over there. We'd be going for 2 years.
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Is 500kg a good shipping allowance and would you ship your car over?
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chicaguapa · 07/02/2013 20:15
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