When I moved, I didnt bring any furniture, but I had lots of breakables and toys and other things. I started bringing things over when I was visiting my other half, months before the actual move. I bought 3 pieces of luggage, two big duffel bags and one huge bag that I filled up several times with clothes. The big tote bag I would fill up bring over and bring back to America, empty. In the end, I shipped one box of clothes and stuffed animals via the post office economy/surface mail, $76, took 6 weeks to arrive. We sent people that had come to America for our wedding that were going back to the UK with an extra bag each, about 4 or 5 in total and when we personally came over we had two checked bags each plus one box of breakables that we checked in and paid for as extra baggage, $85 with Virgin Atlantic. Plus we had loads of carry on bags, dont ask me how we got away with that. Everything was jam packed, could not fit another thing in the bags but it was the cheap way, in the end.
When we arrived back here, my mother in law picked us up from the airport and my husband and I had to take the train home as the car was too full of bags.
I never want to move again! I ended up getting rid of a lot of clothes and I have stopped being such a hoarder of junk
