Moving to Singapore.. for real!

I don't think I'll be able to fully comprehend what it'll feel like to really move, until we have our things with us. We don't have a lot, but it's just those bits and bobs you have collected during the years, which are so important and fully makes you feel at home. 

Our main task going back was to sort out everything we had packed and stored, since we more or less had to smack everything into boxes over a weekend leaving Sweden for Japan in 2009. On top of that we only left with a suitcase each, mainly since we were both quite unsure if would actually be staying full time. In addition, when you go somewhere else, I think parts of the exciting new adventure is having new stuff around you. Besides, you never know what you need and what's useful directly and considering we basically had to leave Japan for Singapore in a few months' time, I think it was actually good that we had a while to decide what we need. I did a huge run through before we packed everything down in 2009 and threw/gave away around 10 large sacks of stuff. Hence I expected most of the things that we had stored until now to be stuff that we would both need and want. This was kind of true, but OMG, did we have a lot of unnecessary things! I can't remember how many boxes there was in total, but I do know that we went through all of them and threw away a whole car trunk and back seat + a full size trailer in the end. On top of that, a certain young sister in law who just moved in to her first apartment of her own, was equipped with a full china set, everything possible you can think of for the kitchen and heaps of towels, sheets etc etc.

Besides the 18 boxes, a BBQ, home entertainment system and sewing machine amongst others, the final task was to wrap some of our beloved paintings. I'm so looking forward getting it all here!

I was in charge of making packing lists and organizing our things in reasonable portions and sizes, while Moller senior and junior amongst others did an outstanding job building the box fitting it all.

It was a strange feeling packing it all (we decided to leave furniture, since we currently have what we need) into a huge box and sealing it. In one way it was a relief to be done with it, but at the same time there were a lot of philosophical questions like: 'is this all we own and have accumulated over 11 years?' and 'is it worth it?'. What surprised me even more was that the things that I valued absolutely most, were the boxes with my personal items, like old pictures or certain toys I remember very well from my childhood. Therefore it felt very weird when we had to go through their actual monetary value, which was basically nothing for the latter, for the insurance.

The next day a quiet, but rather intrigued man came to pick up our things. Over the course of 10 mins (after this he was gone), he said: 'Hi, nice box'..

..'push it on that side son'..

..'OK,'

..'miss, can you put that under the lift?'.

The very short meeting was finished with 'Good day' and he just vanished without a trace. Our conversation thereafter went: 'Did you get any paper work at all?' 
'Nope'
'Me neither' 
'Brilliant' 
I really hope our things reach Singapore..