Living in Cebu

In early 2006 I will be moving to Cebu, Philippines with the entire family.

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Getting rid of Junk

In my last post I talked about packing for the Philippines. Part of the packing process is sorting your things and disposing of stuff you will neither ship nor store.

It is amazing how much junk most people collect over the years. Over the past few years we have had a number of big cleanups. The last was early this year when I really got serious. Despite this I still see a lot of stuff around that needs to go.

Regardless of if you are going to pack up your worldly possessions into a container and ship it to the Philippines it is still advisable to start cleaning out your junk as soon as possible. I am already due for another sweep and each time the place becomes that more manageable. By the time we move it will be simple to decide what we store and what we dispose of.

I had for example the part to build half a dozen computer system around the Pentium 3 vintage. My old computer that simply stopped working and I never got around to fixing it has sat in the garage for over a year. Given how cheap the things are these days and how quickly they get out of date it was time to simply dump it.

In fact I put it out on the front strip for hard collection and later spoke to a friend that said he was interested. I quickly got it back off the street not wanting him to know that I was treating it as rubbish. I also got rid of computer monitors. So for me a good example was old computer parts. For you it may be car parts or some other hobby or project that it is unlikely you will ever get back to.

One of the positive things about setting up in the Philippines from scratch is having a clean slate. As with most parents it is a constant struggle to get the kids to keep their room tidy and they also have the habit of accumulating junk. They too will be starting with a clean slate. Don’t know how long it will last.

I can see that we will have to pack and store a lot of Kitchen stuff. The wife is very fond of cooking and has accumulated more that the average amount of kitchenware. Tonight she showed me a German Fry Pan that she paid $350 for a couple of years back. I consider that way too much money to pay for a fry pan but that is a different matter.

While this fry pan could easily be shipped over to the Philippines it is a good example of the type of item I would not recommend bringing over. A quality replacement can be purchased at a fraction of the cost without the need to worry about shipping and potential loss. It is better left and stored at home.

Posted: Wednesday 1st June 2005, 8:42 AM