A new reader, AJ, commented on an earlier post:
That’s the one thing I would miss about the US. Stuff. Whatever you need, you can usually find it cheap on Craigslist or a yard sale or something. I needed a cement mixer a few years ago, found a really nice one on CL that had been tipped over onto it’s motor, which ruined the motor. Bought it for $50, found a motor in a thrift store for $10. Put it together and still use it. I guess there are trade-offs for everything.
We had lots of stuff. Prior to leaving for Mexico, after several garage sales, we still arrived at in-laws with this (plus a laden minivan and laden pickup truck that pulled the trailer):
We moved from the USA to Mexico in a pickup truck. A few years later, what we shipped from Mexico to Uruguay fit on one pallet (we also brought lots of luggage).
There are advantages to shipping a container of household goods from the United States — you can bring additional quality furniture scoured from Craigslist or estate sales. But every American’s “household goods” container I’ve seen looks like the photo above. Not a curated collection of carefully-chosen objects — just stuff.
Most of which they weren’t using there, and won’t be using here.
And obtw we do have Mercado Libre. 😉
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