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Wow, this was the hardest thing.. one month before I left I realised that I needed a plan. I wrote down a plan on how I could decide what to bring and what I should leave behind.\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

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I started with putting all my clothes, shoes, bags and accessories out on the floor. (It was a lot). Then I started trying all my clothes on adding and matching shoes and accessories. While doing this I had a pile for NO, one for Maybe and one for YES. After trying everything on my pile for YES was still to big to even fit in my suitcase.<\/p>\n

At this stage I had to be smart, would I need warm clothes (Probably not to many since Australia is much warmer). I did some research and realised that the weather on the Sunshine Coast doesn’t go under 7 degrees at night. This made it a lot easier, however I was gonna study fitness, so I needed fitness clothes for at least 4 days\/ week. I quickly picked out my 4 favourite fitness outfits and packed them in my suitcase.<\/p>\n

After this I had to pic casual outfits, so i though I will only need 4 casual outfits, said and done I picked my favourite outfits and put them in my suitcase. Then I picked another two outfits that was a bit more elegant.<\/p>\n

Done, my bag was packed…. But now what!!
\nThere was so many clothes left and I didn’t have a clue what to do, should I keep them or should I get rid of them. I knew there and then that I wouldn’t return back hime anytime soon. I decided to have a garage sale with everything I owned.\u00a0I also had lots of home decor that I decided to sell.<\/p>\n

I made another 6800\u00a0Swedish crowns = Approx 1000 AUD. I decided to do something good for the rest of the things that no-one wanted to buy, so I drove down to a place called “homeless home” and donated the rest of my things to them.<\/p>\n

I know that they got used well, because they sent me pictures whenever they decided to give away or use any of the items that i donated.<\/p>\n

My bag was packed and everything i owned was gone, all I had to do now was to wait for the day to come. The day that I started my new life. When I got on the plane on the 25th June 2013 I was nervous, anxious but also excited. I wouldn’t change if for anything, but I do miss things back home now and then.<\/p>\n

I know that a lot of people find it hard to even pack a suitcase for a week away, imagine all the people that decides to never come back and how hard it is to pack your whole life into one title suitcase<\/p>\n

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Have you ever done a major move, If so where and why? Share it with me, I’d love to find out more.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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XOXO<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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