- a saki set (if you drink wine it’s from cordial glasses. Those little saki cups remain virginal)
- stapler – staples – glue – pens – sticky tape – stickers – markers – scissors – pencils (but the pencil sharpener has been useful) (and you love stationery so don’t care)
- a smooth, egg-like stone you found on an island beach holiday when you were a child
- a piece of fake fruit (I still am not sure why I have a bright orange, plastic mandarin)
- a princess di teatowel (I love it so I don’t use it. It sits in the dark of a cupboard)
- mugs
- good books (you have to either leave them when you leave again, or pay for the heavy buggers to leave with you)
- Berocca (never used it before, and still don’t)
- a shoot-out, pop-up umbrella (all the umbrellas here are golf-sized, and with reason: the down-pours are massive and little granny-umbrellas are pathetic)
- picture-hanging hooks
- so many clothes (the second-hand stores here are huge, insanely cheap and fun – whole eras of fashion history before your very eyes! Also, you don’t know what’s hot and what’s not until you have lived in your new home for a while; bring some basics and buy your real wardrobe here. And then buy another one because it’s all so cheap it’ll never be this good again)
Things surprisingly useful
- sewing kit from nana (packed out of politeness, but it has been used many times)
- bottle-opener (the kind with arms)
- sari fabric from india (hides ugly tables and plain walls)
- blu tak (useful for a thousand things)
Essentials that keep your wheels running smoothly
- the laptop
- the camera
- the books (read or unread, left or lugged again)
- the little swiss army knife keyring (only had the basics but used weekly. Much missed since swiped by Australian airport security)
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