Originally posted by longlegsinlapaz
| Quote: | Originally posted by dtbushpilot
Most people here are just trying to help, I'd hate to see some of the more "unsavory" Nomads chime in with a bunch of negative rhetoric....hopefully
they won't.
We live down in Buena Vista part time. We always have a car load of stuff with us on our way down. We put the cases of wine and boxes of things for
the house on the bottom and our traveling stuff on top. We are moving our stuff down a few boxes at a time, no problem.
We often have other places that we want to go on the way down and don't want to be loaded down with a bunch of stuff too so I feel your pain, we
usually travel with a dog and 2 cats just to make it more challenging.
I recommend that you take the things that are the most important to you on this trip and save the rest for the next trip or two...or three....etc.
Another thing to consider is how much of that stuff do you really need? How much of it is everyday stuff that you could replace in MX and maybe help
the local economy?
The only reason I bring this up is that this is exactly what we are going through now. We have a mountain of boxes to move from our home in New Mexico
to MX and after a year we don't even remember what we packed away....what we couldn't live without. I went through the boxes a couple of weeks ago and
found several boxes worth of stuff that was pretty stupid to be importing and moving 2000 miles, things that could be replaced for a few bucks in
MX.....time for a garage sale and a run to Goodwill.
My recommendation is to look your stuff over again, get rid of the plastic hangers and paper plates (I really did have that stuff packed in boxes) and
take what you really need a little at a time....and don't let anybody keep you from posting on Nomads....the real Nomads are glad you are here......dt
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dt, your post really surprised me....since when did Hook get classified as an "unsavory"
Nomad and/or anything less than a "real" Nomad? 
There are a great number of Nomads who choose to respect the laws of our adopted country....the country a great number of us call home, yet we still
recognize we're here as guests. I'm one of those whose moral compass points the same direction as Hook's does. dt, I agree with your suggestions to
Indy to lighten his load, but I don't feel it's right nor fair to encourage people who are unfamiliar with Customs & Immigration rules to attempt
to flaunt or circumvent the laws of our host country.
Indy, for what it's worth, karenintx has provided good & factual information....& best of all, it's legal! No worries about what it might
cost you when you get a red light & they empty your vehicle out looking for undeclared items. If you had an FM3 or FM2, you'd get a one-time
tax-free importation of household & personal items. Entering on an FMM, legally you're required to take everything you brought in with you out
when you leave. Also, in my experience, you'll have greater success going with an importer than attempting to ship personal items via DHL.
dt, it's because of crap like your throwing Hook (yeah, he lives on the mainland, but so what? He's earned my respect through his posts for many
years) under the bus that I won't be posting here in the foreseeable future....the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. IMO, your comments
were out of line & you owe Hook an apology.
Kudos to Indy for finally stating that you want to import your possessions legally!
Indy, I apologize for a semi-hijack unrelated to this particular thread, and certainly another trigger for my future absence is I don't want to be a
part of a group where intelligent & extremely knowledgeable, civil & respectful posters like oldlady are banned while rude, crude instigators
like Goat & Joe are allowed to remain & continue to make personal attacks & spew hatred & sewage. |
