12 large toothpastes for 50 cents each
By cynthiann
@cynthiann (18612)
Jamaica
April 20, 2009 12:56pm CST
My daughter has to leave the USA by June 30th. My friends know the details. She is shipping home her bed linen, drapes, towels etc and small appliances as well as her fridge/freezer and stove.
She has accepted the fact better than her colleagues, parents and children and is now starting to pack and called me to say that she bought 12 boxes of toothpaste at fifty cents each. She is also buying lotions and body creams to slip into the barrels and asked me what else I needed. I asked her to ship some gallons of olive oil but then my mind went blank.
If you were leaving your home to work abroad, what is it that you would ship out - something that you could not live without?
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
20 Apr 09
Maybe she was hoping that you could use it. And if the toothpaste is more expensive where you live and cheaper at the States, as well as the olive oil, why quibble? What I am wondering is that most countries have an equivalent to the value added tax, but the United States does not. I was wondering how much it would cost her in duty, custom fees, and taxes.
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@cynthiann (18612)
• Jamaica
20 Apr 09
Sorry for the spelling mistakes. The fingers are not flexible and I have lost spell check!
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
20 Apr 09
i wouldn't know where to even start. bless her heart, it's got to be mind boggling to get it all together.
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
22 Apr 09
gosh I don't know, maybe my favourite chocolate bar, it also depends on where I move and if they have that product where I am going
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@cynthiann (18612)
• Jamaica
22 Apr 09
I adore chocolate so I am not going to ask her to bring that - I so need to lose weight. I will ask her to look out for sales on detergents - any kind will do alhtough I porefer the liquid ones. That is so expensive out here. Thanks dear friend, I hope that you are keeping o.k.
@checapricorn (16060)
• United States
20 Apr 09
Hi cyn,
I will ship my books...That is what I fail to do when I left Philippines last year...ANyway,Good luck to your daughter and I hope she will enjoy and love the new place as well as her job....
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@cynthiann (18612)
• Jamaica
20 Apr 09
Well, she hasn't got a job yet but we ar epraying that there will be an opening for her. My books are so important to me. They would be top on my list.
@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
23 Apr 09
I believe I remember reading a bit about this, and how she was layed off? I think I would have to say that I would ship something I enjoyed to use in the USA but couldn't find in the country I was going to. I can't say what that would be, but I hope that that atleast helps. Of course I hope she doesn't spend too much over here and then have little or nothing when she gets to Jamaica, is it?
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@cynthiann (18612)
• Jamaica
24 Apr 09
Her green card did not come through as there was an illegal imigrant with the same name as hers last year. She applied this year and was told that her County is not employing US citizens and so, much to the horror of her colleagues and students, she has to leave the USA by the end of June.
We are told that we will have a twenty percent increase in our cost of living this year and she just wants to help me. She can easily get employment out here and may teach at the a university but she had bought a house in NC and lived there for 4 yerars as part of the community. It was her some so the news is devastating.
lIFE GOES ON. I have also thought of liquid detergent and canned food eg tuna. There will be a food shortage later this year in the Island. Many blessings dear friend
@cynthiann (18612)
• Jamaica
20 Apr 09
anniefrannie just reminded me of shampoos. I like the John Frieda (?) one for blondes so I will ask her to look out for it on special. coffee beans are important if you want a cup of really good coffee.
@cynthiann (18612)
• Jamaica
20 Apr 09
Thinga are very expensive out here so bringing out olive oil etc will be a great help to me. Oh, she also bought two dozen deodorants! Yes, it is awful but she is resiliant. she has applied to teach at a University out here so we will see. She also has a plan of opening her own school but she would need money to do that. I htink that she would prefer to teach in athe classroom rather than teach teachers but she has to get a job! It would take a miracle for her to stay. Did you have a lovely Birthday? Did I get the date right? Blessings
@cynthiann (18612)
• Jamaica
20 Apr 09
It's good that she sees her Dad. I sent you a pm wishing you a Happy Birthday yesterday but I probably deleted it or something. so belated Happy Birthday wishes to you!
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
20 Apr 09
I probably wouldn't think about that sort of stuff, because I'd automatically assume that anyplace I could go would still have the same things available to be at home. There are just certain local foods and things I'd eventually miss. My mom used to ship her ex-husband some local foods years ago. She'd send a dry shipment every few months of canned goods and potato chips and such. Then a couple times a year she'd send cold or frozen foods on dry ice.
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@cynthiann (18612)
• Jamaica
20 Apr 09
We do miss the food that we are used to. My DIL broke all rules and smuggled in a pack of English Breakfast sausages. The brand that I cannot get out here and they tasted so good.
Because of the cost of importation goods from the USA are horribly expensive. Thanks for responding
@anniefannie (1737)
• United States
20 Apr 09
I could not live without my bath soap, shampoo,my curling iron and my make up,hairspray.She found agood bargain on the toothpaste.have agood day
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@cynthiann (18612)
• Jamaica
20 Apr 09
shampoos are important to me too. she found a very good bargain on the toothaste. enough to last me for a year!
