What didn't you bring here that you wish you had...?

[Bad_azz]

I gave my telescope away, I wish I had packed it.
Same with my binoculars- ancient things & huge but so, so powerful.
I know I can buy them here, but they are on that wish list that never gets round to being bought as the cash gets drained in other directions... sigh.

 

[Nasigan]

A big stock of GOOD quality earplugs specially for during the Ramadan month when the noisy masjid getting out of control

 

[Puspawarna]

We were lucky to move with good shipping allowances, so we were able to bring most everything with us. Having said that, I am always amazed and a little ashamed at how my avarice sets in every time I go back to the US. I'm in America now, and in my closet there is a steadily growing pile of things I bought to bring back with me, including:

- Pet supplies
- Jiffy pots (peat pots for planting seeds)
- Hair doo-dads
- Extra pairs of running shoes
- Some adorable melamine plates
- Some health supplements

Etc.

What bothers me is that, because I have access to them, I feel I "need" these things ... yet if I had not gone to the US where I could easily acquire them, I would have continued to live happily in Indonesia without even thinking about them.

 

[Bad_azz]

We were lucky to move with good shipping allowances, so we were able to bring most everything with us. Having said that, I am always amazed and a little ashamed at how my avarice sets in every time I go back to the US. I'm in America now, and in my closet there is a steadily growing pile of things I bought to bring back with me, including:

- Pet supplies
- Jiffy pots (peat pots for planting seeds)
- Hair doo-dads
- Extra pairs of running shoes
- Some adorable melamine plates
- Some health supplements

Etc.

What bothers me is that, because I have access to them, I feel I "need" these things ... yet if I had not gone to the US where I could easily acquire them, I would have continued to live happily in Indonesia without even thinking about them.

I'm recycling the bags my coffee comes in as seed planters. - well, I am collecting the bags- haven't got round to poking holes in the bottom yet & filling with earth... but it is on the to-do list
I buy pet things and hair things too- mad innit?

 

[HappyMan]

Jim Beam, Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. I wish I could bring over a suitcase of it. Too damned expensive to buy here, and I could do with a nice glass every night before bed.

 

[fastpitch17]

We didn't have as an option a moving allowance due to retiring so everything came in 5 suitcases loaded to tge max weight and carryon bags. So much that was left behind.

I know what you mean Happyman, some Old Grandad and Wild Turkey would be nice. Whenever anyone is moving here and ask for advise about what to bring, if they have a moving allowance, suggest a wine and/or beer making kits allong with the needed accessories. If they don't need it, I imagine there would be a quick buyer for them at a proffit.

 

[waarmstrong]

We are back and forth enough that there is little pining for Western goodies, although I would like a V8 engine, if I could figure out how to get it in a suitcase and passed customs.

 

[Scooterindo]

My show winning Lambretta whilst they are available here the prices are ridiculous (250 juta plus)

 

[Jim69]

I would bring my Mum and Dad

 

[tihzho]

My sanity

 

[Bad_azz]

I would bring my Mum and Dad

My sanity

hahaha yes! My mum & dad, would love to have them here- or even a visit.

my sanity- hmmm not sure I had that back in the UK lol

 

[fastpitch17]

My sanity

Perhaps it was the lack of that brought some here to begin with.

 

[Davita]

When I first came to Bali on a holiday...circa 1975....I wish I'd brought my meagre savings. I could have leased most of the land that is now called Kuta/Legian/Seminyak.

 

[Banana72]

My wine collection...although I managed to drink up most of it and left about 10 bottles that I ended up bringing to Indonesia..two bottles at a time lol.

Interestingly after living here for a few years, I don't see too many things that I would bring that I can't get here (or even going to Singapore). Okay, maybe clean air is one.

 

[tihzho]

Perhaps it was the lack of that brought some here to begin with.

Looking back I'd agree with you!

 

[rugby]

Horseradish root and some sort of mechanism to get cold water oysters shipped fresh by the tens-of-dozens for my personal consumption from the west coast of Canada. Oh yeah, and a correctly made set of cast iron cookware, a barrel of proper Clorox bleach, my sanity and buzzy wristbands for all interfaced to activate when anyone in the house leaves a door open for more than 7 seconds. I am heading back to Vancouver for a few weeks in a week - my future posts from that time on will be of a "toned-down" variety. For now, I wish that the diligent kid on the 155dB microphone would finish off this part of his puberty like Greg Brady did on that singing episode.

 

[waarmstrong]

I seem to recall seeing Clorox and other chlorine laced powdered cleansers at Ace. Relatively expensive, though.

 

[Bad_azz]

Horseradish root and some sort of mechanism to get cold water oysters shipped fresh by the tens-of-dozens for my personal consumption from the west coast of Canada. Oh yeah, and a correctly made set of cast iron cookware, a barrel of proper Clorox bleach, my sanity and buzzy wristbands for all interfaced to activate when anyone in the house leaves a door open for more than 7 seconds. I am heading back to Vancouver for a few weeks in a week - my future posts from that time on will be of a "toned-down" variety.

Bayclin has sodium hypochlorite in it, I assume that is what you are after- look in the laundry aisles of the supermarkets/mini markets. Cheap enough.

 

[rugby]

Thanks folks - I found "Outdoor Clorox" with Sodium Hypoclorite + Sodium Hydroxide (Lye/Caustic Soda) at Pong's for 80,000 Rp / Gallon a while back. Half the price of N. American - suppose it was sitting too long (original price was 350,000). My wish was to have a barrel - the pembantu works fine with Bayclin (not all pembantus are comfortable with it) and bless her hard working (18 years in Saudi Arabia before retiring here) heart. When it involves the kitchen and kids' rooms the responsibility for the deep clean is in my hands only: "Now I have become Death - the destroyer of Salmonella and Mold".

 

[Puspawarna]

hahaha yes! My mum & dad, would love to have them here- or even a visit.

My parents have both passed away, but back when I was young we did not get along particularly well. When they were living in the Northeast United States and I was in Jakarta, sometimes people would ask me why I moved to Indonesia. My answer (only half joking) was, "Because it is as far away as I can get from my parents and still be warm."