Daughter going to Sydney for a Year what clothing does she need

lady1964

Candles_by_Lisa wrote: »

Thanks for your reply it is really helpful. She is going with her cousin. The first night they arrive they are booked into a hotel near the airport. After that they are booked into a hostel for 20 nights in the hope that they can find work and accommodation. I think they are looking to rent a flat as they are going to be staying in Sydney and not backpacking.

Have they got copies of their CV's to take with them? My daughter contacted recruitment agencies before she got to Sydney , if your daughter hasn't already done this, it would be a good idea.

Also, renting in Sydney is expensive, my daughter house shared for the first year she was there (she went alone but had several friends she stayed with for her first month or so). She moved into a house share for the rest of her time there. She found her house share on an Aus website, sorry I can't remember what it's called, google something like 'house share Sydney' for help. Tell your daughter to be prepared to share with 4 or 5 others!

I hope your daughter has an amazing time, its a fantastic place, brilliant places to see. She should get out to the Blue Mountains for at least a day, it's about 2 hours by train, not expensive either, and it's just stunning. It is quite cheap to fly to other cities, she can use the budget airlines and stay in hostels, my daughter went to Cairns for a few days very cheaply but I guess your daughter will need to find work first.

Just to add, socially Sydney is quite casually dressed, so a few pairs of flip flops, a couple of pairs of nice sandals and a pair or two of trainers though I suggest she wears a pair for travelling and they're expensive to buy (when we visited we took a new pair of trainers for my daughter) would be ideal. A couple of nice dresses, perhaps linen or lightweight cotton ones plus a few other more smart things. She may have to buy work clothes when she's there as that's harder to plan in advance as she'll be finding work when she gets there.

Please feel free to PM me if there's anything else you'd like to know,

lady1964

littlereddevil wrote: »

If there is anything she can't get there you can post it over to her.
She can also order online from various stores in UK and have stuff delivered in Australia.

Excellent suggestion and one I didn't think about, I think Asos deliver there but not 100% certain.

OP, if you do post anything you'll need to complete a form for customs. Take the tags off and put the item as second hand clothing and put the value under £25 so she doesn't have to pay taxes on it.

Candles_by_Lisa

lady1964 wrote: »

Have they got copies of their CV's to take with them? My daughter contacted recruitment agencies before she got to Sydney , if your daughter hasn't already done this, it would be a good idea.

Also, renting in Sydney is expensive, my daughter house shared for the first year she was there (she went alone but had several friends she stayed with for her first month or so). She moved into a house share for the rest of her time there. She found her house share on an Aus website, sorry I can't remember what it's called, google something like 'house share Sydney' for help. Tell your daughter to be prepared to share with 4 or 5 others!

I hope your daughter has an amazing time, its a fantastic place, brilliant places to see. She should get out to the Blue Mountains for at least a day, it's about 2 hours by train, not expensive either, and it's just stunning. It is quite cheap to fly to other cities, she can use the budget airlines and stay in hostels, my daughter went to Cairns for a few days very cheaply but I guess your daughter will need to find work first.

Just to add, socially Sydney is quite casually dressed, so a few pairs of flip flops, a couple of pairs of nice sandals and a pair or two of trainers though I suggest she wears a pair for travelling and they're expensive to buy (when we visited we took a new pair of trainers for my daughter) would be ideal. A couple of nice dresses, perhaps linen or lightweight cotton ones plus a few other more smart things. She may have to buy work clothes when she's there as that's harder to plan in advance as she'll be finding work when she gets there.

Please feel free to PM me if there's anything else you'd like to know,

Thank you so much for your reply. Yes she has CV's printed off (that's something I didn't think of.

I think they were thinking of house sharing too but it's hard trying to arrange that over here as they don't know where they are going to work, how far away the room would be etc etc etc.

I think she has been in touch with agencies but I will remind her. She has pretty much dealt with everything as she will need to do that when she is over there lol.

So nervous I will miss her terribly as she's the baby of the family. Will be hard coping with the empty nest. It's just for a year just now but we have said if she wants to stay don't think about it it's her life not ours.

Thanks again for everything.

movinghelp

I'm moving to Melbourne next week for work (probably 2 years) and am a few years older than your DD but thought I may be able to help.

The climate in Melbourne is colder than Sydney so I am taking a few more coats/jackets than she'll need but as these are the most expensive items to buy I think it makes sense. Ditto for shoes especially as someone has already mentioned trainers and in my case ankle boots.

Clothes are expensive to buy in Aus so you're right to advise her to take as much as she can before. Don't waste space with lots of cheap vests etc though, tell her to go for her quality pieces here especially dresses she can wear casually and for work.

I've packed and managed to fit 70 items of clothing into a 20kg suitcase mainly because I used Kon Marie's method of folding vertically. Get her to Google it. It makes a MASSIVE difference.

The other benefit of packing to move rather than for a holiday is you don't really need to bother with toiletries, shampoo etc will be easy and cheap to buy there but get her to take her favourite make up (again prioritise things like foundation over lip balms) as you might not be able to get the same items and it will be very pricey even if she does it at duty free.

Candles_by_Lisa

movinghelp wrote: »

I'm moving to Melbourne next week for work (probably 2 years) and am a few years older than your DD but thought I may be able to help.

The climate in Melbourne is colder than Sydney so I am taking a few more coats/jackets than she'll need but as these are the most expensive items to buy I think it makes sense. Ditto for shoes especially as someone has already mentioned trainers and in my case ankle boots.

Clothes are expensive to buy in Aus so you're right to advise her to take as much as she can before. Don't waste space with lots of cheap vests etc though, tell her to go for her quality pieces here especially dresses she can wear casually and for work.

I've packed and managed to fit 70 items of clothing into a 20kg suitcase mainly because I used Kon Marie's method of folding vertically. Get her to Google it. It makes a MASSIVE difference.

The other benefit of packing to move rather than for a holiday is you don't really need to bother with toiletries, shampoo etc will be easy and cheap to buy there but get her to take her favourite make up (again prioritise things like foundation over lip balms) as you might not be able to get the same items and it will be very pricey even if she does it at duty free.

Thanks for the advice will check out the Kon Marie's method for her. Fantastic idea not to bother with toiletries I hadn't thought of that and was off to get her some. That will save quite a lot weight wise. Thanks for the info on make up. She uses' MAC so no chance she would be able to afford that over there.

littlereddevil

I hope she has plenty money until she finds work. It is an expensive city.

lady1964

I've just had another thought re toiletries. Before we went to visit, I looked on Coles and Woolworths websites to price things up, things like toiletries & food items. It was worth doing as it gave us an idea of what it would cost us as we stayed in a serviced apartment so had to buy basic food items like milk, bread etc. It also meant we didn't take too much in the way of toiletries as we just got them there. Also check out if the hostel has clothes washing facilities and the prices of washing powder etc.

My daughter also bought us a couple of beach towels for about $10 each so get your daughter to buy a towel there as I don't know if a hostel will provide them and it will save on weight too.

My daughter told me that Coles is priced similar to Tesco and Woolworths priced like Sainsburys :-)

Gloomendoom

Moto2 wrote: »

I can only imagine the reaction from my daughter if my wife tried to advise her what clothes to take away with her, I think I'd hide in the shed for a week until it calmed down

Years ago my sister did an Interrail trip around Europe.

My mother insisted that she took seven petticoats.

michele-p

Just a quick thought, if your daughter is looking for work, a plain black skirt and white blouse would be good to pack. It's many years since I did it, but I registered with agencies for temp work, and had to ensure I had these.

It will be so much easier for you to keep in touch these days, with Skype, and email. I lived there for 6 months in 1999, before my parents had a pc, and email was just starting out! Long rambling letters home were fun to write though.

I'm sure she'll have the time of her life. It's still worth a few trips to places like Melbourne or Cairns though (we had limited time, so flew to Cairns, bus to Melbourne took 24 hours but was really cheap)! Seeing the barrier reed was just amazing.