When we move in the US, the military will move 16,000 pounds of our stuff to the location they are sending us, but abroad our allowance is coming in at around 7000 pounds and that includes the 1250 pounds of consumables and whatever is considered professional gear.
For those of you who don't move all of the time, there are various ways that you can estimate how much your household goods weigh and I haven't found one that is really good. For example, one way is to use the guide of assuming each room weighs 1000 pounds.
That has never worked for us, because we have so many items that are high in weight (like books). Below are pictures of three bookcases that are in our family room. I didn't tidy them before I took the picture, mind you. These bookcases are stacked three deep and were purged and books donated within the last year. This room weighs a lot more than 1000 pounds.
Most of the books on these shelves will go into storage. We are taking as many books as we think we can load into our shipment, but know that Amazon will be our friend when abroad.
One way that we are getting to take a bit more than we thought is that because of Darling Husband having a certain job title we are able to claim some of our items as Professional Gear. The military member always gets some professional gear, like reference books, one computer, etc., but this move we get to add his civilian clothing (suits,jackets,shiny tassled loafers) and our china, silver, stemware or anything we will need for entertaining - so.... all of the below will be in our professional gear pile.
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