Toy collecting tip of the day - 19
How to prepare your travel luggage for lugging toys home from overseas shopping - Most people use a small boxy trolley luggage to pack the things they need to wear and use when going on an overseas trip. Many a times, we don’t really know what kind of toys we might buy during the trip, much less know the size of the toys and their packaging to cater a space for them in our luggage.
A suggestion is to pack in some foldable hand carry travel bags (those cylindrical shaped travel bags that some tour agencies tend to give out to their customers for free) in your travel trolley luggage. If you have no problems hand carrying your toy purchases in their given shopping bags, then do it that way if you prefer.
If not, some MOC and smaller MIB toys are better off packed in your boxy trolley luggage to protect them. Use your clothes as padding to stop the toys from moving about in your trolley luggage. Your excess clothes can be packed into the foldable travel bags that you brought along and then padlocked before checking them all in with the main luggage!
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Hi Juliana,
Do Singapore tax when we bring it toys from other countries? If I go US I sure buy big box of Lego like green grocer. Lego there is very cheap.
Hi hippo,
I guess not if you manage to pack in everything into your luggage and that your hand carried items are not that bulky till they look like expensive items.
If you have items shipped to you by post from overseas, then make sure their total value in one package does not exceed SGD 400.00, if not you’ll get taxed 7% GST by Singapore Customs. They will retain your parcel at their Eunos Customs office (next to the SingPost HQ) till you go and pay up.