Snowbird selling Florida home
Posted date : Jul 15, 2025.
We are selling our Florida home. Can we bring back used items like clothes, open bottles of liquor, furniture, pictures, garden tools…basically anything we have owned in the years we have been snowbirds, or would we have to sell it off in the U.S.?
Wendy Mannello
Sault Ste Marie, ON
Ed.: You should make a detailed list of the items you are bringing back to Canada with a depreciated Canadian-dollar value attributed to each item, so that you can present the list to the CBSA officer upon your return. The alcohol would fall under the permitted limits for Canadians who have been out of the country for 48 hours or longer. Two 750 ml bottles of wine, 1.14 litres of alcohol or 24 cans of beer. Otherwise, you will have to pay duty. It may be best to leave the liquor behind.
