One Month Before Moving Check
- Start getting estimates on moving: Moving Company, Rental Truck
- Pick up your health records: Medical, Dental, Optometrist, School Records
- School Records
- Financial / Legal Records
- Veterinarian Records
- Keep the move simple: Good time to consider what is worth keeping
- Plan a Garage Sale
- Begin to try to use perishable foods: Not worth packing
- Obtain packing supplies: Boxes, Packing Tape, Paper, Markers
- Start packing & labeling items you know you won’t need
- Obtain a Change of Address kit from the Post Office
- Give your new address to: Banks, Credit Card Co., Insurance, Employer
Three Weeks Before Moving Check List
- Contact your children’s new school & make any necessary arrangements
- Open (transfer) a bank account in your new town
- Make arrangements for connections of utilities at your new home
- Have your vehicles serviced, as necessary
- Make arrangements for auto registration & insurance, as necessary
- Make arrangements with a Moving Company, as necessary
Two Weeks Before Moving Check List
- Make arrangements to close (or transfer) your old bank account
- Dispose of poisons, flammables & corrosives
- Make arrangements for disconnection of utilities at your old home
- Contact newspaper in old town to cancel subscription
- Arrange for childcare on Moving Day, as necessary
- Library Books returned or other items that need to be return
One Weeks Before Moving Check List
- Clear out Safety Deposit Box
- DPick up Traveler’s Checks, as necessary
- Begin to plan meals around cleaning out the refrigerator & pantry
- Use or drain fuel/oil from lawn mowers, trimmers, etc
- Ensure you have adequate supplies of Prescription Medications
- Library Books returned or other items that need to be return
- Do your family & friends have your new address & phone number
- Notify Utility Company: Discount or Transfer
Day Before Moving Check List
- Defrost & clean out your refrigerator
- Clean other appliances as necessary
- Pack your old Phone Book for reference as necessary
- Touch base with everyone who is supposed to help on Moving Day
- Thoroughly clean house, Tidy the yard, garage, shed, Get rid of garbage
- Any building materials related to the property, could be appreciated by new owners
- Welcome to your new home: Personal note for the new owners
MOVING DAY
- Take down window coverings that are not attached to the wall
- Strip beds
- Pack / Load remaining items as necessary
- Make one last, through sweep of house & property for forgotten items
- Make sure doors & windows are locked
- Ensure Moving Company has correct address (cell phone number)
- Using a road map, go over the best route to your new home with others
- Collect & label all keys, extra house keys, garage, shed, mailbox
- Place keys, garage door opener + codes, security system info in a conspicuous space
- Leave behind any instruction books, warranties, any repair records
AFTER MOVING DAY
- Check Fire Extinguishers, Smoke Alarms, Carbon Monoxide Detectors
- Ensure all windows & doors lock properly
- Obtain new Safety Deposit Box
- Contact all publications with subscriptions
- Register to vote
- Purchase a new address return stamp at any office supply store
Moving Resources
- www.uhaul.com – for trucks rentals but also great for getting boxes & other Packing supplies.
- www.pods.com – for packing & storage solutions. They deliver a pod & you pack It up & they get it to your next home or will store it for you.
- www.1800GotJunk.com – junk removal services