Moving House
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A week-by-week moving plan from eight weeks out to the first week in your new home.
This is a community list. Start a checklist to check items off or edit them.
6-8 weeks out
- Get quotes from at least three movers (or reserve a truck)
- Book the movers or truck
- Declutter: sell, donate, or toss what you won't move
- Measure large furniture and the new home's doorways
- Start using up frozen and pantry food
- Request school and medical records transfers
3-4 weeks out
- Order boxes, tape, and packing paper
- Start packing rarely used rooms and items
- Label every box with its room and contents
- Schedule utility shutoff at the old place
- Set up electricity, gas, water, and internet at the new place
- Submit a change of address with USPS
- Update your address with your bank, cards, and employer
- Arrange time off work for moving day
1 week out
- Confirm the moving date and arrival window
- Update your address with insurers, subscriptions, and doctors
- Pack most rooms, leaving daily essentials out
- Pack a first-night box
- Refill prescriptions
- Reserve elevator or truck parking, if needed
- Back up computers
Day before
- Defrost and dry the fridge and freezer
- Pack the last items and bedding (not the first-night box)
- Charge phones and power banks
- Get cash for tips and snacks for the crew
Moving day
- Do a final walkthrough of every room, closet, and cabinet
- Take photos of the meter readings
- Check the moving inventory before the truck leaves
After the move
- Change or rekey the locks
- Test smoke and carbon monoxide detectors
- Find the breaker box and main water shutoff
- Update your driver's license and car registration
- Update your voter registration
- Unpack the kitchen, bedrooms, and bathrooms first
- Break down and recycle boxes