Your Moving Checklist

12 weeks before you move

✅  Chose your mover and signed the acceptance note
✅  Sort through basement, loft and garage
✅  Resolve what to do with prohibited items
✅  Make proper provision for pets
✅  Decide whether or not you are taking your car

10 weeks before your move

✅  Dispose of the things you don’t want to take

8 weeks before you move

✅  Start to prepare your mailing list of people who need your change of address
✅  Notify banks, savings accounts, credit card companies, magazine subscriptions, hire purchase and rental companies
✅  Start to round up passports, birth/marriage certificates and other family documentation
✅  Apply for any necessary visas
✅  Check that electrical goods will work in your new home

6 weeks before you move

✅  Separate favourite toys
✅  Make sure your pet’s vaccinations are up to date
✅  Arrange for mail to be forwarded
✅  Decide whether or not to buy any new household goods – check tax refunds

4 weeks before you move

✅  Decide which clothes travel with you
✅  Start to dismantle climbing frames/garden furniture
✅  Agree on insurance value and terms with your mover
✅  Make arrangements of connection of services at your new home
✅  Return library books
✅  Cancel deliveries, newspapers, subscriptions, etc.
✅  Find new homes for your plants

7 days before your move

✅  Defrost the refrigerator/freezer
✅  Plan simple meals for moving day to avoid using appliances
✅  Separate luggage items you need for personal travel
✅  Clean garden tools, bicycles and any other gardening equipment
✅  Empty the fuel tanks of powered tools such as mowers
✅  Check you have enough medication for at least two weeks, and ensure you have copies of any necessary prescriptions for use at destination
✅  Collect travelers checks or local currency
✅  Arrange for someone to look after the children on moving day

Moving day

✅  Relax!