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Your Essential Moving Checklist: all you need to know and do before moving day.
Six Weeks Before Move
- Confirm your move with moving company
- Identify prohibited items (combustible materials) and make arrangements to transport/discard before the move
- Make preparations for pets
- Sort, organize, donate, and get rid of unwanted household belongings
Four Weeks Before Move
- Inform people of your new address, including the post office for forwarding services
- Notify banks and other financial institutions about your move
- Safely collect passports, birth/marriage certificates and other important documentation
Three Weeks Before Move
- Separate favorite toys and household articles, save the last for packing
- Arrange for mail to be forwarded 2 weeks before you move
- Start to dismantle climbing frames, garden furniture, and any other large-scale items
- Agree upon an insurance value and terms with your mover
- Return library books
- Find a new home for your plants (most moving companies do not transport plants)
Week of the Move
- Defrost the refrigerator & freezer
- Plan simple meals or take-out for moving day to avoid using appliances
- Clean garden tools, bicycles and other gardening equipment
- Empty the tanks of powered tools such as mowers
- Make arrangements for travel to final destination