A checklist to help you in the run up to moving day

• Confirm dates with mover
• Sign and return Contract
• Arrange a contact number
• Dispose of anything you don’t want
• Start running down freezer contents
• Book mains services for disconnections
• Cancel all rental agreements
• Notify doctors, optician, vet
• Tell bank and saving accounts
• Inform telephone company
• Ask Post Office to re-route mail
• Tell TV licence, driving licence, passport office
• Notify HP and credit firms
• Obtain map to new house for friends and removal company
• Clear the loft
• Organise parking at new home
• Plan where things go in new home
• Cancel the milk and newspapers
• Clean out freezer
• Arrange minders for children / pets
• Find and Label keys
• Give new address cards to friends and relatives
• Sort out linen and clothes
• Put garage / garden tools together
• Take down curtains / blinds
• Collect children’s toys
• Put together basic catering for family at new home