Moving Tips

Two Months before Move Day

• Contact Thoughtful Moving to make your reservation for the day you want to move.
• Take an inventory of your household goods
• Begin to remove clutter from the closets, garage and other storage areas of your home.
• Start a file for all of your moving paperwork. Arrange the transfer of school records.
• Get your new home ready. Contact cleaners, painters and remember to change the locks

Six Weeks before Move Day

• Start using food and cleaning supplies that cannot be moved.
• Clean all closets and drawers.
• Make arrangements for storage if necessary.
• Complete post office change of address cards.

Four Weeks before Move Day

• If you are doing your own packing, purchase packing materials and get started.
• Schedule disconnection of utility services at old home and connection at your new home.
• Make arrangements for transportation of your pets and plants if necessary.
• Plan your moving sale. Remember to check with local authorities about restrictions.

Three Weeks before Move Day

• Confirm details with Thoughtful Moving.
• If you live in or are moving to a building with an elevator, arrange for use of the elevator.
• If necessary, make child-care arrangements for moving day.
• Hold your moving sale.

Two Weeks before Move Day

• Arrange to donate or dispose of anything not sold at your move sale.
• Return library books and any borrowed items.
• Cancel or change newspaper delivery.
• Assemble a file of information to leave for the new owner of your home.
• Send change of address cards to anyone who will need to contact you or go online to usps.com to change your address.
• Pick up laundry / dry cleaning.

One Day before Move Day

• Let movers pack your belongings (unless you’ve done it yourself).
• Set aside anything that will travel in your car so it will not be loaded on the truck.
• Pack a box of items that will be needed first the new house. Marked “Load Last”.
• Obtain cash, money order or cashier’s check to pay movers.

Move Day

• Be sure someone is at the old house to answer questions the movers may have.
• Double check your home before leaving to make sure you have not left anything behind.
• Supervise unloading and unpacking.