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Moving
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Two Months Before Moving
- Sort through your belongings to reduce
the number of things you have to move.
- Have a garage sale or donate items
you no longer need to charity
- Decide whether to move yourself or
hire professionals. Make reservations with a moving
company or a truck rental company
Tip: Call three companies for estimates to compare.
- Gather packing supplies: boxes, packing
material, tape, felt markers, and scissors
- If you’re moving a long distance,
make travel arrangements with the airline, hotel and
rental car agency. If you’re moving to your new
home, get maps and plan your travel route
- Save all moving receipts, because some
moving expenses may be tax deductible. Check the current
tax code for requirements.
- Place you legal, medical, Financial,
and insurance records in a sage and accessible place.
- Purchase insurance coverage for valuables
to be moved
Two Months before Moving
- Sort through your belongings to reduce
the number of things you have to move.
- Have a garage sale or donate items
you no longer need to charity
- Decide whether to move yourself or
hire professionals. Make reservations with a moving
company or a truck rental company
Tip: Call three companies for estimates to compare.
- Gather packing supplies: boxes, packing
material, tape, felt markers, and scissors
- If you’re moving a long distance,
make travel arrangements with the airline, hotel and
rental car agency. If you’re moving to your new
home, get maps and plan your travel route
- Save all moving receipts, because some
moving expenses may be tax deductible. Check the current
tax code for requirements.
- Place you legal, medical, Financial,
and insurance records in a sage and accessible place.
- Purchase insurance coverage for valuables
to be moved.
One Month Before Moving
- Start packing items that aren’t
regularly used such as off-season clothes and decorations
and items in storage areas (garage, attic, and closets)
- Make travel arrangements for you pets
- If you’re driving, get your car
tuned up.
- Get medical records from you doctors,
dentist, optometrist and veterinarian
- Send items (rugs, drapes, clothing,
quilts, bedding) to the cleaners
- Back up important computer files
Two Weeks Before Moving
- Contact your utility companies (gas,
electric, water, cable, trash collector, and local phone
service providers) and notify them of your move.
- Sign up for services at your new address
- Contact your long distance phone company
and notify them of your move.
- Call Friends and family and recruit
help for the moving day if necessary
- Confirm you travel reservations
- Arrange to close or transfer you back
account, if appropriate, pick up items for safety deposit
box.
One Week Before Moving
- Pick up items from the cleaners, repair
shops or friends
- Pack a survival kit of clothes, medicines,
special foods, and so on to carry you through the day
after arrival in your new homes.
- Finish packing all boxes minus what
you’ll need in the final week
- Inform the post office of your upcoming
move.
- Send change-of- address cards with
your new address and phone number to:
- Friends and family
- Banks, insurance companies, credit
card companies, and other financial institutions
- Magazines and newspapers
- Doctors, lawyer, accountant, realtor,
and other service providers
- State and federal tax authorities
and any other government agencies as needed
- Workplace, schools and alma maters
- Voter registration office and motor
vehicle bureau
The Day Before
- Set aside moving materials, such as
tape measures, pocket knife, and rope.
- Pad corners and stairways of house.
- Lay down old sheets in the entry and
hallways to protect floor coverings
- Remove hanging fixtures
- If moving yourself, pick up; the rental
truck and a hand truck or dolly to move heavy boxes.
- If you’re driving, check oil
and gas in your car
- If you’re traveling, make sure
you have tickets, charge cards and other essentials
Moving Day
Carry with you:
- The keys to your new home
- Map of new town and directions to you
house.
- The telephone number of the moving
company
- Cash or travelers checks
- Documentation related to the sale of
your homes
- Your insurance policies and agent’s
phone number
- Your current address book or personal
planner
- Prescription and non-prescription medicines
- Enough clothing to get by on if the
movers are late.
- Any important personal records and
documents
- Any items of greater personal value
to you that are virtually irreplaceable (for example,
a photo album.)
- Back up copies of important computer
files
- Sheets and towels for the first night
in you new home
- Personal hygiene items (for example:
toothpaste, soap, razor)
Arrival Day
- Show movers where to place furniture
and boxes
- Check inventory to ensure that everything
was delivered before signing delivery papers. Note any
damage on the inventory sheet
Tip: It’s helpful to have the movers read
off the inventory numbers on boxes and furniture while
you check the inventory list.
- Unpack any valuable items, such as
silver, art and jewelry, upon arrival
After the Move
- Walk and drive around you neighborhood
and community to orient yourself and your family
- Get new drivers licenses, library cards,
voter registration cards, and bus passes.
- Enroll children in school
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