#Checklists for moving how to

The real packing begins – it's time to get organised and start putting everything in boxes.

Read More What makes a house saleable right now? One week before You can leave this until two weeks before if you'd rather have less time living amongst boxes.

Start the packing process for any items you won't need for the next few weeks – coats and jumpers if it's summer, summer clothes if it's winter, books and so on.

If your movers offer a packing service, you can ignore this.

If you are packing your own house, order boxes, tape and other necessities.

Similarly, see if you can set up new suppliers for the next house.

Let your gas and electricity suppliers know you're moving and what your final date in the house will be.

Once you find one that suits, see if you can already enrol as a patient so it's done when you arrive.

Get your medical records from the GP and dentist and research new practices where you're moving to.

Make travel arrangements for the move, if it's to a new area.

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Contact new schools and nurseries to get a place set for your children, if you haven't already.

If you're moving area, notify gyms, schools, nurseries and the like of your plans and give them the date.Take stock of what you might want to move yourself – any sentimental or precious items – and make a list so you don't pack them later down the line.Get insurance in place for the move if you have any valuables and, for those with high value art, book specialist art movers.If in doubt, always go with a recommendation from a friend. Look at a range of companies, read reviews, get prices and find out their flexibility in case completion dates (when buying a house) have to fluctuate.

Choose a mover and book them – if you know your move – or get in touch to keep some slots pencilled in for the likely time.

#Checklists for moving how to

We have a comprehensive guide on how to declutter room-by-room that can be your bible.

Declutter! There is nothing quite like moving house to force you to take stock of what you own, what you really don't need or use and what therefore does not need to move houses with you.

Print it out, stick it on the fridge and check items off one-by-one until you finally reach the big day, smug in the knowledge that you sailed through it with ease. Below, you'll find a list of all the things you need to do, stretching back as much as two months before the move date. However, help is at hand in the form of a checklist that will keep your house, mind and family in order as much as possible as you navigate these choppy waters. It's one of those life events that puts our routines into disarray and forces us to live in semi-chaos for days (or weeks) at a time.

Most of us emerge exhausted, swearing that we shall never go through that again – until the next time, of course.” Some people claim they love it but most of us, quite understandably, find the whole ordeal stressful and manic, no matter how organised we think we are. Blanche Vaughan's Devon house Dean HearneĪs our editor-at-large, Liz Elliot, once wrote in a house story, “Only divorce or death are thought to be more stressful than moving house.