Moving Checklist

This key moving checklist will help you keep track of everything during your move, whether you're packing your old place or nesting in the new.

• Choose a moving service or moving company
• Create moving binder for contracts or important documents
• Schedule disconnection or transfer of electric, gas, telephone, lawn care service, subscriptions, water, trash, laundry, TV, and internet services
• Get copies of your medical records from current doctors and dentists
• Transfer children's school records
• Obtain your insurance records
• Make arrangements for your house pets
• If you're moving with house plants, research your moving carrier and state transportation laws
• Obtain security deposit (if renting your home)
• Gather necessary packing materials
• Service your large appliances (drain water hoses, turn off valves)
• Return library books
• Schedule a change-of-address with the Post Office
• Retrieve any items from dry cleaners, safety deposit boxes, or cold storage
• If you're banking with a local credit union, transfer bank accounts
• Leave items that you'll need immediately after the move in a designated place to be loaded last and unpacked first
• Discard or plan to use food and perishable items
• Pack suitcases and overnight bags for your travel during the move
• Confirm your travel reservations (e.g., car rental, plane tickets, hotel stays)
• Set aside travel essentials for car or plane (e.g., games, phone chargers, snacks, water, first aid, etc)
• Draw up a floor plan of your new place to map out future furniture placement
• Check to make sure your electric, gas, telephone, lawn care service, subscriptions, water, trash, laundry, TV, and internet services are connected
• Choose your local doctors and dentists in your new city
• Make plans for the disposal or recycling of your used packing materials