Contact Movers
Get estimates from several companies. Choose one. Set the date. Check on cargo insurance covering your possessions.
Change Address
Post Office
Magazines
Life, Health, Homeowners & Auto Insurance
Credit Card Companies
Clubs & Organizations
Notify Services
Newspaper
Garbage Collection
Pick up any items at the shoe repair, watch repair, etc.
Notify Utilities of Cut Off Date
Gas/Oil
Electric
Water
Telephone
Notify utlilities in your new community of your arrival date, so service may be started immediately.
Arrange To Transfer
Insurance Policies - make sure possessions will be covered at your new home and enroute.
Bank Accounts - have your present bank supply a credit reference for establishing your new account in the city to which you are moving. Arrange to close out accounts and transfer the contents of your safe deposit box. Purchase sufficient traveler's checks to cover expenses until you reach your destination. Savings and loan accounts, car and other possesions if not fully paid for.
Notify Services
Newspaper
Garbage Collection
Pick up any items at shoe repair, watch repair, etc.
Get Records
Church - birch, Baptism and other records
School - statement of present status of each child
Doctors - records of shots, allergies, special prescriptions, etc.
Dentists - copy of record & x-rays
Request a counterpart to contact when you arrive in your new community.
Get Appliances Ready
Contact a utility serviceman or mover to disconnect appliances at a specified time.
Washer/Dryer
Range
Refrigerator/Freezer
Air Conditioner
Find A Key Keeper
Leave keys for your old home with a real estate agent or a neighbor.
Have Someone Await Movers
Someone must be at both your old home and your new one to meet the movers. They get paid, even while they wait to get in.
Appliances
Have local utility check and install:
Washer/Dryer
Range
Refrigertor/Freezer
Air Conditioner
Register To Vote
Sometimes a certain period of residency is required before you are eligible to vote, so check on this right away.
Register Children In School
Register Your Automobile
If you have moved to another state.
Have Address Changed
On driver's license and other official papers.
Before packing, get rid of everything you dont need. Call charitable organizations to collect things they can use (you get tax credit). Hold a garage or yard sale.
As you pack, make an inventory list of your belongings for insurance purposes. List approximate values.
Start early. Pack off-season clothes, "good" glassware and other things you seldom use.
Get a black felt marking pen and wide masking tape. Label every box and piece of furniture as to what's in it and where it goes.
Seal partially used bottles and boxes of food with masking tape to avoid leaks and spills
Move valuable jewelry, documents, works of art, etc., yourself or make sure they will be insured in transit.
Separate and clearly mark any boxes or items which movers are not to take.