8 Weeks Before Your Move
- ✅ Start researching and getting quotes from licensed movers
- ✅ Create a moving budget
- ✅ Begin decluttering — sell, donate, or discard unwanted items
- ✅ Start collecting free boxes from local stores
6 Weeks Before
- ✅ Book your moving company (get a written binding estimate)
- ✅ Notify your landlord or list your home for sale
- ✅ Begin packing non-essential items
- ✅ Arrange for school transfers if moving with kids
4 Weeks Before
- ✅ Submit change of address to USPS
- ✅ Update address with bank, employer, subscriptions
- ✅ Schedule utility disconnection at old address
- ✅ Schedule utility connection at new address
- ✅ Pack seasonal items and books
2 Weeks Before
- ✅ Pack most of your belongings (leave essentials accessible)
- ✅ Confirm all details with your moving company
- ✅ Arrange childcare and pet care for moving day
- ✅ Return library books, borrowed items
- ✅ Clean out the refrigerator gradually
1 Week Before
- ✅ Pack an "essentials bag" — first night items
- ✅ Disassemble large furniture if needed
- ✅ Charge all electronics fully
- ✅ Confirm parking arrangements with building/movers
Moving Day
- ✅ Be up early and ready before movers arrive
- ✅ Do a final walkthrough of every room, closet, and cabinet
- ✅ Check all appliances are disconnected
- ✅ Photograph any pre-existing damage in old home
- ✅ Take meter readings at both addresses
- ✅ Tip your movers if they did a great job!