Take these items into consideration while still at the old location:

• Arrange for a professional mover
• Take household goods inventory
• Check with your insurance agent about coverage for the move, transfer of policies
• Clean out closets/garage
• Send draperies and rugs to cleaners in time for packing with other goods
• Defrost freezer

Call your landlord or the following to have services shut off or disconnected:

• Water company
• Cable TV company
• Electric company
• Newspaper delivery
• Gas/oil company
• Dairy delivery
• Telephone company

Notify post office of new address and send change of address cards to:

• Charge accounts
• Credit cards
• Loan companies
• Subscriptions
• Friends, relatives

Take care of household and personal business:

• Pick up any clothing, storage items from cleaners
• Empty safe-deposit box
• Arrange for banking in new location, transfer bank funds
• Arrange for local school to transfer children's records
• Ask dentist for recommendations of new dentist and arrange for records to be forwarded
  • General dentist ___________________________________
  • Orthodontist _____________________________________
  • Other ___________________________________________
• Ask physician(s) for recommendations and arrange for records to be forwarded.
  • Family doctor ____________________________________
  • Pediatrician ______________________________________
  • Specialists ______________________________________
• Obtain veterinarian records
• Have appliances serviced for moving, if applicable
• Transfer church, club, civic organization memberships; obtain letters of introduction
• Obtain moving company's toll-free telephone number to check progress of shipment:
  • Name of company ________________________________
  • Telephone number ________________________________

Make travel arrangements:

• Flight
• Hotel reservations
• Arrange for transportation of pets
• Car rental
• Plan auto route
• Tell a close friend or relative your plans — let him/her act as your message center
• Check closets, shelves, all rooms to be sure they are empty
• Leave current house or apartment in clean condition

Before Arriving At New Location

Arrange for utility services in new area:

• Water company
• Electric company
• Gas/oil company
• Telephone company

Ask new landlord, previous tenant or real estate agent for recommendations for repair services:

• Plumber __________________________________________
• Electrician __________________________________________
• TV repair __________________________________________

New Location

• Order local newspapers
• Meet your neighbors (write down their names)
• Get recommendations for babysitters, nanny agencies, etc.
• Contact Welcome Wagon, Welcome Ambassador, or other merchant-sponsored organizations for information and free gifts, coupons
• Join Newcomers Club
• Put valuables into a safety deposit box in the new bank
• Arrange for new school to receive records
• Contact new dentists and doctors to arrange for record delivery
• Have pets licensed
• Arrange for new registration of cars (bicycles, also, if required)
• Obtain new driver's license if you moved to a new state, or correct address on present license