In This Guide
Coping
It's a dirty job
Move countdown
On the day
Plan your move
1. Advanced planning
2. Golden rules of packing
3. How to pack
4. Tell the world
5. Preparing the new home
Removal services
Storage services
Plan your move
Tell the world
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We have prepared a checklist of all the people we can think of that you should tell about your move. Feel free to print this out and cross them off when you have informed them.
If we have missed anyone, please let us know.
For Pete's sake don't tell anyone that your address is changing
until you are sure that it will be. Pete is the guy who is in
charge of all the address administration in the world* and assures
us that many of the systems will not be able to cope with a change
of address and then a change back. The result could be chaos and
is a fine example of over eagerness.
*Not true
Don't forget that for some of these headings, you may need to speak to two lots of people - one for your old life and one for your new one.
| Person | Told them yet? |
A person not on this list
Accountant
Babysitter
Banks
Building societies
Buildings and contents insurer
Cable or digital TV
Car breakdown services - AA, RAC, Green flag etc.
Car insurer
Car washer
Catalogue shopping companies
Charities you regularly donate to
Cleaner
Clubs and societies
Colleges
Credit card companies
Dentist
Department of Social Security
Doctor
DVLC - car registration
DVLC - driving licence
Electoral role
Electricity
Employer
Endowment Policy
Financial adviser
Friends
Gardener
Gas provider
Gym or leisure centre
Hire purchase providers
Inland Revenue
Internet Service Provider (ISP)
Landlord
Library
Life insurer
Loan Companies
Local authority for council tax
Magazine subscriptions
Milkman
Mobile Phone Companies
Mortgage payment protection insurance provider
National savings and premium bonds
Newsagent
Nursery or playgroup
Online Shopping Accounts (eg. Amazon)
Optician
Paid-for ISP
Parole officer
Passport office(s)
Pension provider
Pet Insurance
Police
Post office
Premium bonds - through the post office
Private clinics
Private Healthcare companies
Professional or regulatory bodies
Relatives
Religious organisations
Rental agreements
Royal Mail
Security system provider for your home
Schools
Share accounts and registrars
Solicitor
StockbrokerStore Cards (eg. Tesco,Boots)
Telephone company
Tutors
TV licence
Union
Universities
Vet
Water board
Web Hosting Companies
Window cleaner
Your buyer, so they can forward mail
It makes you realise just how many people may hold details about you on file...
See how many of these are integrated into the Move countdown
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