Old Location
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

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
  
• 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