Helpful Hints

1. If you have young children and/or pets, it is a good idea to make arrangements for them to be elsewhere during the packing, moving and unpacking process. Our experience has taught us that moving can be a traumatic event for them. On moving day, small children and pets can hinder the moving crews and perhaps cause an accident.

2. If family or friends ask what they can do to be helpful, ask for some childcare and/or pet sitting, or for a potluck dinner delivered at the end of moving day.

3. In the month prior to your move, enclose a change of address notification with your payment when paying bills.

4. Make calls for change of utilities, cable, telephone service, etc. at least two weeks in advance of your move to ensure that you have the changeover dates that you need. In case there is an unexpected delay, have utilities and telephone turned on at the new home the day before you move and off at the old home the day after whenever possible.

5. If you have sophisticated sound and computer equipment, call the installer to dismantle it and hook it back up for you.

6. Prepare a “Sanity Box” and keep it with you. It needs to hold all of the items you need during the course of the move, such as address book, telephone, tape, scissors, basic tools, picnic supplies, bathroom items, sheets, towels, first aid kit, medical and pet records.

 

 

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