Moving · 13 recordsMoving house

Moving is not one job, it is three: the logistics of the move itself, the packing, and the long tail of telling everybody where you now live. The third one has no deadline and is what people are still doing three months later.

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Goal

Moved, with everything switched over Week 8

Including the address changes, which is the part still running in month three.

The move itself Week 8

Removals, time off, keys and utilities.

  • Book removals or a vanDo firstDay 10
  • Book the time off workDo firstWeek 2
  • Arrange meter readings and utility switchesWeek 6

Pack and change the address Week 8

Packing starts early; the address list has no deadline at all.

  • Pack anything I would not miss for two monthsWeek 3
  • List everyone who needs the new addressDo firstWeek 4
  • Set up post redirectionWeek 6

Routines

  • Pack two boxesweekly
  • Tell one more organisation the new addressweekly
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Moving day

Week 808:00600 min
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Three jobs, not one

The move, the packing, and telling everybody where you now live. The third has no deadline, which is why people are still doing it three months later — so it is a dated project here rather than a vague intention.\n\nThe last week should be essentials only. It is the week everything else goes wrong, and packing is the part that can be moved earlier.

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Moving house, answered.

About eight weeks out, which is what this plan is dated against. Removals and time off both get harder to arrange inside a month, and they are the two things everything else has to fit around.
More organisations than you will remember unprompted — bank, insurers, employer, doctor, licence, subscriptions, anything with a renewal. It is a project here rather than a task precisely because the list is long and has no deadline.
Anything you would not miss for two months, starting as early as possible. The last week should be nothing but essentials, because that is the week everything else goes wrong and packing is the part that can be moved earlier.
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