Notify your friends and family about your new home address, inform all institutions, banks, credit card providers, car insurance etc. Cancel any local newspaper subscriptions. Terminate power, water and gas supply to your old home and start moving services such as TV and Broadband to the new address. Typically all suppliers have a one month notice requirement, so don’t forget and cancel in time to avoid unwanted costs.

Start planning your move, decide if you need a day off work, if you require to be in constant contact with your office make sure that you will have a mobile phone that you will be able to relay on as your landline most likely will not be working on the day of your move.

Start marking boxes, this will help you to asses if you have enough of them or if you need more. Mark them with the names of the rooms so it is easier to unpack at your new place. Mark “Open First” clearly on boxes containing important items to be unpacked straight away, such as bedding, clothes, kitchen items etc.