Moving Day Checklist

 
123 Movers - Quick Quote Engine™
Moving From Zip Code: Moving To State: Type of Quote:
Zip Code Finder    
 
Moving day can be pretty traumatic if you’re not prepared. If you’re expecting the movers to make executive decisions regarding your own personal belongings, your move could be on the highway to hell. Take some steps to be prepared so the movers won’t be out of control while they’re in your soon-to-be-old home, make a moving checklist.

Moving Supplies

Make sure you have enough boxes and tape for your things to be packaged carefully. Label all the boxes appropriately, i.e., "bathroom materials" so the movers can go on to execute the perfect pick-up from your old home to the drop-off in your new home. This way the movers know exactly where to go with the designated boxes and you won’t be lugging a box of bathroom supplies from the living room to your bathroom. Make sure to label the boxes with permanent markers so nothing on the boxes that’s noted can be removed.
Related Articles
Cleaning Tips

Packing Tips

What To Do Just After You Moved In

Changing Your Address

Moving Basics
Back to Tips
Food/Drinks

On moving day, of course one of the goals should be to get in the good graces of the movers themselves. Be sure to make a stop at the local drug store or grocery store and have enough water bottles and snack foods so the movers don’t go hungry during your move, put it on your checklist. This will keep your movers happy and a little bit more willing to make sure your move goes well by just a little bit more.

Electronics/Utilities

If you didn’t package your computer equipment or other electronics and decided to leave it up to the movers, make sure to unplug and detach any wires. This will prevent any damage to your items and will lessen the packaging time on those items.

Valuables

Before the movers arrive to your home on moving day, make sure you have all your important valuables packaged and taken somewhere else. Be sure to keep your documents such as your social security card and passport in another place outside of your home, it should be first on your moving checklist. Losing those documents will only lead you to extremely long lines in government offices.

Final Inventory Check

Before the movers drive off from the pick-up location, make sure to do one last walk through of the house with the foremen of the movers to make sure everything that you want to be loaded is on the truck and nothing is left behind. Be sure to go through your moving checklist to make sure everything is correct. Some moving companies are hard to get a hold of in between pick-ups and drop-offs and you don’t want to have to delay the movers again by having them go back to your old home to pick up a couple of boxes. It could only lead to problems.

If you follow these moving tips, your chances of a move with fewer bumps in the road are greatly improved.
 
© 2009 Dominion Enterprises. All Rights Reserved.