Movers Guide: 4

Last Minute Details

The details of packing are just part of the home-moving process. If you're making a long-distance move, for example, you need to get your car tuned and serviced for the trip (that is, if you aren't towing it). There are several other important arrangements to be made:

• Obtain school transcripts for your children.
• Contact the utilities and arrange to have your service disconnected. (Don't forget to collect any deposits.) Make sure your new services will be connected when you arrive.
• Stop your newspaper delivery, cable TV service, etc.
• Give the Post Office a forwarding address.
• Gather all your important personal papers and records from your safe deposit or wherever, and keep them with you during the move.
• If you're traveling cross-country, put together a travel kit: check book, credit cards, ID cards, flash light, keys, small tools, soap, paper cups, alarm clock, aspirin, paper towels, bandages, comics and games for the kids. How about a cooler with cold drinks and snacks?
• Send out change-of-address notices to magazines and charge accounts.
• Recruit moving day help.
• Hire a babysitter for moving day.
• Close your bank accounts. Get your balances in traveler's checks.
• Obtain mailing addresses for your family physician and dentist (your new doctors will need to order your files directly).
• Pack a suitcase as if you were going away for a week.
• The day before your move, gas up the car (if you won't be towing it) then try to get a good night's sleep.

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