- Decide on a firm date for moving
- Visit or call Your Self Store to reserve your self-storage unit
- Book the Your Self Store move-in van, if required
- Book removalist or a rental van (information available upon request at Your Self Store)
- Buy packing supplies from Your Self Store
- Start packing boxes as soon as possible
- Sell or donate unneeded items
- Try a garage sale or market stall
- Advise children's school/kindergarten of move and get copies of school records
- Start to use and finish food in freezer and pantry
- Organise to redirect mail with Royal Mail
- Continue packing and remember to label each box with contents and intended location
- Have clothing dry cleaned
- Check items in repair shops
- Notify gas, electricity and phone companies of your cancellation and set date for reconnection at new address
- Advise the Electoral Role of your new address
- Change address for drivers licence and motor registration
- Make an inventory of your household contents
- Organise house insurance to be transferred from old house to new and make any adjustments for coverage
- Send change of address cards to memberships, magazines, friends and relatives
- Return borrowed items and pick up things you have lent to others
- Ask friends and relatives to help on moving day
- Arrange for pets to be transported
- Empty, clean and defrost fridge and freezer
- Check that water trays are empty
- Disconnect washing machine and let hoses drain
- Prepare other appliances for removal
- Drain Garden hoses and store in clean garbage bins
- Have everything packed and ready to load except bedding
- Consider the essential things you will need when you first arrive and carry them with you
- Remember to also carry valuables and important papers
- Have children help out (if applicable). Keeping them involved helps them take the move in their stride
- Strip beds. Cover mattresses with mattress bags
- Pick up Your Self Store Move-in Van
- Check inside the house and garden so that nothing is left behind
- Turn off water and lights
- Lock windows and doors
