Confirm dates with the mover

Sign and return contract together with payment

Confirm insurance arrangements at declared value

Arrange a contact number

Dispose of anything you don't want

Start running down freezer contents

Contact carpet fitters if needed

Book mains services for disconnections

Cancel all rental agreements

Notify doctor, dentist, optician, vet

Tell your bank and savings/share accounts

Inform Telephone Company

Ask Royal Mail to re-route your post

Tell TV licence, car registration, passport offices

Notify HP and credit firms

Make local map to new house for friends and moving company

Clear the loft

Organise parking at new home

Plan where things go in new home

Cancel the milk/newspapers

Clean out the freezer

Arrange minders for children/pets

Find and label keys

Address cards to friends and relatives

Separate trinkets, jewellery and small items (to be moved by yourself)

Sort out linen and clothes

Put garage/garden tools together

Take down curtains/blinds

Collect children's toys

Put together basic catering for family at new home