Contact realtors, schools, healthcare facilities and other essential personnel.
Contact your moving company to begin the planning process.
Pre-Packing
Use our website as a resource to learn about the moving process, how to pack, and more!
Clean out and donate unneeded items.
Purchase high-quality moving materials. Read about what you’ll need on our Packing Materials page.
Optional: create a moving inventory of your items in case you’d like to track everything along the journey.
Packing
Ensure you have the necessary materials such as boxes, tape, padding, wrapping and mattress bags.
Label boxes on all sides and tops.
If you’re a DIY packer, please watch our videos on how to pack fragile items. If your movers are packing for you, don’t worry about it!
Decide which items are your most valuable such as medications, paper documents, money and jewelry. These items should be moved by you, not your movers.
Now is a good time to fill out a change-of-address form with usps.gov and any other important parties.
Moving
Load your most valuable items into your personal vehicle.
When your movers arrive, give them a walkthrough explaining everything that is to be moved and what is not to be moved.
During the walkthrough, mentioning what your most valuable and fragile items are helps movers to understand what should be wrapped with a little extra padding!
Once at the new place, be available to the movers so that they know where to place things as the truck is unloaded.
Unpacking
Unpack your kitchen and bedrooms first.
Unpack common areas like your dining and living rooms next.
Unpack spare rooms, back patios and garages last.
Read our Packing & Unpacking page for more unpacking tips!
Wrap-Up
If you used movers and you thought that their service was awesome, please take a moment to leave a review online so that other people can learn how awesome they are!
Check back in with your family and friends located in the old neighborhood!
Receive 10 moving materials for free on moves over $2,000. Includes 3 small boxes, 2 medium boxes, 1 large box, 1 dish box, 2 picture boxes & 2 mattress covers.
