Updated: 4 November 2026

Moving house checklist and timeline

This prompt creates a moving checklist and timeline from your old place to your new one for a date you name.

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Create a moving checklist for moving from [OLD PLACE] to [NEW PLACE] on [DATE].

Household: [PEOPLE AND PETS]
Moving with: [SELF / MOVERS]

Give a countdown timeline from eight weeks to moving day, addresses and services to change, packing order by room, what to do on moving day and a checklist for the first week.

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What you will get

A countdown from eight weeks to moving day, a list of addresses and services to update, a packing order room by room, a moving-day plan and a first-week list at the new place.

Common mistake

The list is built for a family home but you rent one room.

Fix: Fill in your household honestly, including flatmates and pets, so it skips things like school transfers you do not need.

Also watch for

Services that need weeks of notice come too late. Ask it to put internet, utility transfers and any mail redirection in week eight or seven, since some providers take weeks to switch.
Pets are forgotten on moving day. Add where the pets will be during loading, such as with a friend or shut in one cleared room, so doors left open are not a risk.

Try a variation: plan a move abroad

Add the destination country and ask for extra steps for visas, shipping, bank accounts, tax registration and what to carry in hand luggage.

Still not right? Reply with this

Turn the packing part into a list of box labels, one line each, saying what is inside and which room it goes to in the new place.