# Make a moving timeline and checklist

A week-by-week moving plan from eight weeks out through the first week in your new home.

- Topic: Productivity & Planning
- Framework: Few-Shot
- Level: Standard
- Tags: Plan, Fill-in Template
- Source: https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/prompts/make-a-moving-timeline-and-checklist

## Prompt

```text
Create a moving plan for me.

**Moving from and to:** [e.g. "apartment to house, same city", "cross-country", "abroad"]
**Moving date:** [DATE] and **today's date:** [DATE]
**Household:** [PEOPLE, KIDS' AGES, PETS]
**Home size and stuff:** [e.g. "2 bedrooms, lots of books"]
**Moving method:** [movers / rental truck / portable container / undecided]
**Budget:** [AMOUNT]
**Special items:** [e.g. "piano", "plants", "medications", "important documents"]

Build:
1. A week-by-week timeline working back from my moving date (8 weeks out to moving day), compressed if I have less time.
2. Admin tasks with timing: book movers or truck, notify landlord, transfer or set up utilities and internet, change address, update school records, move prescriptions, and update insurance.
3. A packing plan: room-by-room order (least-used first), box labeling system (room + contents + priority), and how many boxes to expect.
4. An "open first" box list and a separate bag for documents, medicines, chargers, and valuables that travels with me, not the truck.
5. A moving-day schedule, including plans for kids and pets that day.
6. The first-week checklist in the new home: test smoke and CO alarms, find the water shutoff and breaker panel, change locks if possible.

Return the timeline as a table: Week | Task | Owner | Done.
```

## What to fill in

- DATE
- PEOPLE, KIDS' AGES, PETS
- e.g. "2 bedrooms, lots of books"
- movers / rental truck / portable container / undecided
- AMOUNT
- e.g. "piano", "plants", "medications", "important documents"

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