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Plan your first home checklist beyond the kettle

Keys are coming and you don't know what you need first. Get a prioritised checklist for the first fortnight.

Updated 17 Oct 2026

The prompt · ChatGPT

Plan a first home checklist.

Move date: [date]
What's already there: [flooring, curtains, white goods]
Budget for setup: [band]
DIY comfort: [low/medium]
Pets/kids: [any]

Ask me up to 3 short questions first if anything important is missing. Wait for my answers.

Then:
1. Day-one essentials.
2. First-fortnight priorities.
3. What can wait three months.
4. Safety checks (smoke alarms, stopcock) to confirm.
5. A packing-of-essentials box list for move day.

Only use what I've told you, leave blanks for anything I haven't given, and don't invent facts, diagnoses or legal outcomes. UK English.

Stay in this ChatGPT chat. Do not turn on apps or connectors, and do not use memory from another chat.

A short example

Fill the blanks, then paste. date: a short note you already have. flooring, curtains, white goods: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.

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