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Plan a house move week by week

Moving feels like a hundred jobs at once. Get an 8-week countdown, a moving-day plan and a first-week list.

Updated 17 Oct 2026

The prompt · ChatGPT

Help me plan a house move.

Moving date: [date]
Renting or buying: [and whether I'm leaving a rental]
Who's moving: [people, ages, pets]
Distance: [e.g. across town, 200 miles]
Already booked or sorted: [e.g. removals, van hire, nothing yet]
What I'm dreading: [e.g. packing the kitchen, the loft]

Before you start, ask me up to 4 short questions if anything important is missing, a few at a time. Wait for my answers.

Then:
1. A countdown from 8 weeks out to moving day, grouped by week, with tick boxes.
2. A moving-day timeline with rough times: what to do before the van comes, meter readings and photos at both homes, and the last check before leaving.
3. An "open first" box list for the first night.
4. A first-week list at the new home.
5. Mark anything legal, contractual or about deposits with "check with my solicitor, conveyancer, letting agent or GOV.UK".

Don't invent deadlines or rules. Use only what I've told you, and mark anything you've guessed. 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. and whether I'm leaving a rental: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.

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