Printable Moving Countdown Planner (Free PDF)

The four weeks before moving day, one box per day, counting down from day minus twenty-seven to the move itself.

Printable moving countdown planner with four week columns of day boxes ending at moving day
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A moving checklist tells you what to do; it does not tell you when. This sheet is the other half: four columns, one per week, each holding seven day boxes that count down from day minus twenty-seven to moving day. Every box has a short date line at the top and ruled writing room underneath, so you put the real dates in once and then spread the jobs across the days instead of discovering them all in the last seventy-two hours.

The columns are headed four weeks to go, three weeks, two weeks and moving week, and the final box is marked MOVING DAY and tinted so it stands out from the rest of the page. Working backwards from that box is the point of the sheet: utilities, the post redirection, the school transfer and the van booking all have a date by which they have to be done, and here they sit on the day you chose rather than on a list with no deadline.

There are lines at the top for the moving date and the new address. A six-week version is there for a move with a longer run-up, such as one that involves a sale or a visa. Every date line and every day box is a fillable form field, so a shared plan can be typed and emailed, or the sheet can be printed blank and pinned up in the kitchen. One landscape page in US Letter or A4.

How to use it

  1. 1

    Choose the run-up

    Four weeks for a normal move, six if there is a sale, a visa or an overseas shipment to work around.

  2. 2

    Date the boxes

    Write the moving date at the top, then fill the date line in each box working backwards from the MOVING DAY box.

  3. 3

    Spread the jobs out

    Put packing, utilities, address changes, cleaning and handover on the days they have to happen, not all in the last week.

  4. 4

    Print or fill it in

    Print at 100% ("Actual size") so lines and boxes keep their exact spacing, or fill the form fields on screen in any PDF viewer.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. There is no watermark and no sign-up for your first 20 downloads each day; after that a free account keeps downloads going. You may print the file as often as you like for personal, school or business use.
Twenty-eight: twenty-seven days of preparation plus moving day itself. The six-week version covers forty-two days in six columns.
No. The boxes are numbered as a countdown - day minus twenty-seven down to moving day - and each has a blank line for the real date, so the sheet works for a move in any month.
About four short lines. For long lists use pdfty's printable moving checklist alongside it and keep this sheet for the timing.
Yes. The moving date, the new address, every date line and every day box are form fields, so you can fill it in and email the plan to whoever is helping.
Yes. Open the PDF in an annotation app such as GoodNotes, Notability or Xodo and write on it with a stylus, or fill the form fields in any PDF reader and keep the file on screen.

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