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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hijinks" data-source="post: 2298079" data-attributes="member: 31094">In my state, the united states post office has a moving kit that's free.  It contains cards that you fill out to change your address at the post office, as well as moving tips, coupons for money off moving services, and numbers for local utility companies.Make a list of your utility companies that you now use.  Have the address of the new apartment handy.  Call each company and arrange for the service to be transferred on the date of your move.  I also prefer the budget system; you give the, for example, electric company, the new address and say something like "What's the average monthly budget payment for that address?"  They'll tell you what it averages out to - depending on your location, some utilities may or may not be higher in the summer than in the winter, or vice versa.  Paying the same amount each month in a budget payment sometimes is better than paying for actual usage.   Call the phone company and cable company as far ahead as possible, because in July you get lots of college students moving around and getting things hooked up, and so you may have to wait 2-3 weeks in the new place with no phone and/or cable.  The sooner you arrange to have it hooked up on or around the date you'll be in the new place, the quicker you'll get it hooked up. I've never moved with a moving van, just my own back and small cars, so I can't help you with that, but I *have* moved several times on my own, no one to help me, so I've had to learn this crap by myself. Aside note:  Can I just say that working in a GLASS office building with a broken air conditioner in JUNE sucks.</blockquote>

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