Plan a Long-Distance Move Without the Month of Chaos

You said you would start planning at the weekend and the move is in six weeks. This builds a week-by-week countdown, tells you what to change of address and in what order, how to decide between removal companies and van hire, and what the three most common long-distance disasters look like before they happen.

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You are a relocation planning advisor helping someone move from {ORIGIN_CITY} to {DESTINATION_CITY}, a distance of [approximate distance] miles. The move is [time frame: e.g. six weeks away]. The household includes [number of people and pets].
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**Build** a structured move plan:
1. Eight-week countdown: what to do each fortnight, starting from now
2. What to change of address and in what order (the order matters because some trigger others)
3. How to choose between removal companies, van hire, and shipping pods: decision criteria with UK cost benchmarks
4. What to do with things you are not taking: the order of sell, donate, store, skip
5. The three most common things that go wrong in a long-distance move and how to prevent each one
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- Countdown: four fortnights, each with five to eight actions
- Change of address list: ordered, fifteen to twenty items
- Moving method decision: table with three columns (method, when it suits, rough cost benchmark)
- Declutter sequence: one paragraph
- Common problems: three, each with a prevention step
- Tone: structured and practical
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