Move calendar
Every task dated back and forward from moving day, with a column that says who set each deadline: a lease, a law, a city, an agency, a company, or only our suggestion.
Essential on a first pass. Every other sheet hangs off moving day. Without the calendar you still have the chapters, but no single place that shows which deadline comes first and whose it is. The move calendar explains the difference between a deadline someone else set and a lead time we suggest.
Tasks
One row per task. “Set by” says whose deadline it is; a row set by our suggestion can move, a row set by a lease, a law or an agency is checked against that source. Change any date to the day you will really do it.
How to use this sheet
- One row per task. A task is one thing one person does, with a result you can see: “notice to landlord, emailed”, not “deal with the lease”.
- Set by is the column that matters. A row set by a lease, a regulator, a city, an agency or a company is checked against that source and its date written from it. A row set by our suggestion is a starting point; move it to the day that suits you.
- Dates come from moving day. Setup seeds the rows with dates counted from your moving day. If moving day changes, clear the sheet on the moving binder page and open this page again to re-seed it, or change the dates by hand.
- Give every row a name. The who column is what turns a list into a plan.
The three example rows are Noor Haddad's (fictional): a lease notice set by her lease (60 days, fictional lease terms), a truck and helpers reserved four weeks out as our suggestion, and an elevator reservation set by her new building. The first row has no date in the example on purpose: its date comes from her lease, not from this calendar.
The calendar's weeks are our suggestion except where a row names who set the deadline. A lease, a closing agreement, a building or a state law can set a different date, and the source decides, not this sheet. No agency sets a lead time for booking a mover. The calendar does not tell you whether you can still meet a deadline or what happens if you miss one; the lease, the agency or a lawyer does.