The part nobody tells you about moving
A family move is around 200 tasks over 18 months, and most of them live in one person's head. Here's why that happens, and what we're doing about it.
Ask anyone who has moved their family, across town or across an ocean, what the hardest part was. Almost nobody says the boxes.
They say the remembering. The school enrolment deadline that only one of you knew about. The insurance policy that lapsed mid-move. The 3am jolt of "did we ever cancel the broadband?"
The invisible workload
A typical family move breaks down into roughly 200 tasks spread over 18 months. Some are obvious (book the movers), some are quiet landmines (get the dog's vaccination records apostilled). The problem isn't any single task. The problem is that the full list rarely exists anywhere except in one very tired brain.
That person becomes the move's single point of failure. When they're stretched, things slip. When things slip, they cost money, and moving is already expensive: an international move typically runs a family north of £27,000.
What a calm move looks like
We think the fix is boring on purpose:
- One shared list. Every task, deadline, and document in a place the whole household can see.
- The money, tracked. Estimates against quotes against what you actually spent.
- The boxes, findable. So "where are the school uniforms?" has an answer on day one.
That's what we're building with Don't Panic. If moving is on your horizon, join the waiting list below and we'll save you a spot.