Personal and family records

Moving House Inventory Spreadsheet

Every box numbered, with what is in it, which room it came from and which room it is going to — plus a count of what has arrived and what has been unpacked.

Download the spreadsheet · 14 kB

.xlsx · 3 tabs · opens in Excel, LibreOffice, Numbers and Google Sheets · no sign-up

What it works out for you

How many boxes there are, per destination room
How many have arrived, and how many are still packed
Declared value per room, for the removal insurance
A list of what is still missing after the van has gone

Who it is for

Anyone moving house who would like to find the kettle on the first night.

What is inside

3 tabs: Read me, Boxes, By room. The first is a Read me that explains the file in plain words and says what it deliberately does not contain.

Cells come in two colours. Cream cells are yours to fill in. Grey cells work themselves out — leave them alone unless you want to change the sum, in which case go ahead, nothing is locked.

It opens blank, and that is correct

This is an empty workbook, so every grey cell is empty until there is something to work from. Type into two or three cream cells and the grey ones beside them fill in straight away. If you download it, open it and see nothing but headings, nothing has gone wrong — the sheet simply has no figures yet.

One thing worth knowing: a file preview — in Google Drive, in a phone’s file browser, in Windows Explorer — often shows calculated cells as blank even after you have filled the sheet in, because a preview does not run formulas. Open the file properly in Excel, Numbers, LibreOffice or Google Sheets and the figures appear.

Amounts and figures

Amounts are plain numbers with no currency symbol, so the same file suits any country. Format the column as your own currency if you would rather see one. There are no rates, intervals or targets of ours anywhere in the file — every figure of that kind is a cell waiting for the one that applies to you.

The printable versions

The same job on paper, for a folder or a clipboard. Free PDFs, A4 and US Letter.

Moving Inventory and Box Log

Know what is in every box and where it is meant to end up, so you can find the kettle on the first night and tell on the day whether anything is missing.

MB-02 1 page

Moving House Checklist

Work backwards from the moving date instead of remembering things in the wrong order, and see at a glance what has actually been done rather than what has been worried about.

MB-01 2 pages

Change of Address Checklist

Work through everybody who holds your address, and track the gap between telling them and them acting on it.

MB-11 2 pages

There is a tool for this too

Moving House Checklist Generator — Enter your moving date and get a dated countdown — every task with the real date it falls due.

Questions

Is it really free?

Yes. No sign-up, no email address, no trial. Download it, use it, change it, keep it. The site is paid for by advertising elsewhere on it, not by this file.

Will it work in Google Sheets?

Yes. Google Drive → New → File upload → pick the file, then open it with Google Sheets. Every formula is deliberately a plain one, so nothing breaks in the move.

Does it work in Excel, LibreOffice or Numbers?

Yes. It is an ordinary .xlsx file with no macros and no add-ins. Anything that opens spreadsheets will open it.

Can I change the formulas?

Please do. Nothing is locked or password protected, and the formulas are ordinary ones you can read. If your situation needs a different sum, change the sum.

Are there any figures built into it?

No rates, intervals, targets or thresholds of ours. Where a figure like that is needed there is a cell for you to enter your own, taken from your handbook, lender, insurer or tax authority. We do not know your circumstances and will not guess at them.