Monday, December 31, 2007

Preparations in order to travel

What should a person do after they submit their dossier and are waiting? some things are obvious, such as prepare the nursery. But there are other things too.

You may get your LOI and have only a few days to travel. So you should know about and plan for things will need to be taken care of while you are away. You'll need to plan for pets, children, the home, work, paying bills, etc.

I've put together a few excel spreadsheets to help us plan. Please note that most of these documents have multiple worksheets.
  • The Away from Home document has a calendar for expected bills to anticipate which you can edit and personalize. Remember, when you add columns or rows, the sum cells will probably not recognize that you have done so, so please check that the totals are true.
  • The Financial Worksheet helped us do budgeting for the financial forms in all our dossiers.
  • I will add a Packing List here
  • I will add a To Do list here

1 comment:

Patrick & Eileen said...

Was a *to do* list ever created? If so, I'd love to see this :) We have our personal list - well Pat just presented it to me - and I was wondering if we might be missing something? You never know what other things people come up with?