A practical checklist for getting your home, car, bills, health, finances and admin sorted before you leave.

Leaving for several months creates a longer list of decisions than a short holiday. What happens to the house and car? Which bills stay running? How will you manage medication, post, banking and phone access?

We created this 10-page checklist while working through those questions ourselves. It gives you one place to record what needs doing, who will handle it and what needs restarting when you return.

What’s inside

• Home and property arrangements
• Car storage, insurance, tax and MOT
• Bills, subscriptions and utilities
• Medication, healthcare and travel insurance
• Banking, payment cards and phone access
• Post and official admin
• Emergency contacts and backup plans
• Return-home planning
• A four-week final review
• Departure-day checks

Each main section has space for your decision, next action, person responsible, deadline, saved confirmation and restart action.

Why We Made This

When you start planning longer-term travel, the exciting part is usually the travel itself. Then you have to work out what happens to everything you leave behind.

We found ourselves asking dozens of practical questions about the house, car, bills, banking and healthcare. So we brought them together in the planning document we wish we had when we started.

This is a practical checklist, not legal, financial, medical or insurance advice. Check the current rules and terms for your own circumstances.

James & Rob