Updated Jun 2026
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The Senior Downsizing
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A practical, room-by-room printable checklist for seniors and families tackling a move. Free — no strings attached.

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We created this checklist after 30 years of helping families go through exactly this process. It captures the questions we wish every family had asked earlier — and the things most people don't think of until moving day. We hope it helps.

Senior Downsizing Checklist

1-page printable PDF · Completely free

Room-by-room sorting guide
Paperwork & legal documents checklist
Address change tracker
Questions to ask the new community
Moving day timeline
Emotional prep reminders

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A mother and daughter sorting family photographs and papers
The hardest room is not a room

Stuck on the photos, letters, and paperwork?

The checklist can tell you to sort sentimental items — it cannot tell you what to do with forty years of photographs. This companion article gives you the working rules: four piles, keep the story instead of the stack, shred paper by default, and a three-question test for keepsakes.

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