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The admin you forgot to cancel back home

Elena Popescu 🏆 Community expert
30 Jul 2026, 19:25

A small confession to start this new section. Eight months after moving to Ireland, I discovered I was still paying for a gym membership in Bucharest. Eight months. For a gym I'd visited maybe twice in the year before I left.

Since then I've found two more: a magazine subscription my mother had gifted me, which was renewing itself happily, and a parking permit for a car I sold before the move. None of them were big amounts, but together they annoy me more than I can explain.

So, for everyone planning a move, let's build the list nobody gave us. What did you forget to cancel, close or update back home, and how did you find out?

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Fatima Al-Rashid ⭐ Helpful member
9 Aug 2026, 22:29

School fees for the term after we left, because the notice period was a full term.

Paolo Bianchi ⭐ Helpful member
11 Aug 2026, 11:45

Loyalty card with points I'll never use, which I'm keeping out of pure stubbornness.

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Chris Bennett ⭐ Helpful member
12 Aug 2026, 19:21

The one that surprised me was telling the pension providers and the tax office about the new address. I assumed the bank would pass it on. The bank did not pass it on, and a very important letter went to the old house, where the new owners kindly kept it in a drawer for two months. If anything connected to your income or taxes has your old address, change that first.

Rajesh Patel 🏆 Community expert
14 Aug 2026, 22:48

Chris is right, the letters from officials are the ones that hurt when they go missing.

Aisha Okonkwo ⭐ Helpful member
15 Aug 2026, 16:23

Football club fees for my son kept coming for a whole season he wasn't playing.

Fatou Diallo ⭐ Helpful member
17 Aug 2026, 17:33

library fines. i still owe a library in dakar for a book i packed by mistake

Anna Kowalski 🏆 Community expert
18 Aug 2026, 12:58

Fatou, I think that book is yours now.

Mei Chen ⭐ Helpful member
20 Aug 2026, 12:57

Writing a list tonight before I leave, and I've added "library books" thanks to Fatou.

Elena Popescu 🏆 Community expert
22 Aug 2026, 07:49

Thank you all, this list is much better than mine. I've written it up in two columns, like Jimmy suggested, and found one more of my own: my Romanian bank still had my old address, and my new card had been sent there. So it's not only subscriptions, it's anything that sends you something in the post.

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Marco Rossi 🏆 Community expert
24 Aug 2026, 10:03

Elena, that's the second thread this month where the old address is the villain.