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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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Ahmed Hassan ⭐ Helpful member
26 Aug 2026, 18:49

Electricity at the old flat, which the landlord kept in my name for six weeks after we left.

Joy Villanueva ⭐ Helpful member
29 Aug 2026, 18:56

Adding the column idea to my own list for when I finally move out of my housing.

Diego Fernandez 🏆 Community expert
1 Sept 2026, 15:28

To close the loop on the Argentinian tax registration: I sorted it, with an accountant back home, and it took three months and a lot of documents to prove when I'd left. If anyone reading this is still in the planning stage, do the "notify" list before you get on the plane, not after. It's much easier to sign things when you're still there.

Linda Svensson ⭐ Helpful member
3 Sept 2026, 19:58

Top of our list now: Diego's last point.