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Home inventory
I live in an apartment building in which one of the other units caught fire (grease fire on the stove that went out of control) yesterday evening. No one was hurt and the fire was contained to that unit, but that unit isn't inhabitable now and the rest of us have had a shock.
I have renter's insurance, with my most expensive items (my laptop and upright piano) itemized separately, but I'm now motivated to make sure that it would do what I want it to do if anything happened to my apartment. I'm going to call the insurance agency this week to make sure I understand how the policy works, and I'm going to start working on a home inventory, which seems like something that can be combined well with one cupboard per day.
( Home inventory tips )
Some of that is advice for people who have more stuff than I do (guns, boats, ha ha ha), but if my apartment is small and I don't have that many possessions, that means it won't take me as long to make records.
My goal now is to tidy up one area every day, and to photograph it and collect any other records. Since I'll now have in mind "what would I want to replace if this all burned?" (ugh), maybe that will make it easier to declutter, too...
I have renter's insurance, with my most expensive items (my laptop and upright piano) itemized separately, but I'm now motivated to make sure that it would do what I want it to do if anything happened to my apartment. I'm going to call the insurance agency this week to make sure I understand how the policy works, and I'm going to start working on a home inventory, which seems like something that can be combined well with one cupboard per day.
( Home inventory tips )
Some of that is advice for people who have more stuff than I do (guns, boats, ha ha ha), but if my apartment is small and I don't have that many possessions, that means it won't take me as long to make records.
My goal now is to tidy up one area every day, and to photograph it and collect any other records. Since I'll now have in mind "what would I want to replace if this all burned?" (ugh), maybe that will make it easier to declutter, too...