When my husband moves here in August we are planning to go through the whole house and organising everything! We plan to take digital photos (we’ve already taken photos of everything in half the rooms in the house) and make an organised list.
It will be a lovely feeling to be organised and know exactly what we have and where it’s at. In addition, this is veyr important should we ever be victim to a fire or natural disaster. We would need some evidence to prove to the insurance company what we’re out. It will be nice to have evidence of this backed up in a safe place. They say that whenever possible you should include copies or originals of receipts so you can prove when item was purchased and for how much.
I have been lucky enough to never have suffered a total loss of home like that. However, I can imagine how heartbreaking it would be to go through. It would make things a little easier on everyone involved if the insurance bit could be taken care of quickly through use of organised evidence.
For all those reasons Mark and I will be completing this goal this summer, hopefully! Our plan so far is to create Microsoft Word documents of the digital photos and descriptions and then burn the information onto CD’s including any scanned receipts. We will store copy on our computer and another in our fireproof waterproof safe.
We will also give copies of the disk to our family members in other locations (we have family in New York, Ireland, England, Wales, South Africa, Australia oh and even California). This way it should be impossible for us to ever lose the evidence.
Sounds like a plan! I can just imagine some of the further away relatives might get slightly outdated lists. Perhaps each year or so we could send them out a new CD to replace the old. That way any new possesisons can be included.
I also believe there is software we can buy for this. I don’t know anything about it but perhaps it would be better than listing the info on a Word document?
