Welcome! While we may not have a fancy sports car in our garage, we usually have a vehicle or two. Whether an automobile, motorcycle, golf cart, or other similar vehicle, the garage is meant to keep these high-priced items from the elements plus give us a little extra storage.
And store we do! Our garages store a multitude of things and, sometimes, we repurpose a portion or all of our garage into studios and workshops for hobbies or crafts. The next six checklists categorize similar things together to help you remember what you had stored there:
42 Things in Your Garage
42 Things in Your Tool Chest
42 Things in Your Workshop
42 Emergency & First Aid Supplies
42 Different Types of Sports Equipment
42 Types of Camping Gear and Supplies
If you are working on your own home inventory project, whether as a proactive project to document your personal belongings or a reactive task for an insurance claim because of a catastrophic loss, the garage and corresponding storage area are a great place to start. While it is only one area of your home inventory project, more than likely you’ve stuffed it full of different things and checking this area off your “to-do” list will give you great satisfaction!
Here’s a tip: click here for the best value – The Complete Book of Lists: Room-by-Room Checklists for Your Household Inventory Project, – $10.00 for all 75 lists!
This all-in-one book of 75 checklists not only includes the “garage and storage,” but also incorporates these other parts of your home:
- Main Areas
- Bedrooms and Bathrooms
- Kitchen
- Laundry, Cleaning, and Storage
- Bonus Areas and Extras
- Home Office
- Holiday
- Garden and Outdoors
Each of these sections includes several home inventory checklists to help you with your project. You’ll have the complete set of home inventory templates at your disposal in one book for easy reference.
I Know a Thing or Two About Home Inventory…
In October 2007, a massive wildfire, known as the Witch Creek-Guejito-Poomacha Complex Fire roared through San Diego County burning over 240,000 acres and destroying over 1,000 homes. Ours was one of them. Five years later, I wrote a series of blog posts on this blog sharing our experience and you can read it here: Any Way the Wind Blows.
The fire was not fully contained throughout San Diego County until the first couple of weeks in November. And we were not allowed to go back to our property for about a week, until after public utilities crews could cut the power lines.
A few days later, our homeowner’s claims adjuster arrived from Texas to meet us onsite to discuss the steps needed to move forward. One of those steps, a major step, was to create a whole-house inventory list to submit to them in order to process payment for this portion of our homeowner’s insurance claim.
Creating this home inventory list took me nine months to complete. Since I worked full-time, I could only devote nights and weekends to this seemingly never-ending project. Once complete, it was 165 excel spreadsheets rolled up into one excel workbook.
Less than a year later, we moved home to our newly built home. Since we didn’t have much in the way of personal belongings at that time, it occurred to me that maybe it would behoove me to start a new home inventory project because we didn’t have much stuff. And, since we didn’t have much stuff at the time, I thought it would be easier to do. So, compiling these lists of 42 started out as a personal whole-house inventory project of our new home.
Several years later, I started blogging and decided to share my personal progress on my own house inventory project with my blog readers by creating what I call my “lists of 42.” These lists of 42 are lists of different things in and around a house for home inventory purposes grouped together to total 42 in each space. Why 42? I thought it would be cute to “brand” the “4 Two” in the name of my blog!
In addition to branding “42” because of “Toot Sweet 4 Two,” by limiting the lists to 42, it breaks down an overwhelmingly massive project into manageable tasks. By working your way through your home inventory room-by-room and space-by-space, using this home inventory template as a roadmap, you will master the project in less time.