Welcome! This section of the Lists of 42 is a challenge – eleven separate lists centered around the holidays and celebrations! In this section, these eleven home inventory lists are organized starting with party supplies followed by specific holidays, then expands from there to include a Thanksgiving dinner shopping list and items on your holiday table. This section includes the following home inventory checklists:
42 Party Supplies for Your Next Party
42 New Year’s Eve Decoration in Your Home
42 Valentine’s Day Decorations in Your Home
42 St. Patrick’s Day Decorations in Your Home
42 Easter Decorations in Your Home
42 Independence Day Decorations in Your Home
42 Halloween Items in Your Home
42 Items for Your Thanksgiving Dinner Shopping List
42 Thanksgiving Items in Your Home
42 Items for Your Holiday Table
42 Christmas Decorations and Holiday Items in Your Home
I’m including the Thanksgiving dinner shopping list because if a loss occurs during a holiday or party, you may have more food in your house than normal and you may have specialty food items in your home that you don’t always buy and have on hand. So, this list is meant to trigger your memory about all the little extras, the seasonal items, like peppermint or pumpkin-flavored coffee, for example.
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This all-in-one book of 75 checklists not only includes the “home office,” 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
- Garage and Storage
- 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.
Losing Our Home to the Witch Fire
We lost our home in a wildfire just before Halloween. I was scheduled to have a Halloween luncheon in my home that next weekend for my girlfriends and had decorated the first floor of our home with Halloween decorations everywhere – bats hanging from the ceiling over the dining room table, a Halloween village set up in our living room, and cute knick-knacks strewn around including our Madame Zelda talking crystal ball.
We evacuated the night before with the wildfire heading our way, east from the mountain towns in our county. According to the story we later heard from firefighters, at one point the fire moved past our home burning southwest towards San Diego. The Santa Ana winds escalated between 60 to 100 mph and at one point, the winds shifted and the fire moved back towards our house and burned it to the ground. Many years ago I wrote a series of blog posts on this blog to share our experience with readers. You can read about it beginning here: Any Way the Wind Blows.
Once we moved back into our newly rebuilt home almost a year later, it occurred to me that maybe it would behoove me to start a new home inventory list 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.
These lists of 42 are checklists of the numerous things in and around a house for home inventory purposes grouped together to total 42 in each space. Choosing 42 items to highlight on each checklist was a conscious decision 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 an overwhelmingly large project down into manageable bites. 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.