Welcome! Another short and sweet section of the Lists of 42, these three checklists are all about the things in your home needed to keep your home tidy, your clothes clean, and store all your belongings. Here you will find the following individual home inventory templates:
42 Things in Your Laundry Room
42 Cleaning Supplies and Equipment in Your Home
42 Storage Solutions for Your Home
Are you working on your own home inventory project? Are you doing it because you want to catalog and document your personal belongings? Or have you suffered a loss and need to create a home inventory for an insurance claim? Whatever your reason, my hope is that this section about laundry, storage, and cleaning items will go quickly giving you an easy “win” and keep you motivated to move forward.
And if you are, indeed, working on your own home inventory project, these three rooms are just a blip on your radar! The Complete Book of Lists: Room-by-Room Checklists for Your Household Inventory Project is 75 checklists all rolled up into one book for easy reference.
This all-in-one book not only includes these three checklists about “laundry, cleaning, & storage,” but also includes these other parts of your home:
- Main Areas
- Bedrooms and Bathrooms
- Kitchen
- Bonus Areas and Extras
- Home Office
- Holiday
- Garage and Storage
- Garden and Outdoors
You’ll have the complete set of home inventory templates at your disposal to help you get started.
Learn From My Household Inventory Experience
I create lists of 42 for home inventory purposes. I do this because we lost our home in a devastating wildfire in 2007 and after the ash settled, had to create a whole-house inventory for our homeowner’s insurance claim. This exhaustive and overwhelming project took me 9 months to complete working nights and weekends (I had a full-time job, so this had to be accomplished in my “spare time”). My hope in sharing these lists of 42 with readers is that if you, too, have to undertake such a project, my checklists will help you reach your goal.
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. While writing this story was cathartic in many ways, it also led to the creation of what I call my “lists of 42.” 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!
Plus, by limiting each list to 42, it breaks this massive project into more manageable bite-sized tasks. As the saying goes, “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time!”