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22 articles on home-inventory.
Life events·
Disaster Preparedness: Document Your Home Before the Season
Bushfire, flood, and storm seasons arrive on a schedule. The window to document your home is now, while it is still standing and everything is still in it.
Insurance claims·
Claims That Fell Short: The One Document That Would Have Changed Each
A pattern of contents claims that paid out far less than the loss, and the single piece of evidence that would have changed each one. The stories are composite, the patterns are real.
Privacy·
Is It Safe to Record a Video of Your Home?
A video of everything you own is sensitive data. Before you hand it to any app, it is worth knowing where it goes, who can see it, and what happens to it. Here is what to ask.
Home inventory·
How Often Should You Update Your Home Inventory?
A home inventory only protects you if it is reasonably current. Here are the simple triggers for updating it, and how to keep it fresh without it becoming a chore.
Collections·
Insuring Musical Instruments
A guitar, a violin, a saxophone: instruments hold value that depends on maker, age, and condition. Here is how to document them and why a specialist valuation matters.
Life events·
Creating a Record of Belongings for Family and Executors
When someone dies, their executor has to work out what they owned, often with no record at all. A simple inventory made in advance spares the family a painful guessing game.
Home inventory·
Can ChatGPT Make a Home Inventory for Insurance?
It will produce a list. But you will work harder than you expect for a worse record, and when you are done you will be holding a document you made yourself, which is exactly what a contents claim is built to discount.
Collections·
Proving the Value of Collectibles
Vinyl, comics, trading cards, and sneakers can be worth far more than they look. Here is how to prove value and provenance so a collection holds up at claim time.
Insurance claims·
What Makes a Home Inventory Count as Evidence
Most home inventories are not evidence. They are assertions. The difference is not how detailed the list is, it is whether anyone other than you can confirm it, and that difference decides your payout.
Collections·
Documenting Camera Gear for Insurance
Bodies, lenses, and accessories add up fast, and each one has a serial number that makes a claim easy to prove. Here is how to document a camera kit properly.
Life events·
Why You Should Do a Home Inventory When Moving House
Moving is the one time everything you own passes through your hands. It is the perfect moment to document it, for the move itself and for the years after.
Home inventory·
What People Always Forget in a Home Inventory
The big items are easy to remember. The forgotten ones are where underinsurance comes from. Here is the long tail of belongings people leave out.
Collections·
How to Document an Art Collection for Insurance
You do not need to be a gallery to document art and prints properly. Here is how to record artists, editions, provenance, and condition so a claim reflects what you actually own.
Insurance claims·
Claiming From Memory After a Fire: The 2am List Problem
After a house fire, the insurer asks you to list everything you lost. You do it from memory, at the kitchen table of a place that is not your home. Here is what that is actually like.
Collections·
How to Document and Insure a Wine Collection
A wine collection changes value as it ages and as the market moves. Here is how to document provenance, cellar conditions, and bottles so a claim reflects what you actually hold.
Collections·
How to Document and Insure a Watch Collection
A watch collection is easy to underdocument and hard to claim for without records. Here is how to capture references, serial numbers, and papers, and when a specialist valuation matters.
Home inventory·
The Best Home Inventory Apps for Insurance (2026)
A clear, honest look at the home inventory apps people use to document their contents for insurance, and how they compare on the things that matter when you actually need the record.
Underinsurance·
Why We Always Underestimate What We Own
Ask anyone what their belongings are worth and they will guess low. There is a predictable psychology behind it, and knowing it is the first step to getting the number right.
Home inventory·
Photo vs Video vs Spreadsheet: The Best Way to Document Your Home
There are three common ways to make a home inventory. Most people abandon two of them. Here is an honest comparison of each, and which one actually gets finished.
Home inventory·
Home Inventory Checklist: Room by Room
A complete room-by-room checklist of what to include in your home inventory, so the small things that add up to thousands do not get missed.
Home inventory·
How to Create a Home Inventory: A Complete Guide
A home inventory is the single best record you can have before a fire, flood, or burglary. Here is how to make one properly, and how to make one fast.
Home inventory·
How to Do a Home Inventory Without Losing Your Mind
You've been meaning to do this for years. Here is how to actually get it done, with practical tips that work whatever method you choose.