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Free printable forms for the house: an emergency contact sheet for the wall, babysitter and pet sitter information, a home inventory for insurance, and a cleaning schedule split by how often each job needs doing.
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Paper is the point
These are the documents that fail when they live on a screen. An emergency contact sheet is needed by whoever is standing in the kitchen, not by whoever owns the phone. A sitter sheet is needed by someone who does not have your passwords. A home inventory is needed when the house has been burgled or flooded, which is exactly when the laptop is gone.
Everything here is designed to be filled in by hand once and left somewhere findable, which is why the row height is adjustable: handwriting varies more than type does.
The forms on this page
- Emergency contacts. The one sheet that must be on the wall rather than in a phone. In an emergency the person who needs it is often not the person whose phone it is on.
- Babysitter sheet. Written once and reused. The value is in the ordinary details, since a sitter can work out bedtime but cannot guess which light stays on.
- Pet sitter sheet. Pets cannot explain their own routine, and a sitter guessing at portions is the commonest thing to go wrong. Write the amounts down.
- Home inventory. Insurers ask for this after a loss, which is the worst moment to compile it. One room per sheet, filled in slowly, is the version that actually gets done.
- Cleaning schedule. Splitting jobs by how often they need doing is what stops a cleaning list becoming an impossible single day.
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Frequently asked questions
Because in an emergency the person who needs the number is often not the person whose phone it is on, and a locked phone is no use to a neighbour, a babysitter or a paramedic. A sheet on the fridge is readable by anyone in the house, works with a flat battery, and does not need a passcode.
The ordinary things, because they are invisible to whoever lives there. Bedtime gets written down; which light stays on, which door sticks, and what the dog does at nine o’clock do not. Those are the things a sitter cannot guess and will not want to ring about.
Because "a scoop" means nothing to someone who has never seen your scoop, and over or underfeeding is the commonest thing to go wrong with a pet sitter. Write the amount and the times, not the routine as you experience it.
Long before you need it. Insurers ask for one after a loss, which is the worst possible moment to compile it from memory. One room per sheet, done slowly across a few evenings, is the version that actually gets finished, and photographs alongside settle a claim faster than a list alone.