The Home Disaster First 72 Hours Kit
Your policy already requires an itemized list of anything you lose, with values and receipts, and almost nobody builds that list until the week the proof is gone.
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What’s inside
- A printable kit in seven parts: the action guide, the checklists, the scripts and letters, the worksheets, the decision tools, resources and next steps, and the home inventory and claim evidence spreadsheet.
- The home inventory and claim evidence spreadsheet, in Excel and Google Sheets with the formulas already in, and the columns insurers actually ask for: quantity, description, make and model, serial number, year bought, what it cost.
- The action guide that sets the order and gives the reason for every step: read your own policy first, including what loss of use pays and why flood is a separate policy, then photograph and list one room a night, then store a copy where the fire is not.
- Scripts and letters as separate, editable Word files, decision tools for the calls only you can make, and a resources section that names the free official sources and says when to hire.
- A one-page card so whoever is home knows the first three days in order, and a review date once a year. Four files: a start-here PDF, US Letter, A4, and the editable set. No app, no subscription, no account to create.
Who this is for
Photos prove the room existed. They rarely prove what a thing was or what it cost, and those are the questions the insurer asks. So the kit starts with one evening on your own policy, what it actually pays and the gaps you can still fix, then one room a night for a week or two, into a spreadsheet with the right columns already built.
There are no dates in it, so there is nothing to fall behind. The version people finish beats the version people plan.