Moving Inventory and Box Log
Know what is in every box and where it is meant to end up, so you can find the kettle on the first night and tell on the day whether anything is missing.
Property records · PR-12
A free printable inventory for boxed storage — box number, where it is, what is in it, whose it is and whether it is being kept.
One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
Print it and write on it
Fill it in type and save
The fillable versions have real form fields — open them in any PDF reader, type into them and save. Printing help.
Know what is in the boxes without going up into the loft, by numbering the boxes and keeping the list on paper.
Anyone with a loft, a garage, a shed or a storage unit full of boxes nobody has opened.
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: What is actually in the boxes in the loft, the garage and the shed, and which box it is in.
Number the boxes, then list them. The point of this sheet is the box number. Numbered boxes with a list on paper turn twenty minutes of rummaging in a cold loft into ten seconds of reading.
Write-on lines: Property · Area · Listed on · Listed by
Table, 12 rows: Box or shelf · Where exactly · What is in it · Whose · Keep, sell or clear · Last opened
Write-on lines: Anything here that should be insured or stored better · Reviewed
Know what is in every box and where it is meant to end up, so you can find the kettle on the first night and tell on the day whether anything is missing.
Get the decision written down and dated, which is where decluttering actually fails — not in the sorting but in the pile that migrates to the garage.
List what you own before you need to, so a claim or a police report starts from a document rather than from trying to remember a burgled room.
The same subject, with a version you can fill in on screen.
Which area you did on which day, so the easy ones are not repeated.
Every structure and piece of furniture outside, with where it stands.
What is in each room, in the order you walked it.
Which rooms and areas have been cleared, by whom and when.
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