Organize Your Important Household Papers: Resources and Tools

To learn about Specific Household Papers:

• Record of Important Papers – form for recording your personal information
• Household Inventory – suggestions and form for taking your inventory
• Organize Your Important Papers – lists records according to record keeping locations and types of records, gives reasons for keeping an item and describes how long to keep each record
• Replacing Very Important Papers – gives guidance and contact information

Directory of Important Papers – Coming Soon! The Directory of Important Papers is a decision tool that lists records alphabetically and by type of record. The searchable directory provides useful information for each record including the reason for keeping, where to keep original and copies, how long to keep, and how to replace the item.