A lesson learned...

In 1996, my husband and I were living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In Albuquerque, our house, like most homes had security bars on the windows and doors. Unfortunately, the security bars didn't stop the thieves - they just plowed a car through our garage door!

I learned many lessons that day, but mostly that you can never have enough safety measures in place to guarantee your house will be safe. I also learned that when someone breaks into your house, the last thing you can do is sit down and calmly recreate a list of everything that had been in your house before it was robbed. It was months after the insurance claim was settled and we were still realizing things we'd neglected to put on the insurance claim!

After that, I vowed I would not make that mistake again, and I became obsessed with keeping lists and pictures of everything in my house. I have researched home inventories and over the past 10 plus years, I have created a really efficient and effective system to inventory a house!