The 20-minute home inventory: How to document your belongings before you actually need to

Hey there, I'm Neha, COO at Siftr. I have a specific fear that surfaces now and then.

Maybe it's because I'm an immigrant who did years of paperwork to enter and stay in the U.S. I still sometimes wake in a cold sweat, sure I've lost my passport and will have to start that paperwork over.

I also have a toddler, and the mundane things related to her, like her finger paintings, the photos of her grinning ear to ear, her favorite cup, now carry the same weight as my immigration documents and my wedding photos. Every few months, usually late at night, the same thought surfaces: if the big one hits, or the hills catch fire, I have no record of any of it.