A Free Household Handover Starter
Two pages a trusted person could read on the day you are not there to be asked. Who to contact, and where things are kept.
Think about the ordinary questions rather than the dramatic ones. Who is the landlord and what is the number. Which vet, and is the cat on anything. Where is the boiler service record. You know all of that, and on the day somebody else needs it you may be in hospital, abroad, or simply unreachable for two days.
What this is
Three A4 pages, free, and yours to use for your own household.
Page one says what the starter is for, how to fill it in, and the one rule that matters: leave passwords out. It also says plainly what it is not, which is legal, financial or medical advice.
Page two is the household-at-a-glance sheet. Who lives here, who the primary and backup contacts are, dependants, pets, and where the original documents are stored.
Page three is the emergency contact sheet: person or service, why you would call them, the number, and a backup.
Print them, or write on the file in a compatible annotation app.
Why it asks for locations rather than passwords
Plenty of well-made free templates include fields for usernames and passwords, and it is an understandable choice, because that is genuinely what somebody taking over would want.
But the moment the sheet holds live credentials it has to be locked away from exactly the people it was written for, and a sheet nobody can reach is not a handover. So this one asks where the account is and who knows about it. "Barclays current account, statements in the grey folder, Dad has the details" tells a trusted person what to do next without being a document that empties an account if it is photographed on a kitchen table.
Keeping passwords out does not make the rest safe. A completed sheet still holds names, numbers, addresses and dependants' details. Decide deliberately who has a copy and where it lives.
You fill it in privately
We never see it. You do not send it to us, we do not ask for it, and the form below asks for nothing except an address to send the file to. Do not put passwords, financial identifiers, health details or anything from a completed sheet into any form on this site.
Where these pages come from
Pages two and three are pages 5 and 7 of The Just-in-Case Family Records Binder, unchanged. They are the two the guide tells you to start with, and they are already on that product's page as previews, so you can see them before asking for anything.
The binder is the longer version: a health and care index, important documents, home and property, a financial index, insurance, work and business, a digital account index and devices, people to notify, preferences and practical wishes, and a review log. 63 A4 pages, $12.99. The starter is genuinely useful without it, which is the point of giving it away.
The full guide these pages came out of is free to read, with no address at all.