Oh yeah, I guess I still need to do today’s discardia…
Change the battery in your smoke alarm and test any other warning and safety equipment in your home and car.
Did that in both smoke alarms recently, we do need to replace our carbon monoxide detector…
Do you have appropriate fire extinguishers in good, charged condition in the kitchen and at least one other place in the house? (I keep my extra in the bathroom because it’s not an area likely to spontaneously combust and it’s by the front stairs and therefore handy for an emergency escape).
One in the kitchen. I guess it might be a good idea to have another one, but I dunno, it’s kind of a small house… do we need a second?
Do you have renter’s or home insurance and an up-to-date inventory of the things you’d want to replace? (Walk around with a video camera for a really quick way to do this inventory and then store the tape away from the house, eh?
Home insurance is a requirement with a mortgage, isn’t it? We do have an inventory of stuff, kind of. A really cool idea I heard recently that I do want to do is to take digital pix of your stuff then post them as private in your flickr account (assuming you have one. I do & it’s woefully underutilized since I have /gallery on lepismatidae…). That takes care of storing that stuff off-site. So, there’s something to actually do…
