Dispatches, methodology, and field observations on cataloging the home. Entered, edited, and filed by the Vorby desk.
Assign ownership shared items roommates care about before there is a fight, not after someone is standing in the living room saying, “Wait, I paid for that.” Shared homes collect ambiguous stuff quickly: a couch bought by three people, a co…
Quick answer. You can name maybe 40 things you own. The rest sits in a camera roll you cannot search. The best home inventory app turns room photos into a searchable list with an export you can hand someone. Photo-first on iPhone or the web…
Receipts for home inventory are not all equal. A couch receipt, a contractor invoice, a laptop order confirmation, and a grocery-store slip for batteries do not deserve the same attention. The useful question is not “Should I keep every rec…
To document appliances for insurance, capture high-value items before receipts, serial numbers, warranties, landlord ownership notes, roommate payments, or delivery records disappear. A refrigerator, washer, dryer, range, freezer, dishwashe…
A roommate household supplies checklist works best when it is more than a list taped inside a cabinet. It should tell everyone what the house shares, where backup stock lives, when to restock, who buys next, and how receipts get settled. Th…
Inventory app couples merging households searches usually start after the first awkward moment: two sofas, three sets of dishes, five lamps, one inherited dresser, and no shared language for what stays, what goes, and what belongs to whom. …
Digital home inventory estate planning work starts with a simple truth: your will can say who should receive your belongings, but your family still has to know what those belongings are, where they are, what matters, and what should happen …
Quick answer. Stand in a room, photograph what is already there, and turn those photos into a searchable list. That is a home inventory with photos. You do not start from a blank spreadsheet. You start from the counter, the open drawer, the…
Roommate move-in inventory is one of those practical habits that feels unnecessary on the happy day everyone gets keys. The apartment is empty, everyone is optimistic, and the group chat is still full of furniture measurements and pizza pla…
Photo inventory vs app renters is not just a question of convenience. For renters, the better choice depends on what you need the record to prove: what you owned, what condition the rental was in, what belonged to whom, and what you can rec…
Vorby is a careful record of what you own. The journal is the slow-print companion — the catalog itself is faster.