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The free ten-page Home Binder Starter
Ten printable pages that turn a pile of documents into a binder you can hand to somebody else. US Letter, dark ink with light shading and no solid color blocks, made to be filled in with a pen.
What is in the ten pages
Binder cover
Write in the family name and the year.
Start Here
How to build the binder in one evening, step by step.
Section Tab Labels
Six labels, ready to cut out.
Master Document Inventory
What the document is, where the original lives, whether a copy exists.
Keep or Shred
Retention periods from IRS and FTC guidance, plus a few common-practice lines.
Emergency Contacts
One page for the refrigerator door.
Household at a Glance
Policies, utilities, the accounts tied to the house.
Medical One-Pager
Medications, allergies, doctors.
Monthly Bills Tracker
What goes out, when, from which account.
Password & Accounts Log
On paper, in the binder, not on a note on the phone.
What it is not
There are no legal forms in here — no will, no power of attorney, no medical directive. Rules differ by state. An attorney can prepare a will or power of attorney. For a medical directive, ask your doctor, hospital or state health department which form is valid where you live. The binder keeps track of where the real, signed documents are.
How people print it
US Letter, one-sided, plain paper. Nothing on the page is a solid color block, so a home printer gets through all ten pages without eating a cartridge. Three-hole punch margins are already built into the left edge.
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