Papers in Order
The Home Binder Family Kit
Eighty-four printable pages that take a family's paperwork from a drawer full of envelopes to a binder somebody else could pick up and use. US Letter, print at home, one payment of $19.
The free starter is ten pages, and it is enough to begin. This is the whole binder: the medical section you hand a paramedic, the document inventory that survives a house fire, the money pages that let one person take over the bills, and a section for the part nobody wants to write down — where things are and who to call first.
Get the 84-page Home Binder Family Kit
One payment of $19. Printable PDF, US Letter. The download link is emailed to you the moment the payment goes through.
Buy the kit — $19Card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, through Stripe. Refunded within 14 days if you ask — see the terms.
What is inside
| Section | Templates | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Front of the binder | 5 | Cover, contents, a plan for the first week, tab labels. |
| Grab First | 6 | The pages that matter in an emergency: contacts, the hospital page, the go-bag list, the pets. |
| Medical | 9 | Medications, health history, providers, appointments, vaccinations, insurance. |
| Important Documents | 10 | What you have, where the original lives, what to keep and what to shred. |
| Money | 10 | Accounts, bills, autopay, income, debts, cards, taxes. |
| Home | 8 | Maintenance, service people, appliances and warranties, an inventory for an insurance claim. |
| Digital Life | 5 | Passwords on paper, devices, the accounts tied to a phone number. |
| Everything My Family Needs to Know | 10 | Where things are, who to call first, wishes, a letter. |
| Caring for a Parent | 8 | The care team, the schedule, a daily log, medications by hour, what to check on a visit. |
Some of the pages
Why the pages look plain
Dark ink, light shading, no solid color blocks. A home printer gets through eighty-four pages without emptying a cartridge, and a page filled in with a ballpoint pen stays readable when somebody photocopies it at a hospital desk. Three-hole margins are built into the left edge.
What it is not
There are no legal forms here — no will, no power of attorney, no medical directive. Those are written by an attorney, and the rules differ by state; for a medical directive, ask your doctor, hospital or state health department which form is valid where you live. This kit records where those signed documents are and what is in them, which is the part families actually cannot find.
It is also not filled in for you. Every page is blank and meant to be written on by hand.
Where the rules come from
When a page states a rule — how long to keep a tax record, what a bank needs to release a safe deposit box — the page names the agency the rule comes from, so you can check it yourself. IRS, FTC, SSA, Medicare and the CFPB do most of that work here.
How you get it
Pay, and the download link is emailed to you within a minute or two from Papers in Order, hello@papersinorder.com. The link keeps working for thirty days, so you can come back and print a page again. If the email has not arrived, check the Promotions and Spam folders first, then write to us — the file gets sent by hand.
If it is not what you expected
Ask for a refund within fourteen days and you get one, no questions and no form to fill in. Write to hello@papersinorder.com. The terms say the same thing in fewer words.
Get the 84-page Home Binder Family Kit
One payment of $19. Printable PDF, US Letter. The download link is emailed to you the moment the payment goes through.
Buy the kit — $19Card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, through Stripe. Refunded within 14 days if you ask — see the terms.