Other than organizing all my material goods, I’ve been making a home inventory to document all of my things. The reason I started doing this is mainly because of insurance purposes. I suppose there are many ways to do this but here is my way.

Using a smart phone, I’ve actually been taking photographs of the more expensive things such as computers, TV, etc, and uploading them into a notebook in Evernote. For security sake, I take photographs of both the item and the serial number as it appears on most electronics.

Then yesterday afternoon, as I was cleaning out my bookmarks on my web browser, I found a very helpful web app. It’s ikeepm.com. There you can list all the things you own and put them into categories. The website neatly collects all the information, including the item’s value, and then you can export them to a csv file, which you can open in Excel or LibreOffice. So in addition to Evernote, I have a secondary way of making a home inventory – a more complete inventory.

Using ikeepm, I did the best I can in getting a value of all of my things, excluding the car, cash, and my bank account. It turns out that my material wealth is around $20,000 to $25,000. What is your material wealth?

Possessions – Feb 2014

I turned 30 yesterday.

I will turn 40 in ten years. I wonder if we will still be fighting terrorists. I want to know the poverty rates in third world countries. I wonder if we eradicated most of the curable diseases. How will the climate have changed. Will there be a water shortage. What the population will be for the human race. How are the polar bears doing. What percent of the population are in prisons and what is the breakdown of the charges. Can I grow marijuana legally. What is the fuel efficiency of a typical car. I want to know the cost of a college education in 2024. What things can robots do in ten years. How much can my hard drive hold. The screen size of a TV. I want to know how much is my annual salary. Where have I been to in the world. What have I learned in ten years. Who will still be my friends. How is my family doing. What is the ticket price of going into space. Which country is the most powerful. I wonder if we still have countries. What will be the newest religion. Will people be more tolerant. I want to know the sounds of the most popular music. What will be my favorite movie. What is the primary source of energy. Have we found an anti-aging drug. What will cell phones look like. How many shootings in 2024. How many species have gone extinct. Will everyone have equal rights. What will google.com look like. Are we still be using computers. How fast will the Internet connection be. What is the newest sport. Are we still producing military weapons. My own DNA. The latest fashion. Newest foods. Coolest gadgets. I wonder will I even care for any of these things. What will be my state of mind ten years from now. Will I even be alive.