Pack Separately Checklist:

Keep Your Valuables Close

  • Address books
  • Airline tickets 
  • Car titles
  • Cash
  • Cell phones Checkbooks
  • Computer data files/backups 
  • Family photographs/photo albums
  • Financial documents (stocks, bonds, CDs, IRAs, deeds, tax records)
  • Home videos  Insurance policies
  • Jewelry and furs
  • Keys (car, furniture, new home)
  • Laptop computers, Medical/dental records
  • New home documents Prescription medicin
  • Professional files/research projects
  • School records

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