The two things a household looks for first are a phone number and a piece of paper, and both tend to live in the one drawer nobody labeled. This free printable puts them in order. Page 1 is an emergency contact list with ten write-in rows: name, relation, phone. Page 2 is a locator for the papers: five lines naming what each document is and where it lives, plus one backup note. Print both, fill them in during one calm hour, and put them where the household can reach them. It is the starter of a free emergency binder checklist; the full binder grows from here.
How to use this page: print both pages at 100% scale (the site chrome drops out on paper). Page 1: fill the contact rows in call order, whoever picks up goes in row 1, and write the relation (daughter, neighbor, workplace) so a caller knows who they reached. Page 2: one line per paper, what it is and where it lives, then the backup note for where copies sit. Tape page 1 where everyone looks and keep page 2 with the papers. When a number or a folder changes, cross out and rewrite; the sheet expects it. Nothing here is dated by year, so the sheets keep working until the household changes.
Ten rows, one line each, blank on purpose. The binder's own contact page works the same way: ten roles, one line each, so the list covers the whole household circle instead of the three numbers one person remembers. The relation column is what makes the sheet usable by someone else; "Priya, nearby neighbor, holds a spare key" reads fine months later, "Priya" alone does not.
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Emergency contact list
| # | Name (write in) | Relation | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 3 | |||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | |||
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Fits A4 and US Letter at 100%. Grayscale prints fine. The contact page inside the full binder (page 6) adds the local emergency number and a reminder to copy the finished list where everyone looks first.
The binder's master document index gives twenty rows to the papers that matter: the original's location, where a copy sits, and what expires when. This sheet starts the habit with five. One line per paper is enough to break the "which drawer was it" search, and the backup note is where copies get recorded, because a document with a copy somewhere else is a document a household can afford to lose.
Matchbook Labs · free printable
Where the papers are
Document locator · 5 lines · what it is, where it lives
Backup note · where copies sit
Opinions from keeping sheets like this, take or leave:
The two sheets above are the first pages of a longer record. The companion is the Emergency Doc Binder, a 20-page printable for one household. From its own documentation:
A 20-page printable record for one household: where the papers are, who to call, which accounts exist and when they renew, and what to grab if you have to leave in ten minutes. Nothing in it is dated by year, so the binder works until the household changes.
Inside the 20 pages: a household-at-a-glance page (address, members, vehicles, pets, and where the binder itself lives), a twenty-row master document index with expiry columns, the ten-role contact page described above, write-in household account pages that print the account types and leave provider names to you, a twelve-slot renewal calendar with a remind-me column, a password-hints page that carries hints only, a shutoffs-and-quick-facts page for writing down locations once, a household meeting plan, a fifteen-item go-folder checklist, a per-person document checklist, pet and care notes, an annual review log, a where-things-are inventory for spare keys and the USB drive with scans, and lined notes pages. Two PDFs ship in the download, the same 20 pages for A4 and US Letter, print at 100% scale, double-sided long-edge, margins that fit a standard hole punch. The pages print in a slate palette with a calm red accent, and grayscale keeps every line readable. Example entries are labeled as examples, so you write over them.
This page is a contact sheet: ten rows for people, five lines for papers, one backup note. It records where things are and who to call. It holds no advice on what to own, sign or decide, and none of the rows tell a household which documents it should have. The binder it starts is an organizational tool only.
One printable binder: contacts, document index, accounts, key dates, go-folder. 20 pages, A4 + Letter, instant download. Personal use; print copies for your own household.
More sheets in the same set: the emergency document checklist covers seventeen papers with a location column, and the emergency contact card printable folds the same call list into a wallet card and a fridge information sheet.
Household organization, not medical, legal or financial advice. The sheets record phone numbers and paper locations; questions about documents belong with the professional who made them.