Living Out Of A Hotel Room...

This is a picture of a room that is slightly larger then the one we are in here at the Homewood Suites,Last-Minute Deals!.  I believe this is one of the two bedroom suites.  We are in a one bedroom suite. There are no 2 bedroom suite available right now. There is myself, my husband, our 12 year old twin girls, and the two dogs.  The cat is still at the house, being kept in a room that wasn't touched by the fire, or the flood.  We go see her everyday, and make sure she has food and water, and clean litter, and spend a little time there petting her, and giving her some attention.  We have to go back to the house everyday, as our Mastiff, will not go to the bathroom anywhere, except his own backyard.  Go figure. 

I woke this morning to the sun shining, and birds chirping.  Normally this would be a welcoming sound.  Right now, not so much.  It is only a reminder that I cannot plant my spring flowers, or start a garden, work on getting some outdoor spring clean up done.  No, we live in a hotel room.  I miss my house.  I miss waking up in the morning, going out to the kitchen and grabbing my favorite coffee mug, and pouring a hot cup of coffee.  I miss looking out the windows of our sunroom, watching the dogs play, curled up in my favorite chair.  I miss everything about my house. 

I try not to think about that it may be as much as six months before we are able to get back into our house, it's just too depressing.  If we are not at the house cleaning, and going through things, we are in the hotel room, listing out everything we owned in a spreadsheet.  Trying to remember every little thing we had is exhausting.  Everything has to be listed out, and itemized, one by one.  I am now going on day five of doing this.  Pictures are a must.  You can't possibly remember everything without pictures.  Just when I thought I had everything, I went through the pictures again, and found about 2 dozen additional items that I had forgotten about.  I have taken just about 1500 pictures, and have looked at every single one of them and more than once. 

I have a feeling that the pictures will be coming in handy once we turn this spreadsheet in to the insurance company.  I have a sneaking feeling they are going to call on several entries that have been listed.  For instance, I think they will be calling on the 35 cans of tomato sauce, or the 20 packages of egg noodles, or the 500 coathangers, or the 26 bottles of shampoo and conditioners.  I don't think they realize that I am a deal finding shopper.  One of the hardest parts of putting this spreadsheet together, was pricing the items.  Yes I get these items when they are on sale, and pay next to nothing for many items, however now I need to replace these, and I may have to pay full price for these items.  So I had to realize that I needed to put in the regular prices, not the prices that I paid for these. 

My biggest delimma was and still is, what price do I put on my coupon binder?  Do I list the price of just the binder, or do I list the price of the binder, and all the coupons inside?  I had  A LOT of coupons.  Keyword there is HAD.  I now have to work on getting my coupon stach back up to where it was.  Do you know anyone that has been in this situation?  If anyone has any thoughts on how I should list the vaue of my coupons, I would greatly appreciate it.