PREPARE BEFORE YOU HAVE TO
Make it easier for someone to step in.
A practical way to organize the information another person would actually need if you were sick, hospitalized, traveling, dealing with an emergency, or simply unavailable for a while.
This is not a giant death binder.
You do not have to document your entire life. Start with the things someone would need to keep your household functioning for a few days: who to call, what the pets need, where important information lives, what gets paid, and what should never be guessed at.
The goal is not completeness. The goal is a usable starting point.
WHAT SOMEONE ACTUALLY NEEDS TO KNOW
Three places to start.
People
Who should be contacted first? Who knows the house? Who can help with pets, transportation, mail, or appointments?
Pets
What do they eat? What medications or routines matter? Who is the vet? Where are leashes, carriers, records, and supplies?
House & money
What bills and services exist? Where are keys, policies, records, and instructions kept? What regular household tasks cannot simply stop?
AVAILABLE NOW
The Household Handoff
A practical organizer built around one question: Could someone run your household for a week if you could not?
It helps you create a clear handoff without turning the process into a hundred-page life inventory.
Ready when you are.
The Household Handoff is a 24-page printable PDF. Use the pages that fit your home, skip what does not, and update it as life changes.
Protect the information that protects you.
Do not put passwords, recovery codes, full payment-card details, or other access secrets in an unsecured printable. These tools are meant to organize where information lives and what another person may need to know. They do not grant legal, medical, or financial authority.
Practical preparation. Support through loss.
Coffee With the Dogs is being built for the before, the immediately-after, and the part where life keeps going anyway.