A photo of last fall’s filter is not a maintenance log. A household still has four clocks: when the HVAC filter is due, what size it is, what left as a donation, and what you owned if an adjuster calls. AI drafts the SUMIFS and the house-sitter note. Excel or Google Sheets is the paper trail.
This is a buyer-intent map, not a contractor dispatch board and not a filed insurance claim. Tab names and prices come from live Etsy listing copy and the Etsy Open API pulled 2026-08-29. Vendor pricing for ChatGPT and Claude comes from those vendors’ pricing pages the same day. The shipping .xlsx files were not opened from disk this session, so tab names below are from listing copy, not from xl/workbook.xml.
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This week — Labor Day 2026 (Monday, September 7). Fall is the overlooked HVAC-filter window: a summer of AC runtime typically exhausts a spring filter, and a dirty filter meets the first heat call. Home Depot’s Labor Day Savings Event runs through September 9 and includes HVAC tune-ups. Our live Home Maintenance Tracker is still $6.99 — that is the listing price, not a holiday markdown. Use the Filters & Consumables tab so next-due is a formula, not a camera-roll guess.
| Job | Best stack | Cost | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| When it is due | Home Maintenance Tracker | $6.99 | Seasonal Schedule, Filters & Consumables next-due, warranty days left |
| What size / where papers live | Home Reference Binder | $6.99 | 29-page house manual: paint, filter sizes, document locator — not a task log |
| Keep / donate / sell | Home Declutter Spreadsheet | $6.99 | Declutter Log plus a fair-market-value donation tracker |
| What you owned | Home Inventory Printable | $6.99 | Room contents, high-value schedule, claim worksheet — not a declutter kit |
| Room-by-room cleaning | House Cleaning Checklist | $6.99 | 51-page fillable lists already written; companion .xlsx |
| Named remodel | Home Renovation Budget | $7.99 | Room-by-room budget vs actual, contractor quotes, payment schedule |
| Move date / boxes | Moving Planner or Packing Binder | $6.99 | Spreadsheet for budget vs spent; printable for cut-out box labels |
| Whole household pack | Home Maintenance Bundle | $14.99 | Five workbooks: house + declutter + moving + car + pets |
“Was that roof inspection last fall or the fall before?” is how a household reconstructs a year from a camera roll. Each recurring job needs a row: season or month, last done, next due, cost. HVAC filters, water filters, and smoke-detector batteries belong on a consumables sheet whose next-due date is a formula, not a sticky note. Warranty days left belong next to the appliance, not in a drawer of manuals.
Live listing: Home Maintenance Tracker Spreadsheet | Seasonal HVAC Warranty Repair Log Excel Google Sheets — $6.99, listing 4533406672, state active (Etsy Open API, 2026-08-29). Instant download: Excel + Google Sheets workbook plus a Start-Here PDF and an HTML companion. Live attached files named in the listing copy: Home_Maintenance_Start_Here.pdf, Home_Maintenance_Tracker_2026.xlsx, Home-Maintenance-Tracker.html, and Get_The_App.pdf.
The live .xlsx for this listing was not opened from disk this session, so tab names below are from the live listing description, not from xl/workbook.xml. Listing copy names a 12-tab workbook: Start Here; Dashboard (Tasks Due This Month, Overdue Tasks, YTD Maintenance Spend, Appliances Under Warranty, Service Contacts, 1% Home-Value Budget Used, plus Next 3 Seasonal Tasks); Seasonal Schedule (Spring / Summer / Fall / Winter by due month, overdue highlighted); Task Log; Appliance & Systems Inventory (purchase date, warranty length, Days Left on Warranty, Expired flag); Service Providers; Repair & Improvement Log (cost plus a Value-Add flag); Filters & Consumables (next-due date and On Track / Overdue); Home Budget (a 1%-of-home-value annual guideline you type against Task Log + Repair Log spend); Paint & Materials; Sample Data Guide; Leave a Review. Open START-HERE first. Replace the sample rooms and appliances with yours, then log tasks and filter changes as they happen.
Use this file when the problem is “when is it due.” The 1%-of-home-value budget on the Home Budget tab is a planning guideline in the listing copy, not an insurer rule and not a tax figure. The listing copy also states this is a personal organizational tool, not a substitute for professional inspection or contractor work. It is not a house-manual binder (filter size lives there), not a contents inventory for a claim, and not a remodel budget. Compatibility on the live listing: Microsoft Excel (2016 and later recommended), Google Sheets via import of the .xlsx, interactive HTML dashboard in a modern browser, no macros required.
After you close a season, paste task totals only into ChatGPT or Claude for a three-sentence “what is still overdue” note. Do not upload appliance serial numbers, alarm codes, or a scan of the insurance policy.
Get the Home Maintenance Tracker Spreadsheet — $6.99
Knowing the furnace filter is overdue does not tell you whether it is 16×25×1 or 20×25×4. Paint that is “whatever they used in 2019” is how a touch-up becomes a second trip to the store. Where the deed lives is a lookup, not a seasonal task. Folding those facts into the due-date tracker is how both jobs stay half-done.
Live listing: Home Reference Binder Printable | House Manual Warranty Filter Log PDF — $6.99, listing 4536202529, active. Instant fillable PDF plus a companion spreadsheet. The listing copy calls it a 29-page binder across 11 sections, and it states the job in one line: a REFERENCE binder — the household information you look up, not a task-tracking kit.
Listing copy names these sections: Home Profile & House Facts (house facts, utilities); Paint, Finishes & Filter Sizes (paint and finish reference with swatch blocks; filter, bulb, and fixture size reference); Important Document Locator (where papers live, safe / lockbox contents, deed / title / closing detail — locations, not account numbers); Vital Records Index; Household Directory; Renewals & Important Dates; Household Projects & Wishlist; Family Meeting Notes & Decisions Log; Guest & Hosting Info; Spare Key & Access Log; Mail, Packages & Deliveries. The listing copy states it never asks for an SSN, full account numbers, or passwords. Pages are fillable AcroForm fields and still print clean for handwriting.
The same listing copy says this binder does not duplicate the shop’s Cleaning Checklist, Home Maintenance Tracker, Emergency Binder, Chore Chart Kit, or Medical Binder listings. Buy this when the question is “what size / what color / where is the paper.” Do not buy it as a seasonal HVAC log.
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A donate pile that never leaves the garage is not a deduction. A receipt you cannot find in April is not a paper trail. Each item needs an action — Keep, Donate, Sell, or Toss — and donated items need a fair-market value, a date, and an organization. You type those. The sheet sums them. It does not file Schedule A.
This weekend — Labor Day garage-sale window 2026 (Saturday, September 5 – Sunday, September 6). Santa Ana’s city garage-and-yard-sale weekend is Sat–Sun Sep 5–6; Nashville yard-sale listings cluster the same dates; Buffalo’s Great American Garage Sale is Sunday Sep 6. Sort is Keep / Donate / Sell / Toss before the driveway. Our live Home Declutter Spreadsheet is still $6.99 — that is the listing price, not a holiday markdown. Use the Declutter Log so the donate pile is a row, not a garage corner. Donation values you type are a paper trail, not tax advice.
Live listing: Home Declutter Spreadsheet | Keep Donate Sell Tax Log Excel — $6.99, listing 4483586050, active (Etsy Open API, 2026-09-03). Instant Excel + Google Sheets. Live attached files named in the listing copy: Home_Org_Start_Here.pdf, Home_Organization_Tracker_2026.xlsx, Home-Org-Tracker.html, and Get_The_App.pdf. The listing copy calls it a 14-tab file.
Tabs in the listing copy: Start Here; Instructions; Settings (Declutter Goal and Donation Value Goal, plus the shared Room List and Item Categories); Dashboard (Rooms/Zones Done %, Items Decluttered, Donation Value YTD, Active Projects, Overdue Cleaning Tasks, Home Inventory Value); Room-by-Room (Priority, Status, Notes); Declutter Log (Keep / Donate / Sell / Toss plus estimated value); Donation Tracker (fair-market-value log by date and organization — listing copy calls this a paper trail for a Schedule A non-cash donation deduction and tells you to consult a tax professional); Home Inventory (big-ticket belongings with serial numbers and purchase/warranty dates; Warranty Status flags items expiring within 60 days or already expired); Cleaning Schedule; Project Planner (budget vs spent); Storage Map; Maintenance Log; Sample Data Guide; Leave a Review. The Home Inventory tab on this file is a belonging list for the household, not the insurance-documentation binder in Job 4.
Compatibility on the live listing: Microsoft Excel (2016 and later recommended), Google Sheets via import of the .xlsx (listing copy: Excel-native, not a Sheets-only file), interactive HTML dashboard, no macros. The listing copy states this is a personal organizational tool only, not tax or professional advice.
Get the Home Declutter Spreadsheet — $6.99
After a fire, flood, theft, or storm, reconstructing a household from memory is the job nobody wants. A contents inventory built on a calm Saturday is a different file from a keep / donate / sell log. It answers what you owned, what it was worth, and how you prove it — rooms, high-value items, photos, receipts, policy limits versus your estimate. It is not a filed claim.
Live listing: Home Inventory Printable | 29-Page Insurance Documentation Kit — $6.99, listing 4536203229, active. Instant 29-page fillable binder plus a companion spreadsheet. The listing copy states the job: a HOME CONTENTS INVENTORY binder for insurance documentation and claim prep. It also states what it is not: it does not duplicate the Home Organization Tracker, Home Reference Binder, Moving Checklist & Packing Binder, or Home Maintenance Tracker — no keep-vs-toss content, no house-facts pages, no donation-value tables, no packing labels, no repair schedules.
Listing copy names 11 sections / 29 pages: getting started and a room-by-room documentation progress checklist; contents logs for living / dining / family rooms, bedrooms and closets, kitchen / bathrooms / garage / storage; a filled-in contents-log example; high-value schedules (jewelry, watches, art; electronics, tools, collectibles, firearms) with appraisal and rider worksheets; a photo and receipt documentation index plus a digital-backup confirmation; insurance policy information and coverage limits versus estimated value; valuation summaries by room and by high-value category; a claim-filing worksheet and adjuster communication log; an acquisition and disposal log for keeping the inventory current. Fillable AcroForm fields; still prints for handwriting.
Build it before you need it. Paste room totals into a chat only after you strip serial numbers and policy numbers. The file does not call the insurer, does not set a reserve, and does not replace an adjuster.
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A blank “clean the kitchen” line is how Saturday disappears. Room-by-room lists with the tasks already printed — daily, weekly, seasonal — are a different job from HVAC due dates. You work the list. You do not invent one while the mop is in your hand.
Live listing: House Cleaning Checklist Printable | Room By Room Deep Clean Fillable PDF — $6.99, listing 4535490865, active. Instant download, four files, no ZIP: US Letter, A4, and A5 fillable PDFs (51 pages each) plus a Cleaning Tracker Companion .xlsx. Listing copy: the PDF text on the pages is not editable (not a Canva template); every form field is fillable; pages still print for handwriting. Companion spreadsheet tabs in the listing copy: Instructions, Dashboard, Daily Log, Weekly Summary, Room Coverage.
Be exact about compatibility. The listing copy says the companion .xlsx is tested in Excel and has not been verified inside Google Sheets. If Sheets is your only editor, do not assume this companion imports the way the Excel-native trackers in Jobs 1 and 3 do. The listing copy also states sales are final as an instant download, with a file-fix if something is wrong — still paired with the shop’s Love Guarantee language on this listing.
Use this for housekeeping. It is not a substitute for the Home Maintenance Tracker (filters, warranties, repairs) and not a chore-chart kit for kids. A separate live listing, Chore Chart Printable Kit | Kids Allowance & Reward Tracker — $6.99, 4535491029, active — is the age-banded kids / allowance file if that is the pile.
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Three contractor emails and a text thread are not a budget. A named kitchen or bath needs rooms, planned vs actual, quotes side by side, milestones, and a payment schedule. That is a different file from seasonal HVAC. Mixing them is how a $350 faucet becomes an untracked $2,000 line.
Live listing: Home Renovation Budget Spreadsheet | Contractor Quotes Remodel Log Excel Sheets — $7.99, listing 4483368692, active. Instant Excel + Google Sheets. Live attached files named in the listing copy: Renovation_Tracker_Start_Here.pdf, Home_Renovation_Tracker_2026.xlsx, Renovation-Tracker.html, and Get_The_App.pdf. The listing copy calls it a 12-tab file.
Tabs in the listing copy: Start Here; Dashboard (total budget vs actual, variance $ and %, % complete, cost/sqft, contingency remaining, rooms over budget, overdue milestones, plus an investor equity-created callout); Project Setup (property info, total budget, contingency %, square footage, Project Type toggle: Owner-Occupied Remodel or Investment / Rental Rehab — listing copy says the math is identical either way); Room-by-Room Budget; Expense Log; Contractor & Quotes; Timeline & Milestones; Materials Shopping List; Before/After Value (ARV) — purchase + closing + holding + rehab vs after-repair value, equity created, a simple ROI % — listing copy: a quick screening snapshot, not a full BRRRR / cap-rate / DSCR deal analysis, and homeowners doing their own remodel can skip this tab; Payment Schedule; Sample Data Guide; Leave a Review.
Buy this when a named project already has quotes. It is a budgeting template, not a contractor bid, not underwriting, and not the seasonal Home Maintenance Tracker. If you are screening a rental purchase before you bid, that is a different live listing (the Real Estate Deal Analyzer) and is outside this home-ops map.
Get the Home Renovation Budget Spreadsheet — $7.99
A move date in a calendar app is not a budget. A Sharpie on a box is not an inventory. Set the date once; days remaining, budget vs spent, tasks done, and boxes packed should calculate. The spreadsheet does the money. The printable does the labels you tape on the cardboard.
Live listing (spreadsheet): Moving Planner Spreadsheet | Packing List Budget Checklist Tracker Excel Google Sheets Instant Download — $6.99, listing 4533105909, active. Live attached files named in the listing copy: Moving_Planner_Start_Here.pdf, Moving_Planner_2026.xlsx, Moving-Planner.html, and Get_The_App.pdf. Listing copy: an 11-tab workbook — Start Here; Dashboard (Days to Move, Budget vs Spent, Tasks Done %, Boxes Packed; set Move Date once); 8-Week Countdown Checklist (40 pre-loaded tasks; overdue flags); Moving Budget (estimated vs actual across 14 categories); Box Inventory; Utilities & Address Changes; Movers & Quotes; New Home Setup; Packing Supplies (quantities scaled to room count); Sample Data Guide; Leave a Review. Household move planner, not a vacation packing list.
Live listing (printable twin): Moving Packing Binder Printable | Box Labels Checklist Inventory Fillable PDF — $6.99, listing 4536202979, active. Listing copy: 29 fillable pages plus a companion .xlsx. Countdown checklists at 8 / 4 / 2 weeks and moving week; room-by-room packing inventory; a numbered box-contents log with cut-out labels for boxes #1–20; address-change and utilities transfer; mover-quote comparison; moving-day essentials and first-night box; kids and pets on moving day; new-home setup punch list; receipts and deposit log. The listing copy states it does not duplicate the Moving Planner spreadsheet (that one is budget-first) or the shop’s vacation packing-list printable.
Buy the spreadsheet if the problem is budget vs spent and a countdown that recalculates. Buy the binder if the problem is “what is in box #14” on the truck. Buy both if you want the money file and the labels. Do not buy either for a weekend trip.
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ChatGPT Free writes SUMIFS, a seasonal-task reminder, and a one-page house-sitter note. ChatGPT’s pricing page lists a Free plan at $0/month (unlimited text chats with GPT-5.6 Luna, limited tool use). Plus is the paid individual plan for expanded uploads and tools — check ChatGPT’s pricing page for current USD. Totals only — no serial numbers, no policy numbers, no spare-key locations, no alarm codes. Use ChatGPT Free
Claude Free is the better paste target for a full season of task totals plus last year’s same season. Ask it to keep overdue HVAC, donation-value totals, and remodel variance in separate sentences so a donate pile never masquerades as a claim inventory. Claude Pro is $20/month or $17/month billed annually ($200 up front) per Anthropic / Claude pricing (fetched 2026-08-29). Use Claude Free
Google Sheets is the default editor if you do not run Excel. The maintenance, declutter, moving, renovation, vehicle, and pet workbooks in this map are described on their listings as .xlsx downloads with no macros; Drive → Upload → Open with Google Sheets is the path those listings give. Gemini inside Sheets is optional and not required for next-due dates or donation-value sums. Exception: the House Cleaning Checklist companion .xlsx is listed as tested in Excel and not verified in Google Sheets — do not assume that one. None of these listings claim Apple Numbers support; do not use Numbers.
Five trackers in one ZIP — $14.99. Home Maintenance Bundle Spreadsheet | Seasonal HVAC Warranty Repair Excel Sheets (4535475225, active). Listing copy: 5 trackers, 15 files + 1 master guide. Each tracker ships as its own Excel workbook and its own interactive browser dashboard. The five folders named in the listing: 01_Home_Maintenance_Tracker/ (12 tabs — the Job 1 workbook), 02_Home_Organization_Tracker/ (14 tabs — the Job 3 workbook), 03_Moving_Planner/ (11 tabs — the Job 7 spreadsheet), 04_Vehicle_Maintenance_Tracker/ (13 tabs), 05_Pet_Health_Care_Manager/ (13 tabs). Listing copy: 63 tabs total across the five files. Honest scope: two of the five files are the car and the pets, not the house. Buy the set for that whole pack; buy the singles if you only need filters, declutter, or a move.
Vehicle service log — $6.99. Car Maintenance Tracker Spreadsheet | Service Fuel MPG Repair Log Excel Sheets (4483585932, active). Live attached files named in the listing copy: Vehicle_Tracker_Start_Here.pdf, Vehicle_Maintenance_Tracker_2026.xlsx, Vehicle-Tracker.html, Get_The_App.pdf. Listing copy: 13 tabs — Start Here, Dashboard, Vehicle Profiles (up to 5 vehicles), Service Log, Maintenance Schedule, Fuel Log (MPG from last two fill-ups), Repairs & Issues, Insurance & Registration (days-left countdown), Tires, Cost Analysis, Resale & Records, Sample Data Guide, Leave a Review. Independent of the house HVAC file. Printable twin: Car Maintenance Log Printable | 29-Page Glovebox Service Record Book — $6.99, 4536203237, active.
Pet health log — $6.99. Pet Health Tracker Spreadsheet | Dog & Cat Vaccine Vet Visit Medication Log Excel Google Sheets Instant Download (4483585876, active). Live attached files named in the listing copy: Pet_Health_Care_Start_Here.pdf, Pet_Health_Care_Manager_2026.xlsx, Pet-Health-Care-Manager.html, Get_The_App.pdf. Listing copy: 13 tabs — Pet Profiles, Vet Visit Log, Vaccination Record (OVERDUE / Due Soon within 30 days), Medication & Preventatives, Weight & Growth, Feeding & Diet, Grooming Log, Expense Summary, Important Docs & Reminders, plus Start Here, Dashboard, Sample Data Guide, Leave a Review. Organizational tool only — not veterinary advice.
Grab-and-go household facts — $6.99. Emergency Binder Printable | 36 Page Fillable Family Emergency Info Contacts Insurance Kit PDF Instant Download (4535503106, active). Listing copy: 36-page fillable PDF plus companion spreadsheet — ICE contacts, family-member profiles, medical info, insurance and account records, home and vehicle details, a pet plan, supply-kit inventory, communication and evacuation plan. Listing copy: organizational tool only, not medical, legal, insurance, or financial advice; it does not include passwords, end-of-life planning, or step-by-step emergency procedures; call 911 first in a real emergency. This is not the Home Reference Binder (lookup sizes and paint) and not the Home Inventory Printable (contents for a claim).
Love Guarantee on the live listings: 14-day free fix, free small customization, or refund. Custom requests (labels, columns, room list, branding) are offered on the listing copy. Paid customs are by quote; listing menus typically show light custom $15–$29, standard custom $39–$79, and deep custom $89–$149 by scope.
The listings in this map are instant downloads with the Love Guarantee: 14-day free fix, free small customization, or refund. Spreadsheet listings named above ship .xlsx files that the listing copy says open in Excel and Google Sheets, plus a Start-Here PDF and an HTML dashboard you can open in a browser. That HTML file is a local companion, not an App Store app. Printable binders ship fillable PDFs plus a companion .xlsx. You do not have to buy every file. A practical stack is the maintenance tracker plus the reference binder. Add declutter when the garage pile exists, the inventory printable before a claim, renovation only with a named project, and a moving file only with a date.
Home Maintenance Tracker if the filter due date lives in your head. Home Reference Binder if you cannot remember the filter size or the paint. Home Declutter Spreadsheet if the donate pile is still in the garage. Home Inventory Printable before an adjuster is on the phone. Moving Planner when a date is on the calendar. ChatGPT Free for the season-end note. Do not paste serial numbers or spare-key locations into a chat.
Use ChatGPT for formulas, seasonal-task copy, and a one-page house-sitter note. Do not paste serial numbers, policy numbers, alarm codes, spare-key locations, or full insurance PDFs into a consumer chat. Strip identifiers first, or work only from task totals.
Use a seasonal schedule plus a filters-and-consumables log that calculates next-due dates, and an appliance inventory that counts days left on warranty. A live Excel + Google Sheets workbook for that job is the Home Maintenance Tracker Spreadsheet ($6.99) from Smart Files Shop.
No. The tracker answers when a filter is due. The house-manual binder answers what size it is, what paint is on the wall, and where the deed lives. Mixing those jobs in one notes app is how both piles stay empty.
Many households close the season in Excel or Google Sheets: a maintenance tracker for due dates, a lookup binder for sizes and paint, and a declutter log when a donate pile exists. A property-management app is a later step when you have a manager or more doors than you will log. Sheets and Excel are enough for filter due dates, warranties, and donation values.
Yes. ChatGPT lists a Free plan at $0/month (unlimited text chats with GPT-5.6 Luna, limited tool use). Plus is the paid individual plan — check ChatGPT's pricing page for current USD. Claude also has a Free plan; Claude Pro is $20/month or $17/month billed annually per Anthropic's pricing page.