Check with your insurance company to ensure they will accept this. Allstate and Nationwide would not (maybe they do now?) and would only accept orignal invoices or receipts as proof of ownership.

Personally, I would not do business with any insurance company that required you to keep original receipts, or "prove ownership" in some way to file a claim. Mine certainly doesn't. If Allstate and Nationwide pull those kind of stunts they have moved themselves to the bottom of the barrel of insurers.

This holds true of most doccuments where I hail. Marrage cert, birth cert, etc.

If you do not have originals be prepared to pay the department of vital statistics for replacements.

I have a fire/water resistant safe for said doccuments. That however, is not a "low or no cost prep" Those things tend to be rather pricey.

Insurance companies differ.

Jewelry is paid up to a certain amount on your homeowners, usually a pretty low amount. Get riders for expensive items.

Have serial numbers for high dollar items. It's amazing what can be gleaned from a serial number/model number on a TV. The 90 inch tv the insured said he bought last week had the serial number of a 19 inch portable last made in 1982. Of course, scanning the original receipts is good.

Videos and pictures can be faked. Or you could have rented the stuff from someplace, did the pics and returned the stuff. Vids and pics from successive years will more or less prove you owned the stuff. Have a newspaper with the date in the photo/video for reference.

Load all your important data on a flash drive, and keep it someplace not in your house. A safe deposit box, at work in the back of a drawer, at a family member's house - just not a home.

Stuff I learned as a legal NCO working claims against the government.

That is one of the reasons I left both companies.
Funny thing is with my little thermal printer I could fake receipt easier than a picture.

Some might disagree but storing those pics/video on photobucket is certainly an option.

As for not accepting pictures,Farmers required me to send pics of a classic vehicle for my stated value policy,FWIW.

That hurts because it makes so much sense. I need to get in much better CV condition.

Fill up your gas tank more often (keep your tank above half-full).

Let someone know where you're going and when you expect to get there.

Inventory your change jar, exchange it for $1 bills, and conceal that in your car.

More low or no-cost prep items for the car: water bottles, matches

Most of the preps I have in my car are old camping and hiking gear. Camping has come in very handy for prepping.

One of the least expensive preps you can make. (assuming you own running shoes) It's funny how so few consider physical fitness as part of a prepared lifestyle.

The saying "survival of the FITTEST" came about for a reason.

I have been locked out of the house multiple times after a lock change that reversed how the knob worked. So we finally got a spare key and did what anyone would do test it first before hiding it.

Come next time i got locked out to my surprise the spare key did not work.....No Idea why no idea how but now I cant rely on a spare key incase of being locked out. A small locked out prep kit is what I came up with and if you can afford it throw a pay as you go phone cheap as you can find in there.