Low-Energy Living

Interactive Tool

Home Essentials Map

What must be reachable from each resting place — including the safety essentials: water, medication, phone. A checklist for building rest stations that can carry a whole difficult day.

What this is for: Making sure nothing essential is ever further than an arm away.

1

Within one-hand reach of where I rest

Water — a full bottle, not a plan to get some
Medication — where the relevant part of the day happens
Phone — reachable without sitting up
Charger — the cable that lives with me
Something to eat that needs nothing
Warmth or cooling within reach — blanket, fan
Light and sound within reach — eye mask, earplugs, remote
2

What's missing, and where it should live

You can leave this blank.

3

Who could help stock and refill

What you've put together

Your choices stay on this page — nothing is saved or sent.

The reach check, done — with every 'no' now having a place to fix it.

Nothing chosen yet — that's fine. Use only what helps today.

The one-hand reach standard: what you use while resting should be reachable from lying down, without sitting up. Nothing worth reaching for should live further than an arm away.

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