Personal Productivity - My Pre-vacation Checklist

This is my vacation checklist. Feel free to use/edit/adapt to make it yours. Some items are not necessary when I leave on a business trip, as someone will be home to take care of watering the plants and feeding the cats. In that case, I simply have less to paste into my calendar.

1. Water plants
2. Pay Bills
3. Change answering machine message
4. Vacation message on email
5. Charge cell phone
6. Schedule cat sitter
7. Cat letter/litter/food
8. Add to-do reminder on Act(my electronic calendar) to turn off vacation message on email
9. Set VCR
10. Print boarding passes
11. In addition to business card inside and outside of bag, place copy of trip itinerary inside bags, so airlines can track you down.
12. Take a picture of bags; it’s easier to show airline claims personnel a photo, rather than describe what it looks like. Keep photo in bag until you pack, then put with airline ticket.
13. ATM for cash
14. Fill gas tank