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Ah but the genius of such a list is that it can also cover things like closing windows, checking the gas cooker is off, watering plants... anything that you might later think "did I remember to...?", while flying to Indonesia.

You might have left your fridge switched on, but did you close the door properly?

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Read somebody saying that they used their phone to take a picture of the stove knobs before leaving the house.

As a person who has returned to the house at least twice to make sure the burners were off, that resonated.

With LED lights, making sure everything is turned off isn't such a big deal these days. But, while I don't really sweat closing up the house for a day or so, it's definitely worth checking things like windows on a longer trip. There are definitely a lot of things you normally do on cruise control and it's nice to be sure they really happened.

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