This paper describes the design process and content of a publicly available database for everyday listening. While databases for musical sounds and studio recordings are readily available, databases for everyday sounds are lacking. Such a database is essential as more and more research is aimed at environmental sounds and everyday listening. The current lack of a standardized collection of properly recorded and annotated sounds in realistic acoustic environments limits the comparability of results between research groups, and hampers interdisciplinary cooperation. The collection described in this study must to help solve these issues. The collection currently consists of approximately 120 fragments of 60-second recordings of real-life situations. The use of head-mounted binaural microphones ensures a realistic capture of the environment for headphone playback. The recordings differ in location (e.g. indoor, rural, urban) and activity (e.g. taking the bus, dish washing, typing). Detailed annotations, provided for all recordings, describe the environment of the recording as well as the sources and onset-offset information of each of the sounds present. We aim to expand and improve the collection with more recordings and more specific information. We hope that many researchers in the auditory field will benefit from this database.