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If your house is ever burglarized, hopefully that person does not have a passion for literature!Trades with cats wrote:Side note.
Several years ago Ben Stein put up an article in which he described his letter to his wife. The letter assumes he has passed away in an untimely manner and it tells her where and how to find the stuff he takes care of. Accounts, passwords, where is the will, what has to happen each month.
If you haven't had to pick up the pieces from the loss of a family member than you may never put something like that together, but it would be a huge help. I have a thin three ring binder on the shelf entitled "A letter for the Girls" (our two daughters). It also serves as what the boat people call a ditch bag, with copies of credit cards, our passports, car titles, birth certificates etc, so if I have to I can grab and run.
Safety Deposit box, or at least somewhere off-site AND secured (like in a family member's safe) may be a better place for your 'map' of what is where, financially.Trades with cats wrote:Side note.
Several years ago Ben Stein put up an article in which he described his letter to his wife. The letter assumes he has passed away in an untimely manner and it tells her where and how to find the stuff he takes care of. Accounts, passwords, where is the will, what has to happen each month.
If you haven't had to pick up the pieces from the loss of a family member than you may never put something like that together, but it would be a huge help. I have a thin three ring binder on the shelf entitled "A letter for the Girls" (our two daughters). It also serves as what the boat people call a ditch bag, with copies of credit cards, our passports, car titles, birth certificates etc, so if I have to I can grab and run.
Physical things can go missing, be stolen, or burned.Trades with cats wrote:Ha Ha . Had the same thoughts myself. I was careful to use a cheep plastic notebook and I buried it deep in a section of boring books.
Alternate is a USB drive. I admit we have the fake book as a safe.