I’ve been thinking a lot about wills, document emergency kits and ‘what if’ situations.

I HAVE ACTUAL ASSETS NOW!

When I was younger, I didn’t have many assets to be considered significant. Who really worries about the $20 you have stashed as coins in a piggy bank?

However as I am getting older, I am accumulating quite a bit of assets that could be very confusing to wade through unless it was laid out neatly for people to find.

I wouldn’t want to cause problems for people in my life just because I didn’t have my shizz together.

A SAFETY DEPOSIT BOX SOLUTION

I am considering opening a safety deposit box where I keep documents that are very important in a file folder that can be accessed.

I would give access to a trusted family member such as my mother, and if in the event of any problems, she can go to the bank, get the key and find the files she needs for everything.

I have the option of either putting everything on a password protected USB key with a password that only my mother could know, or actual papers.

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