LEGACY LIVING
It's time to COPE: Clear Clutter, Organize, Preserve, and Empower
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I Kept This Secret for Years (opens the original)
The Phone Call That Cost Me (opens the original)
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Early in my online business, I got an email that looked exactly like it came from PayPal. My account was locked. Suspicious activity. Call this number.I want to be plain about how real it looked, because everyone reading this is sure she would have spotted it. I would have been sure, too.I was new to PayPal, and that account was how a brand-new business got paid. That’s what made me vulnerable. It wasn’t that I didn’t know better. It was that the account mattered. So, I called.What happened next
Forty-Five Minutes & One Section (opens the original)
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What Are We Leaving Them to Figure Out? (opens the original)
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Everything on my computer sits behind one password. I know it. I don't think I've ever said it out loud to another living soul. And even if someone did have it — then what? Which accounts matter. What's in the cloud. Which files are important and which are fifteen years of accumulation. I know all of it because I'm the one who built it, and none of it is written down anywhere. Three minutes from the porch this morning. The free Vital Legal Papers Checklist is here if you'd like the 61 things som
Nobody Taught Us this Job (opens the original)
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When my mother died, we went looking for her papers - in the midst of grieving.I knew it started with death certificates, but that’s about all.Why couldn’t this have been more organized? Why wasn’t I told some of these things beforehand? Why didn’t I ask?For years I thought the lesson was that things could have been more organized. That was the wrong lesson, and it took me far too long to see it.She did exactly what her generation was taught. The will with the lawyer. The deed in the deposit box
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