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Make Decisions for Peace of Mind!
It is hard to think about no longer being alive - no longer doing the things you love - no longer being with the people you love! Our cycle of life places us in stages which begins small (happy to afford the studio apartment), to accomplished (add more stuff), and eventually feeling the need to downsize and shed. However, if you don't make it until the "shed" stage, what is going to happen to your beloved "stuff"? Who will deal with it? Are closets too full? Once precious things sitting everywhere with you believing that someone after you die will want them. Research shows that kids (or others) don't want "your stuff" as they accumulate their own. Could you make a conscious effort to purge, clean out, and dispose of unused things sooner in life?
Having a will - having a written plan - will give you the inner peace now to know that someone else won't have to deal with your "stuff" wondering what you had wanted or intended.
We have a trust and a will. We have all our paperwork in order per our state - Texas - regulations. However, my husband has a huge woodworking studio that we know would end up having to be sold off for pennies on the dollar at an auction. We also know it would be a big time waste for our executor. A week before a long international tripa few years ago, we decided to have parts of our will/trust redone - and to name a woodworking school (we checked with them first) to be the recipient of everything in his studio. It felt right. the collection of amazing tools and machines that he has painstakenly collected over his lifetime can be passed on to someone who can use it all. If they can't use it all, we have designated that they can sell them and keep all proceeds for the good of the school.
We were able to leave on our trip feeling that should anything happen to us, we had helped the people we would have left with the burden. It feels good today knowing that decision. We made it back home just fine obviously. We can always redo the will/trust (as you should every so often). Today it is the right thing and we have peace of mind!
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We have countless jokes online and in person about nonstop phone calls at all hours begging you to extend your car warranty - even when you don't own a car! But we don't talk about death. AND we all have death in common!
Upon death, even if your legal paperwork is completed will there be problems? Tell others about your wishes. Make changes as often as you want but be sure your loved ones know. Problems arise when loved ones disagree. Money can do that to wills.
You don't have to discuss death daily. Yet you need to face that we all will die. Give yourself a rest sometimes but remember that each day is precious.