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<p>[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 884745, member: 13650"]I need to seriously start thinking about this. I have an excellent program for everything on the computer. Purchase dates, purchase prices, current values, for most everything. So hopefully somebody could look something up pretty easily on the program and not sell a $300 coin for $20 anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p> I also have a document saved right to the desktop called "Death benefits". It's a list of all the insurance companies and social secuirty info,amounts, along with phone numbers, all in one place. It's so my wife wouldn't have to be left in the dark (or lied to!). </p><p> I'm sure she probably wouldn't even know about at least one of them if it wasn't written down and I couldn't blame her. All important documents are kept together in one place. My wife would become debt free and very well off from my life insurance. She would not need to sell anything if she didn't want to. </p><p><br /></p><p> But my collection has no proposed direction at this time. Hoping to have a kid or two that might be interested some day. That's best case scenario. I'm sure I could get them interested.</p><p><br /></p><p> At best right now I could will some to a couple nieces at this time. As far as going to someone that I would want to have them, but they are very young and who knows.</p><p><br /></p><p> I would imagine there is not an easy answer for many of us. But if we do nothing in advance, it likely will lead to an undesirable outcome. No doubt.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 884745, member: 13650"]I need to seriously start thinking about this. I have an excellent program for everything on the computer. Purchase dates, purchase prices, current values, for most everything. So hopefully somebody could look something up pretty easily on the program and not sell a $300 coin for $20 anyway. I also have a document saved right to the desktop called "Death benefits". It's a list of all the insurance companies and social secuirty info,amounts, along with phone numbers, all in one place. It's so my wife wouldn't have to be left in the dark (or lied to!). I'm sure she probably wouldn't even know about at least one of them if it wasn't written down and I couldn't blame her. All important documents are kept together in one place. My wife would become debt free and very well off from my life insurance. She would not need to sell anything if she didn't want to. But my collection has no proposed direction at this time. Hoping to have a kid or two that might be interested some day. That's best case scenario. I'm sure I could get them interested. At best right now I could will some to a couple nieces at this time. As far as going to someone that I would want to have them, but they are very young and who knows. I would imagine there is not an easy answer for many of us. But if we do nothing in advance, it likely will lead to an undesirable outcome. No doubt.[/QUOTE]
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