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Matt Paxton
Unfortunately, nursing homes can be expensive, averaging $90,000 per year. Still, they are often less expensive than paying for twenty-four-hour care in your home.
The smartest way to use storage is not to use it at all.
We needed to dig in. I went with my secret weapon, the “Ten-Minute Sweep.” You clean for ten minutes every night, five nights a week.
But the reality is that you aren’t obligated to any thing or lifestyle other than the one you want. That’s what this is about: building the life you want, not the life you think you should have or that you think a loved one would want you to have.
Matt’s List of Important Original Documents to Keep—Permanently Social Security cards Copy of driver’s licenses Passports, current and past Naturalization or immigration papers Voter ID cards Birth certificates Death certificates Marriage certificates Workers’ compensation forms Immunization records (including your COVID-19 vaccination card) Divorce decrees Adoption papers Alimony settlement agreements Annulment decrees or settlements Change-of-name certificates Cohabitation agreements Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements Qualified domestic relations orders Car titles Land contracts
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Matt’s List of Important Documents to Keep—Temporarily Tax records (seven years) Legal records (five years after a case is closed) Medical records (up to two years after full payment in case of disputes) Outstanding loans (until paid off)
A great resource for pulling together all your vital information is AARP’s Checklist for My Family: A Guide to My History, Financial Plans, and Final Wishes, available wherever books are sold.
Tech for Troops
Armed forces charities. Operation Paperback, for example, is a charity serving individuals in the military and personnel deployed overseas or housed in hospitals or rehabilitation facilities.
All major and most minor magazines and newspapers dating back centuries are archived in databases like LexisNexis and Factiva, accessible at any university library and many big-city public libraries.
Freecycle. This is one of my favorite websites, since its express purpose is for people to distribute their goods to others.
