The Game of Life
An estate worksheet in thirteen moves that ends at a printer: where everything is, who to call, and what you'd wish, left for the people who'll need it.
The Game of Life is a guided worksheet for the hardest homework there is: writing down where everything lives before your family has to go looking. Thirteen stations, one sitting or several, and the whole thing ends at a printer.
It is built backwards from privacy. True secrets — passwords, account numbers, codes — never touch the browser: they go on ruled ✎ pen lines you fill in by hand after printing. Typed answers never leave your device unless you explicitly turn saving on, and the honest save button is the printout itself. Play it on screen, or print a blank copy and do the whole thing in pen.
A companion page carries the longer answers: wills and trusts in plain language, choosing a password manager (and why the worksheet won't let you type one), planning a service ahead of need. Play it for yourself, a parent, or anyone you love. Whatever gets written down is a gift.
Filed under Estate Planning, Family, Privacy
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