Author: Marie

A Laptop for Christmas

Do you use a laptop?  I never had one until I retired and started building and writing content for websites and blogs.  What a difference portability makes!

Systematizing My Blog to Make Life Easier

Family Money Values has been around a couple of years now and is gaining visitors and ground here and there. It is very exciting (and humbling) to realize that someone out there is reading...

10 Benefits of Writing Your Autobiography

Exercise your right to tell your own story in your own words – write an autobiography! Your life is important. You have taken on challenges and won the day. You moved the human condition...

Executor Testing of an Estate Plan

So, you are the executor, or maybe the successor trustee for a family member’s estate. Waiting until your family member dies is probably not the best way to get introduced to what is in...

Have You Ever Tested Your Estate Plan?

You are a smart person who has been around financially. Your success led you to realize that you would have financial assets left at death and you have created your estate plan. You probably...

Test Your Own Estate Plan

If you have set up your estate plan with the various typical recommended documents, you are two steps ahead of the game. However, as evidenced by numerous estate transfers gone bad, your plan may...

Why NOT Use That Halloween Pumpkin?

Pumpkins raised for carving, I just learned, are not the best ones to use for cooking. Who knew! I’ve been peeling and cooking my Jack O’Lantern pumpkins for years and making delicious pumpkin bread...

Clutter, Clutter Everywhere

The average house size in the 1950’s (according to The Swelling McMansion Backlash on msn.com) was 983 square feet. I lived in one of those with my brother and parents. It had 784 square feet. We...