Things to Review During the New Year Holidays (This is also important end-of-life planning) Part 3: Write your passwords on paper

End-of-life planning series for the New Year holidays, part 3.Write your passwords on paper and store them—I've said this so many times it's probably annoying. Because,

it's incredibly important!

To you, who says, "Yeah, yeah, I know. I'll do it later," while watching the M-1 Grand Prix final again,

do it right now!! It only takes 10 seconds!!

Look, digital end-of-life planning is seriously important, but if you don't have a trigger, you'll just keep putting it off. First, your smartphone. For those who have a password lock on it,

you must write it down on paper!!!!

Seriously.
Paper will save you in a pinch.
Managing digital assets with analog (paper) is the absolute basic of basics.
Honestly, I've been saved by this so many times. I usually don't have a password lock (I do now), and I completely forgot the password I was asked for during the initial smartphone setup. Then, when I updated the OS, it suddenly asked me,

Enter password

I told my phone, "No, I don't usually have a password lock (I do now—second time saying this)," but it didn't listen at all. When I thought about it carefully,I actually did set a password at the very, very beginning. At the mobile shop.That password was written on the contract, so I was able to open it, but if it hadn't been written down, I would have been totally finished.

So, you must write down your passwords!!!

And for banks, especially online banking, they always ask for passwords, so it's a pain to write them down every time, right? In that case, do this. It's also an article that for some reason gets read a lot,

Make copies of the front and back of all the cash cards and credit cards you own.

If you think, "Ugh, that's a pain,"

then reduce the number of cards you have!

If you narrow it down to the number you really need, management becomes easier. Then, once you've made copies, write the ID and password on them and run correction tape over them twice. This is somethingYusuke Furuta, a pro at digital end-of-life planning, also advocates for spare keys for smartphones. I also introduce it in the article below.

Don't just sit there during the New Year holidays watching Tver, Hulu, or Amazon Prime! Putting aside my anger that I'm working here, seriously, please do it. If you do this, next year will definitely be a good year.

If this has kickstarted your end-of-life planning, please refer to the "End-of-Life Planning Table of Contents You Can Read in 2 Minutes."

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