Easy On Them is a fill-in folder for your papers, accounts and wishes. Start with the 25 pages marked Core and your family already has what they need.
Your daughter is at the kitchen table with your phone, a pile of mail and a bank on hold. She doesn't know which banks you use. She doesn't know if there is a life policy, or where the will is. She knows you had a system. It was in your head.
We studied 20 real public accounts. Here is how many hit each problem.
These are real pages from the folder. Tap any page to see it full size.
There are 25: who to call first, where the papers are, your accounts, bills, insurance and wishes. Do a few at a time.
Other pages point to it by page number.
Part Two walks them through the first 48 hours, the first weeks and the first months.
16 sections, from who to call first to your funeral wishes.
For your family: the first 48 hours, 21 offices to tell, 5 letters to copy, the executor's job in plain words.
Doing it together, the yearly update, a letter to your family.
Type is 14 point or bigger, with room to write by hand. Most pages have a column for each of you, so a couple fills in one folder, not two.
Not good with computers? Print it and use a pen. Every page works on paper. It is black and white, one topic per page, so you can print only the pages you need.
Your family will act on these pages on a hard day. A wrong line costs them time. So we checked all 108 facts in the folder against official US government sources, and rewrote every line that did not match.
The folder never asks for a password, a PIN or a full account number. It asks where they are kept and who knows. If this folder is ever lost, nothing in it opens an account.
Many grown children are the ones who will make the calls. You can buy the folder, print the Core pages and fill them in with your mother or father over a few visits. Part Three has pages on doing it together.
Then you both know where the folder is kept, and who else knows.
Every choice is a fill-in PDF you type into or print. Paid once. Nothing is shipped.
The 78-page folder. 25 pages marked Core: fill those first.
$39 paid once
Get the Folder · $39The folder, plus the letters your family will need to send.
$69 paid once
Get Folder + Letters · $69For the person who will settle things.
$99 paid once
Get the full set · $99Right after you pay, you go straight to a page with your files to download.
Digital files, so all sales are final.
Fill in the 25 pages. Then, on the day your daughter sits at your kitchen table, she opens one folder instead of a pile of mail.
The cover
Start Here: the first three people to call
About me, with a column for each of you
Bank accounts and cards: last 4 digits only
Phone, email and online life
If I'm suddenly in the hospital
For your family: the first 48 hours
Letters your family can copy