When I'm Gone Organizer

What is inside

• About Me
  Your personal record, an emergency card, your family tree, and the dates your family will need.
• Who To Call
  Primary contacts, notification lists, professionals, and helpers, in the order the calls should happen.
• Where Everything Is
  Document locations, property and vehicles, keys, safes, and storage.
• Money & Accounts
  Bank accounts, investments, insurance, debts, bills, benefits, and taxes. Institutions and last four digits only. The organizer never asks for full account numbers.
• My Digital Life
  Password pointers, email and phone, cloud storage, social media, and subscriptions. It records where your password manager is and who can reach it. It never asks you to write a password down.
• Final Wishes
  Funeral preferences, service details, obituary notes, guardianship wishes, pet care, letters, and keepsakes.
• The Executor Playbook
  The first 72 hours, the first week, the first month, and months 2 to 12, as ordered checklists, with phone scripts for common calls and trackers for paperwork and deadlines.
• Household Inventory
  A room-by-room inventory, with a valuables list, useful for insurance and for dividing belongings fairly.
• My Life & Legacy
  Story prompts, messages for the people you love, and charitable wishes.
• Update Pack
  Fresh copies of the pages that change most, plus review checklists. When one fact changes, you swap one page. Every form page ends with a line for the date you last updated it.

How people use it

Fill in what you can, a page at a time. Nobody finishes this in one sitting, and nobody needs to. The book suggests an order: About Me first, then Who To Call, then Where Everything Is. Even three finished sections are a real help to the people who will one day open the binder.

Keep the finished organizer where at least two people can find it. A labeled binder at home is the common choice, with a copy held by your executor or your attorney.

If you are buying it for a parent, the same order works, and the free First 72 Hours checklist is a gentle place to start the conversation.

Questions people ask

Is this a will?

No. It is an administrative organizer, a place to record information. It does not replace legal documents, and it is not legal advice. See the note at the bottom of this page.

Do I write passwords in it?

No, by design. It records where your password manager is and who can access it. Your digital life stays secure now and stays reachable later.

Can I type instead of handwriting?

Yes. The PDF is fillable, and it also prints cleanly on US Letter paper if you prefer a pen.

What if my details change?

That is what the Update Pack is for. You reprint and swap single pages instead of starting over, and every page has a line for the date it was last updated.

What exactly do I receive?

One PDF file, 140 pages, US Letter, fillable and print-ready, delivered as an instant download from Etsy. No physical item ships.

What about refunds?

It is a digital download, sold under Etsy's policies and the policy stated in the Etsy listing. If something about the file goes wrong on our end, write to us and we will make it right.

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