Your will: Dealing with your cottage or summer home?

So you have a cottage or summer home. Awesome! Warm evenings by a campfire. The birds in the morning and the grand kids snuggling in under those colorful quilts you so lovingly made. Maybe it's an RV you parked in a seasonal campground years ago, like my mother in law did? Maybe you were lucky enough to have inherited a vintage cottage that you yourself spent summers at when you were nothing but a sprout.

You are getting long in the tooth. The doctor has warned you the old blood pressure is over the top or you just feel time is marching on and in spite of all your best efforts, you are going to have another birthday and the number involved just blows what's left of your mind?

Oh my god! This is the place of your dreams. You have lived most of your life running to this safe haven, away from the ills of the world and the strife in our busy, 'at home' lives. In every corner is a memory of this child and that visitor. Where you and your spouse made love. Where you roasted the marshmallows and grilled the process cheese sandwiches. Sitting in that rickety wooden chair, reading a mooshie love story or titillating spy thriller on a rainy day.
This will be my subject for the next couple of days.

Two more excuses we forgot.

Two more excuses: 'We don't have children or anybody to give it to' and also 'we are afraid.'

If you don't have children, still, do you want the government to have it?
Isn't there a favorite charity that you could be a benefactor to? What about a public property in your area; a park or library or hospital that you could help support or improve for future generations? There must be something somewhere that has touched your heart, that you feel a connection to.

One of the reasons people who plan to have children say they have them is so that they make a mark on this world and have something of themselves survive on.

I know fear and trust me, I've lived with a ton of fear at times of my life. You are afraid that by acknowledging your own end, you will cause it? Are you an Ostrich, with your head in the sand? Are you still smoking because cancer is something that happens to someone else? Do you not get the brakes fixed on your car because you can 'drive beyond' bad brakes? All I can say to this is: How many times have you heard someone say: 'There's only two things in life that are certain; Death and taxes!'
... And if you've paid taxes all your life, then the other is......? (You fill in the blanks!)

Yak soon and have a great week!