Comments on: Financial Emergency Kit

By: Taryn Wildeson

Taryn Wildeson — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:06:59 +0000

I think there is nothing more heartbreaking than remembering being loved and cuddled by your grandmother. When I was 16 I found out I had Crohn’s disease @ the time it wasn’t debilitating
over the years I got worse, lost weight, teeth, hair and finally my Colon burst in half. Being a farm girl, I had a high tolerance to pain, even before when I could barely hold my bowels I wore maxi-pads to absorb what leaked from my loose stool.
My family made me think I was over exaggerating and ignored me.
After emergencey surgery the Dr scolded my fmily, telling them he had NEVER hear or seen a person live more than 10 hrs with the amount of septic material in my system , let alone have gone 3 days. They should be ashamed and instead of rejoicing my survivial should think they would have been planning my burial.
That’s not quite the worse, in 11/1/2000 I moved into a poperty my grandparents owned. I, thanks to the help of my drs got me diability. At first my rent was $300, slowly it kept rising, fuel here,an extra for inflation, then 50 for electicity. I was scrapping to getting to get by. My grndparents never had big paying jobs i n thier life, but now own 192 acre farm, a new Cadallac and 2 Dodges every 3 yrs. The Farm House I live in is divided into 2 apartments downstairs w/ a garage and upstairs, mine. They also lease the land to be farmed by a local farmer. If I was a day late with my rent I got an angry call saying she needed her money too! She gets Social security the same day!
Hint: Thier youngest daughter (who is only 10 yrs younger than I am, Is a multi-millionaire, with only a 10 yr degree from Shippensburg University?)

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By: pfadvice

pfadvice — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 00:35:48 +0000

“What do you think of scanning the most important documents and tossing them into your email acount, zipped, encrypted?”

I think that it’s a great additional step to take, but it’s likely that you won’t have power or computer access for awhile after a major disaster – our power was out for 2 weeks after the earthquake. It’s a good back-up in case you couldn’t get out with your duffel bag for whatever reason.

“Jeffrey: Perhaps you saw my post from last September�”

I missed that, but glad you pointed it out and that others in the pf world are thinking along the same lines.

By: thc

thc — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:49:52 +0000

Jeffrey: Perhaps you saw my post from last September…

http://happycapitalist.blogspot.com/2005/09/disaster-drill-for-financial-documents.html

By: Jacked Tunes

Jacked Tunes — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:06:45 +0000

What do you think of scanning the most important documents and tossing them into your email acount, zipped, encrypted?

By: Financial Rounds

Financial Rounds — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 16:20:17 +0000

This Week’s Carnival of Personal Finance

The Real Returns is hosting the first Carnival Of Personal Finance of the new year. As usual, there’s lots of interesting stuff. Here are the posts that caught my eye..