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[Pblakeney]

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Hope this helps. £9 from Amazon.

Edit - amazed they still exist.

I am amazed too!
Too high tech for me though, I just used a notepad.

 

[Pross]

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Hope this helps. £9 from Amazon.

Edit - amazed they still exist.

Boomers innit - my mother-in-law looks a number up in a book before dialling it on her mobile!

Have to admit I've got out of the habit of memorising numbers now, I still remember the home numbers of old school friends I haven't seen in nearly 40 years but other than my own personal mobile and the wife's personal mobile I only know one other off the top of my head (an ex-colleague I haven't seen in 5 years or more as I used to have to call it or pass it on to people regularly in the days that mobiles first started to become standard issue and he's kept it ever since). I don't even know my kids', parents' or own work mobile numbers now.

 

[Pross]

Ha, my gran had one of those, cos she was posh and had a phone (as well as colour TV). First phone in my parents' house was when I was 15.

I think I was about that age when my parents finally caved in and got one so would have been late 80s. At least we never had to have one with a rotary dial though.

 

[Pblakeney]

How are children whose remaining parent dies going to contact all the friends that once would have been in a parent's address/phone book? (From experience, having had to do just that a few years ago.)

That is a very valid point, having had to do it myself as well.
You would need access to their phone/notepad/computer.

 

[Pblakeney]

Ha, my gran had one of those, cos she was posh and had a phone (as well as colour TV). First phone in my parents' house was when I was 15.

I remember a time when the majority of people I knew did not have a phone and used the public phoneboxes.
I also remember queues outside of public phoneboxes.

 

[Pblakeney]

So did I.

I wrote to them.…..

Tightwad! 😉😂
So you had an address book. 😉

 

[briantrumpet]

That is a very valid point, having had to do it myself as well.
You would need access to their phone/notepad/computer.

...and then you get into the whole world of the digital footprint of someone thoroughly online who dies. It still brings me up short when I randomly see the FB profile of an ex-pupil who died when he was 22, still there, but it just stops...

I guess that there are ways executors can unlock all the crucial financial stuff now hidden behind account protection including complex passwords and 2FA, but as for the rest of one's digital life...?? 🤔🤷‍♂️

 

[briantrumpet]

I remember a time when the majority of people I knew did not have a phone and used the public phoneboxes.
I also remember queues outside of public phoneboxes.

Ha, the long queue in the uni halls of residence on Sunday evenings for the one payphone... it was an advantage that I was in an annexe with just 12 inmates and our own payphone that accepted calls.

 

[First Aspect]

Boomers innit - my mother-in-law looks a number up in a book before dialling it on her mobile!

Have to admit I've got out of the habit of memorising numbers now, I still remember the home numbers of old school friends I haven't seen in nearly 40 years but other than my own personal mobile and the wife's personal mobile I only know one other off the top of my head (an ex-colleague I haven't seen in 5 years or more as I used to have to call it or pass it on to people regularly in the days that mobiles first started to become standard issue and he's kept it ever since). I don't even know my kids', parents' or own work mobile numbers now.

Been replaced by passwords.

 

[BoldonLad]

How are children whose remaining parent dies going to contact all the friends that once would have been in a parent's address/phone book? (From experience, having had to do just that a few years ago.)

From their parent's mobile phone contact list?

 

[Pblakeney]

From their parent's mobile phone contact list?

That only works if they have zero privacy, or have shared their log in details?

 

[BoldonLad]

That only works if they have zero privacy, or have shared their log in details?

Just use face-id, before they close the coffin lid 😂

Sharing your log-in details with the executor of your will sounds reasonable and sensible to me.

 

[Pblakeney]

Sharing your log-in details with the executor of your will sounds reasonable and sensible to me.

It does indeed. How many have set that up though?

 

[the snail]

How are children whose remaining parent dies going to contact all the friends that once would have been in a parent's address/phone book? (From experience, having had to do just that a few years ago.)

People don't die anymore, they live on forever on tiktok, ncap etc. You just post 'fred is dead smileyface' job done.

 

[briantrumpet]

It does indeed. How many have set that up though?

Trouble is that I've no idea how many separate log-ins I have though, and how many of them would be useful to my executor. I assume that there are millions of dormant online accounts stretching from NCAP to HMRC of people who've died, and that's only going to multiply exponentially as the online generations start dying off.