Have you made a will?

Death, taxes and Harry Styles gifs

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Do you have a will?

I have had ‘wills???’ on my Notes app Ladybird Purse To Do list for, I suspect, the best part of eighteen months.

I need to make one. I also wanted to write about it. But every time I saw it on the list, I just moved it to the bottom. I don’t have a problem with talking - or writing - about death, but wills? So much admin. And sad to think about. Sadmin. The worst kind.

So I kept putting it off.

And then the wonderful Katy Wheatley posted about how she’d been making a will and so I messaged her and asked her to please write about if for me. And because she is wonderful, she did.

Over to Katy…

Benjamin Franklin said: Nothing is certain except death and taxes.

Nobody likes a smart arse, Benjamin, but sadly you are right.

As a woman who hates numbers and fears financial advisors as much as death, this knowledge has been an extremely heavy burden to me over the years.

Making a will is the intersection of all my fears and unlike other fears, I cannot bury my head under the duvet and do nothing about it. Even I understand that it’s pretty important to make a will. Even if your wishes are simple, your funds are negligible and your family is tiny, a will is still a good thing to have.