874 Have Fun with your Will!

It's time to change the narrative about our last wishes.

You've heard me say that your Will is your final love letter to your family.

It is also your last wishes. Now let your imagination soar.

Ideally, you are going to update your will every 5-10 years, as circumstances change.

You can leave humorous family items that "no one wants."

My grandmother left a large pot that she used to wash diapers in. She also used it to make chicken and dumplings. YUCK!!

She passed away in 1984!! We still laugh about the pot, and now, one of my cousins wants us all to get together to make chicken and dumplings.

Here are some other people's final wishes:

• A Portuguese man actually chose 70 names at random—from a phone book to leave his inheritance.

• A prominent Canadian attorney requested for his Jamaican timeshare to be shared among three attorneys who he knew hated each other.

• In 1862, one man left £200,000 in a trust for his 2 sons on one condition: neither of them grow a mustache. 

• Leona Helmsley left $12 million to her dog, a Maltese named Trouble.

• According to his final requests, the ashes of Roddenberry were lifted into outer space.

• Poet Heinrich Heine, vowed to give all his property to his widowed wife on one condition: she needed to remarry. His wife was known to be boring and incredibly vain, Heine actually stated that if she remarried “there will be at least one man who will regret my death.” 

• One man wrote, "To my daughter Anne, who created my beautiful granddaughter Jane, and her dear fourth husband John, who laid hands on my Jane, I leave one dollar you money-grubbing b*stards. To Jane, I leave all of my monetary assets, save $5,000 and my best gun, which I leave to my son Bill, on the condition that he beats John bloody during the time between my funeral and my burial. Jane, bail your uncle out of jail, please."

The possibilities are endless on how creative we can get!!

It doesn't have to be scary, just memorable.

Is your mind racing with ideas on what to put in your last Will and Testament?