@imallears @johnbishop I found when I moved up here, that having paper copies of medical records were very important to my new specialists. As we talked, I could pull out reports and results, rather than them searching in a database, or waited for records to arrive from the last location.
Likewise, having records of major purchases, insurance, etc. is important. I am more in the old-fashioned world, but my husband embraces technology, so I guess we are a good pair. And we have done pictures of our house, and major things here, in case of fire and evacuation.

Like John, and Mary's dad, my dad kept a daily journal with weather report, phone calls made, important happenings. He jotted down who called him in later years, and his contacts with high school, college, Navy friends and former co-workers. He kept his work journals separate due to their nature. He documented my mother's decline into Alzheimers and dementia. At age 96 when he passed, he was still jotting notes everyday.
Ginger