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Hot Grad Gift: Affordable LifeinCase: Personal Document Storage
By April MacIntyre Jun 16, 2011, 22:59 GMT
Do you know where your Grant Deed is, or those divorce papers or a child\'s immunization records?
Do you know where your Grant Deed is, or those divorce papers or a child's immunization records?
LifeinCase is a personal document storage solution that is Made in the U.S.A. and helps anyone organize all the needed documents we must keep safe. There are many gifts you can get a graduate, but this useful and portable organizer is reasonable (under $40) and cuts through the clutter that years of poor document management can create. The packaging is durable, and organizes documents into an intuitive five-part system: Personal, Medical, Property, Estate, and Financial, each featuring a sturdy file folder and handy checklist of suggested documents to store. LifeinCase’s 500-sheet capacity is designed in a “grab-n-go tote” and is lightweight and much more resilient than the old accordion-style folders of the past. Low tech, it's your no fail, no crash, go-to source for your must-have papers. Like many useful inventions, the backstory on it was born from necessity: A family tragedy made worse by document disaster. “My father passed away suddenly of a brain aneurysm and we were in shock and left to sort through a lifetime’s worth of papers crammed into multiple file cabinets, envelopes and lock boxes throughout the house,” says LifeinCase co-inventor Diane Hoyle-Moran. “It was nearly impossible to find the documents we really needed such as insurance information, military papers and the will – making an already difficult time worse for my family. If we just had a guideline of what we needed to keep For those of us in earthquake and flash fire country, this easy to grab and go in an emergency situation or ordered evacuation. I also loved the neatness of how it stored on shelves, and how it gave peace of mind when I knew where all my really important papers were. “We like to say - Just in Case, LifeinCase,” says co-inventor Mark Gibson. The LifeinCase is ideal for many circumstances including: home downsizing, moving or travel, emergency evacuations (floods, fires, earthquakes or hurricanes, etc.), It is also a marvelous and thoughtful gift for a senior living in an assisted living residence where storage space limited. Each LifeinCase Portable Document Solution is made in the U.S.A. and features a tough and attractive 12.5 x 10 x 2.5 inch “grab-n-go tote” plus a 5-part intuitive filing system organizing essential Personal, Property, Under $40 and available at www.LifeinCase.com April MacIntyre is Monsters and Critics' smallscreen and people/celebrity editor who loves to visit and celebrate small American and Canadian companies when she can. You can contact her on Twitter
and one place to keep it in – it would have allowed us to settle my dad’s
estate without any guesswork.”
divorce proceedings, medical documentation and insurance billing, bill
paying, loan management, tax filing/audits and more.
Medical, Financial, and Estate documents.
