Passing For Normal

Today's dose of Good & Happy is financial, and that is a very welcome thing this year, as the CPAP acquisition process wiped out all but $28 of my savings account. (That $28 is looking very sad. And slightly scary. I deeply dislike having no safety net other than a credit card.)

So I was extremely pleased, a few weeks ago, to find that I had ( some unclaimed assets. )

If you've never looked, it might be worth checking to see if you -- or a family member, or a deceased parent, etc -- might have something out there. There's a good summary of how to find out, at least in the US, in this Forbes article: How to Find Unclaimed Money and Property

I might mention that this came to my attention because my own deceased ex-husband turned out to have over $18K out there that was missed after he died. His sister won't get her brother back, but she will get this belated gift from him, and that's a lovely thing. She'd never have known about it if an asset-recovery firm hadn't contacted me, apparently thinking I was the heir (I'm not). So she benefits, and so did I, because I found a wee bit of my own money there, too. It's all good.