Extremely valuable tangibles, financial or emotional, should be incorporated into your Will or Trust as specific distributions. Tangibles that could cause conflicts in the family should also be written specifically into your plan, to avoid claims of fraud or abuse. However, for most of us, and for the majority of our tangibles, they do not fall under such categories. A Tangible Personal Property Memorandum is a wonderful vehicle to simply, and legally, leave personal property to your loved ones.  It is simple to complete because it does not have to be signed in the presence of witnesses or a notary public.  It can be changed over time, crossed out, added to, updated, thrown away.  A signature and a date (to be able to easily identify the most-recent version), is all that is necessary.  It also allows you to leave tangible personal property to anyone that you want – even if the person is not a beneficiary under the rest of your plan.  You may have a neighbor who really loves a painting in your house, or a sibling that you want to leave your grandfather’s watch to, or maybe everything is going to your kids and you want to make sure that your daughter receives your favorite earrings (and not your son’s wife!).