ICE - In Case of Emergency 2005

Here's a good idea which I found on the blog of a man in New Zealand I've never met and who's site I can't remember how I reached:

Add an entry in your mobile phone's contacts for ICE with name and contact info (e.g. "ICE - mom" and then her name and phone number on separate lines below). Emergency services can use this to contact the appropriate people should you have an accident and need medical authorizations, etc.

This got me thinking that it's also a good idea to have an entry for Home or Mom because if you lose your mobile phone, many folks (e.g. lost & found coordinators at Filco festivals) know to look for that and call to say they have it.

And on the same concept, it doesn't hurt to have your business card in your wallet and in a pocket of your backback with "this is my wallet" and "this is my bag" written on it. Lots of people who find lost things like reuniting them with their rightful owner; make it easy. (But don't put your home address in there; there's no reason to give an invitation to further robbery to the person who snagged your wallet at that crowded festival and knows you aren't at home).

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ICE - In Case of Emergency

Here's a good idea which I found on the blog of a man in New Zealand I've never met and who's site I can't remember how I reached:

Add an entry in your mobile phone's contacts for ICE with name and contact info (e.g. "ICE - mom" and then her name and phone number on separate lines below). Emergency services can use this to contact the appropriate people should you have an accident and need medical authorizations, etc.

This got me thinking that it's also a good idea to have an entry for Home or Mom because if you lose your mobile phone, many folks (e.g. lost & found coordinators at Filco festivals) know to look for that and call to say they have it.

And on the same concept, it doesn't hurt to have your business card in your wallet and in a pocket of your backback with "this is my wallet" and "this is my bag" written on it. Lots of people who find lost things like reuniting them with their rightful owner; make it easy. (But don't put your home address in there; there's no reason to give an invitation to further robbery to the person who snagged your wallet at that crowded festival and knows you aren't at home).

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