How can someone remind themselves to do something 5 years into the future?
I've bought an appliance. The salesperson says their extended warranty plan is fully refundable if there have been no claims after the warranty expires. The big obstacles I see are 1.) actually remembering and 2.) remembering in time to claim the refund - you have 30 days after the warranty expires.
I've actually tried to send myself e-mail reminders at work, but 5 years is a long time to keep a reminder active. The reminder I tried to send to myself must've gotten deleted with changes to the server or some other server crash. I have a free e-mail reminder service, but still it is prone to perhaps the business failing after 5 years or even my e-mail changing.
So if someone else out there has a good idea on how to get a reminder to yourself RELIABLY 5 years from now, I'd like to hear it! The best I can figure so far is to set an e-mail reminder to myself 6 months into the future and then keep sending it via whatever methods are still available at the time.
I've bought an appliance. The salesperson says their extended warranty plan is fully refundable if there have been no claims after the warranty expires. The big obstacles I see are 1.) actually remembering and 2.) remembering in time to claim the refund - you have 30 days after the warranty expires.
I've actually tried to send myself e-mail reminders at work, but 5 years is a long time to keep a reminder active. The reminder I tried to send to myself must've gotten deleted with changes to the server or some other server crash. I have a free e-mail reminder service, but still it is prone to perhaps the business failing after 5 years or even my e-mail changing.
So if someone else out there has a good idea on how to get a reminder to yourself RELIABLY 5 years from now, I'd like to hear it! The best I can figure so far is to set an e-mail reminder to myself 6 months into the future and then keep sending it via whatever methods are still available at the time.