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The wise old toad says...

***I almost lost my Steemit account by being careless about my password.***

For the past few months our six-year-old computer has been having issues, such as randomly shutting down with no notice.  Often times I was in the midst of creating a Steemit post.  Luckily when I got back online my unpublished post was right where I had left off.  *Great feature of Steemit, by the way.*

What is strange is that the other day I felt this strong urge to back up my Steemit password in a safe location.  I am an idiot who stores sensitive passwords in a text file on our computer.  I try to hide it among the files and give it an inconspicuous name, if that helps any.  I had done the same with my Steemit password.  Nonetheless, I decided to write my password on a card in pen and hide it in a location outside our home, in case I needed to refer to it at a later time.  I did not notate what that password was for, in case someone found the card.  It would appear to be meaningless characters with no identification.

**Then later that same day, our computer took its last breath, and died.**

It died in such a manner that no files could be retrieved from it.  Everything was wiped out.  Luckily I had done a system backup a year ago, so most of our documents and photos were spared.  But I did lose a lot of recent items.  My Steemit password would have been one of those casualties, had I not felt the urge to write it down earlier that day.  And we all know from the day we started our Steemit accounts that there is no password recovery.  I was so thankful I made that move.  And now I know better than to rely on my computer alone to store valuable files.

**I am sure some of you are thinking,  *"Duh, moron.  Everyone knows that."*   But I am just a humble Midwesterner who is slow to grasp modern ideas.**