Passwords, quizzes and privacy

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Back in the day my base word was the person's name I woke up with, but these days  I can never remember their name.

With 7 days in a week and 30 days in a month, that's a lot of names to remember! 

I have a passphrase that is the same among all my important sites. It's a sentence that is meaningful to me and includes punctuation. The length varies but it's almost always more than 10 characters. 
The prefix is an abbreviation of the site plus punctuation. 
The suffix is punctuation plus which username or account this is for. For example, I have several Microsoft accounts. 

A few years ago I started using LastPass and I still do. But I had to devise the above system because one time my hard password chosen by them couldn't be retrieved because their server was down or something similar I forget.