Just tidbits about money and finance.
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NCN recently asked what is your checking and savings system?
I have three checking accounts and two savings accounts. Let me explain.
I have a checking account at Bank #1 because it was convenient at the time. I forget entirely why that was now. But when I bought my condo, I needed a cashier’s check and Bank [...]
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I knew it was foolish to try to stretch out $86 for over two weeks. I still have about $3 in my wallet though. I moved $50 to my checking account to cover myself for one tank of gas and a few small things like 9V batteries for my smoke detector and some Ticketmaster fees [...]
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Just as promised, they sent it to arrive 7-10 days after the event. I have a nice shiny $289.00 check burning a hole in my pocket. YAY!
I hate that there isn’t a convenient bank on my new commute, i.e. inside the building or around the corner. I guess I’ve been spoiled. There’s always been a [...]
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Oh dear. I still write paper checks for my HOA fee. I like to have an imaged copy of it, but I suppose I can get away from paper checks now primarily because of my sheer laziness outweighs the check writing. I have no impetus for ordering new checks. I don’t need to express myself [...]
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There’s a new graph available now.
A small improvement. I thought I had adjusted my car asset down last month, but I see that I didn’t so I did that this month. My car is depreciating so I knocked it down a bit. I don’t actually think I could get $5K for it on the open [...]
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I figured out the problem of the returned check fee on my credit card account.
I pulled money into my credit card account for a payment, rather than push out from the checking account. Therein is the problem. In my haste, apparently, I picked the wrong account. I really hate paying on the credit card company’s [...]
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Trudy’s in Austin has some amazing food.
I was out in the field camping this past weekend. It was fabulously rainy. I don’t think I ever dried out. Many thanks to SFOrdinaryGirl for her guest post while I was gone.
Anyhow, it was a good thing not to rent a car this weekend. Finding a ride in [...]
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Yes indeedy. I did it.
I am cheesed off with Wachovia for charging me to download from within Quicken, but not so cheesed off as to kill that account. I really do feel more comfortable with a brick and mortar bank locally. So this means my Philadelphia based checking bank is going the way of the [...]
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1) The commenters saying online bill payment is the way to go are absolutely correct. However, there is a small catch at the moment with doing this. I’m shopping for a different checking account in VA. I am royally irritated with Wachovia for charging Quicken users from avoiding the Wachovia website. While I have been [...]
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Normally I leave my outgoing mail next to the front door so I don’t forget to take it on my way out. Last month, I had two checks ready to pay off a credit card and my HOA fee. Unfortunately, it seems that I never mailed them. I had to pay a late fee for [...]
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