Ninety thousand pounds in my pajamas:

[jrittenhouse]

This year, we consolidated our bank stuff from three different banks to one local credit union; two of those banks had just been eaten in big-fish eats littler-fish takeovers (one of which was handled by the FDIC as the bank went bust), and we were paying a hideous amount of money in fees for sneezing wrong or looking at the bank candy bowl, the

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Bill pay

[hazelchaz]

What's worked for me: I don't have anything auto-widthdrawing money from my accounts. Instead, I have an ingdirect.com account and I have it automatically send money out. They still get paid automatically, but it means that I'm in control of who gets paid what and when.

And, this isn't the account that I use credit or ATM cards for, I have it just to receive money from my paycheck via direct deposit. If my wallet gets taken, it doesn't affect this account's numbers.

Re: Bill pay

[jrittenhouse]

Some outfits insist on it.

[wordweaverlynn]

That sounds like a vast project -- good for you for doing it.

[jrittenhouse]

It's something that must be done.

[tdanaher]

Around here, every time I scan something or update QuickBooks/Quicken, I "save as" a copy to both an external WD hard drive and a little 32gb Patriot thumb drive. You can fit a *ton* of backed-up financial paper work scans and accounting data on a 32gb thumb drive.

90,000 lbs.

[hazelchaz]

What do bananas have to do with the story, by the way?