No new news here. It is not about how much is in the account, but movement of money. We move/pay 5 figures same day all year around. Worrying about it is equivalent to wearing a tin can over your head.
Correct although I prefer the idea of an aluminum foil hat.
My bank will give me free registers. All I have to do is stop in and ask. They'll even give me new register holders if I ask.
My bank doesn't. But a different bank does, and they don't even ask me if I am a customer.
I don't use registers, but just hearing that a bank will do something free/nice is a little shocking.
No more free toasters though.
don't you keep an up to date current balance?
Yes. I enter every transaction when it occurs but I do occasionally miss one or a math error sneaks in. That’s what balancing is for, to catch things like that.
It’s a lot quicker to jot a transaction in my paper register than to get up from my desk, move over to the computer, log in, open a spreadsheet, and enter the transaction there.
Because I do not have my laptop with me when I'm out somewhere and have to write a check. Our local landfill does not accept credit or debit cards. Our town water department charges a fee if you use a card. Those are pretty much the only checks I write anymore.
No, many give a lot of cash to open an account
Yeah! I like that better.
Every couple days. Its also nice to flip back to the deposits and see how our overall balance is doing.
Do you know the amounts of those checks in advance? If so you could write them at home.
IIRC Armchair does not have a smartphone.
Each of my CU “drafts” (checks) create a carbonless copy. No pic needed.
When we wrote a bunch of checks monthly (back in the 90s!!!) we got a printer set up for printing checks, you could order a continuous ream of printable checks. That’s what first got us using Quicken - it was so much easier. Everything was on the computer (including register) because we almost never hand wrote a check.
