Though it's not worth much, money still matters.
Wednesday, 16 March 2016 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carose59"You Have A Favorite Number And A Lucky Number?"*
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I've used my last check; at least, I've used the last check in the last book of checks I can locate.
There should be more checks. They should be in the writing desk in the dining room, the one that used to be my grandmother's. (The writing desk, that is. Although the dining room also used to be my grandmother's. The whole house used to be my grandmother's.) There are two writing desks out there; the other one was Pat's, came from her family. Neither of them has any checks in it.
Now here's the problem. I don't write a lot of checks, but I find it unlikely I could have taken the last book of checks without it even flitting through my mind that maybe I should order more checks, or that I don't need to because I don't use checks much anymore. It's the sort of thing I would have noted; it's the sort of thing I would have thought about.
So where are the checks? Is there someplace else I would have put them? I have no idea where that would have been. I've looked around, but I haven't found any boxes of checks.
The only other possibility I can come up with is somebody stole them. This is not impossible, but my house hasn't been broken into in over two years, and would somebody really steal several boxes of checks and then not use them for over two years? This seems not only deeply improbable but bizarre.
It worries me when I can't follow the trail my own mind has blazed. If I can't follow my own thought process, how can I ever figure out what other people are thinking?
The check thing, and the problems with the credit union keep leading me to the idea of closing my account and opening one someplace where I won't have an anxiety attack every month just trying to pay my bills. I hate doing this because in theory I support the credit union.
And then there's where to open the new account.
Chase and PNC are out because my name is already on my mother's accounts there and I'm trying to uncomplicate my life. The two most obvious choices are Teachers Credit Union (which is right across the street from work) and Elements Credit Union.
The only reason I'm considering Teachers is its location and the fact that it's a credit union. Elements' connection to Eli Lilly makes me question their . . . lack of evil but I already have my health savings account there (because the library has a deal with them) so I'd just need to open a checking account. And they seem to have the better deal. But again, I worry about the evil.
And of course there's the whole talking-to-people thing and making-decisions thing, both of which require a lot of emotional wherewithal that I don't always have, so things don't get done. I waffle. I'm a waffle who can't order new checks until she knows where she should be ordering them from.
*Peters, Psych
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I've used my last check; at least, I've used the last check in the last book of checks I can locate.
There should be more checks. They should be in the writing desk in the dining room, the one that used to be my grandmother's. (The writing desk, that is. Although the dining room also used to be my grandmother's. The whole house used to be my grandmother's.) There are two writing desks out there; the other one was Pat's, came from her family. Neither of them has any checks in it.
Now here's the problem. I don't write a lot of checks, but I find it unlikely I could have taken the last book of checks without it even flitting through my mind that maybe I should order more checks, or that I don't need to because I don't use checks much anymore. It's the sort of thing I would have noted; it's the sort of thing I would have thought about.
So where are the checks? Is there someplace else I would have put them? I have no idea where that would have been. I've looked around, but I haven't found any boxes of checks.
The only other possibility I can come up with is somebody stole them. This is not impossible, but my house hasn't been broken into in over two years, and would somebody really steal several boxes of checks and then not use them for over two years? This seems not only deeply improbable but bizarre.
It worries me when I can't follow the trail my own mind has blazed. If I can't follow my own thought process, how can I ever figure out what other people are thinking?
The check thing, and the problems with the credit union keep leading me to the idea of closing my account and opening one someplace where I won't have an anxiety attack every month just trying to pay my bills. I hate doing this because in theory I support the credit union.
And then there's where to open the new account.
Chase and PNC are out because my name is already on my mother's accounts there and I'm trying to uncomplicate my life. The two most obvious choices are Teachers Credit Union (which is right across the street from work) and Elements Credit Union.
The only reason I'm considering Teachers is its location and the fact that it's a credit union. Elements' connection to Eli Lilly makes me question their . . . lack of evil but I already have my health savings account there (because the library has a deal with them) so I'd just need to open a checking account. And they seem to have the better deal. But again, I worry about the evil.
And of course there's the whole talking-to-people thing and making-decisions thing, both of which require a lot of emotional wherewithal that I don't always have, so things don't get done. I waffle. I'm a waffle who can't order new checks until she knows where she should be ordering them from.
*Peters, Psych