@Anonymous wrote:If theres a local branch just walk in and pay with a check or cash in branch. I pay my US bank and BOA in cash regularly. Us bank in particular usually tries to offer me a nice sign on bonus to open a checking account when i do it. Eventually i might take em up on it, but i have enough credit union accounts. I just pay cash because I bartend and make cash, plus have to drive past 2 us bank branches on my 10 block drive to work.
About the only cash I get these days is for duty gear, so this all goes to one of our auto loans.
Everything else is CC via square or checks or payroll DD.. 
@Anonymous wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
I pay all my bills by check unless I can pay by CC with a net gain on rewards.
If I'm going to sit down and balance my register against the paper statement it's hardly more trouble to cut a check.
Plus I just find writing checks pleasant for whatever reason.I truly don't understand how writing checks could be considered "pleasant."
And I would call you weird, except that I actually get great pleasure out of reconciling each and every of my credit card, bank and savings accounts each month. There's something very satisfying about getting everything to balance out to the penny. It's particularly exciting when I can reconcile a busy account, and everything matches with no question. More often, there's a transfer I've forgotten to enter, or an automatic payment that I didn't account for, or some such. And the momentary dissonance caused by the discrepancy makes the resolution when I discover the reason and make the appropriate entry all the sweeter when everything reconciles to zero. Ahhhh, balance in my universe.
So, who's weirder?
Chris.
+1!!!!! I am a nut when it comes to reconciling and making sure every penny is accounted for! I use YNAB software and I love how it is all neatly plugged in.
@Anonymous wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
I pay all my bills by check unless I can pay by CC with a net gain on rewards.
If I'm going to sit down and balance my register against the paper statement it's hardly more trouble to cut a check.
Plus I just find writing checks pleasant for whatever reason.I truly don't understand how writing checks could be considered "pleasant."
And I would call you weird, except that I actually get great pleasure out of reconciling each and every of my credit card, bank and savings accounts each month. There's something very satisfying about getting everything to balance out to the penny. It's particularly exciting when I can reconcile a busy account, and everything matches with no question. More often, there's a transfer I've forgotten to enter, or an automatic payment that I didn't account for, or some such. And the momentary dissonance caused by the discrepancy makes the resolution when I discover the reason and make the appropriate entry all the sweeter when everything reconciles to zero. Ahhhh, balance in my universe.
So, who's weirder?
Chris.
+1!!!!! I am a nut when it comes to reconciling and making sure every penny is accounted for! I use YNAB software and I love how it is all neatly plugged in.
Lol people still reconcile? I just make sure my payments match my bank account and let online banking do the mathy parts.
@Anonymous wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
I pay all my bills by check unless I can pay by CC with a net gain on rewards.
If I'm going to sit down and balance my register against the paper statement it's hardly more trouble to cut a check.
Plus I just find writing checks pleasant for whatever reason.I truly don't understand how writing checks could be considered "pleasant."
And I would call you weird, except that I actually get great pleasure out of reconciling each and every of my credit card, bank and savings accounts each month. There's something very satisfying about getting everything to balance out to the penny. It's particularly exciting when I can reconcile a busy account, and everything matches with no question. More often, there's a transfer I've forgotten to enter, or an automatic payment that I didn't account for, or some such. And the momentary dissonance caused by the discrepancy makes the resolution when I discover the reason and make the appropriate entry all the sweeter when everything reconciles to zero. Ahhhh, balance in my universe.
So, who's weirder?
Chris.
+1!!!!! I am a nut when it comes to reconciling and making sure every penny is accounted for! I use YNAB software and I love how it is all neatly plugged in.
Lol people still reconcile? I just make sure my payments match my bank account and let online banking do the mathy parts.
It is part of the budget software I use! It is done in a way to make you be more active with your finances. I love it! I am not addicted to credit apps/credit limits....but I am very addcited to saving and seeing those numbers (emergency funds/savings/retirement funds) go up every month! It started several years ago after a bad divorce and being left with nothing. Goal is to have my mortage paid off before I turn 40. I never get car loans, I pay in cash and drive them till the wheels fall off, lol. But it sure feels good to be debt free and own your home free and clear.
