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    <title>topic Re: Garden Club - October 2019 in Personal Finance</title>
    <link>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5776820#M127237</link>
    <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;@Anonymous&amp;nbsp;wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;@Anonymous&amp;nbsp;wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;@Anonymous&amp;nbsp;wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;@Anonymous&amp;nbsp;wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;@Anonymous&amp;nbsp;wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;P&gt;I can't today. Somebody shoot me plz.&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I was looking at new Medicare plans and if I switch from Original Medicare to Advantage, I either lose my primary care or my psychiatrist and therapist but gain $2K of dental plus vision (and hearing but trust me, no problems there)... Always a trade off with these things. I guess I'll keep Original Medicare for now and change later if I need to. Since I'm dual eligible, I can change plans year round instead of just during open enrollment.&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Sync reported Marvel today. AAoA dropped to 2 years on EX. Citi will close on the 23rd (they put my request to change my due date in immediately which is kind of nice I suppose) which means NFCU can report the $400 I paid them before the $1064 gets added by Citi which will bring my revolving from $3006 to $3670. Highest I've had since my BK so I'm on a very tight budget. No extraneous spending period until I get the balances down. $700 a month going towards credit cards (actually $1100 but $350-$400 goes to cable, cell, and grocery budgets).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;5 months to $0 isn't too awful.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Probably going to stop coming to the forum as much for a bit. Gotta really dig myself into the garden.&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Back to my DC shows. In the past two days I have watched 12 episodes of Supergirl and 12 episodes of Arrow to finish the last seasons. On to Flash today then I have to watch all of Legends of Tomorrow and I can start on the current seasons. It's weird how I can go hating TV for so long and then go binge for days on end. 🤷‍♂️&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;The new medicare advantage plans are very interesting and appear to offer more coverge for a lot less money.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; We had been using regional provider for part G and United for D now it appears we will save over $2,000 and get more stuff free by going with BC/BS advanatge plan.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;In other larger savings shopped for home owners&amp;nbsp; got better coverage for $350 LESS with progressive on a car bundle.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Sign me up&lt;/P&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;Yeah they definitely are adding more value to them. I don't pay for mine, it's paid by Medicaid, but even if I had to pay for mine it would be $0 after the Part B premium which is going to $140 next year I believe. Honestly not bad for comprehensive medical, vision, and dental compared to 2019 plans that lacked vision and dental and still had no additional cost for the Part D coverage.&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Honestly I haven't had too many complaints with Medicare other than the fact that my Medicare eligibility actually cost me the ability to have my therapist come to my home since Medicare won't cover any of it. In general, Medicare isn't that bad. I have had both UHC and Humana HMOs based on what doctors I was working with. I don't like Original Medicare as much but the freedom to go see whatever doctor I want to without having to call and change PCPs or entire medical groups is convenient.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;Medicare is ok if you shop plans. DW because of her "little" problem that is now 8 years old has to take two Rx. At one time they both tier 2 with any body. Now they run from tier&amp;nbsp; 2 to tier 4 depending onthe insurance.&amp;nbsp; My biggest pet peave is Walgreens. 1) we use the 24 hour&amp;nbsp; one even though its further away&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;The line is always 30 minutes inside and drive trhough.&amp;nbsp; 2) Their tech put Good Rx on one of DW Rx so it did not count toward insurance.&amp;nbsp; They would not fix it.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Their tech cost us over $500 extra in out of pocket&amp;nbsp; 3) For some reason with current insurance mail orer is higher than Walgreens and 4) Walmart pharmacy is not even on the approved list and its easiest to get to .&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;I am fortunate that diazepam is ridiculously cheap. Even if I didn't have prescription coverage, it would cost me $6 with GoodRX for 60 2mg tablets a month. Formulary restrictions actually saved me from my psychiatrist being able to experiment even further on me with Saphris and Latuda -- they're atypical antipsychotics, a class I generally don't get along with at all (Zyprexa actually makes me hallucinate, dilated pupils and all, which is incredibly odd and all of the ones I have had except Geodon cause tachycardia). We deduced from my list of drugs that I have had heart issues with that it's only ones that have muscarinic affinity that cause me to have tachycardia and Saphris and Latuda apparently have next to none. I was totally against the idea but my psychiatrist was pushing them on me until she looked up the formulary and realized that I would be paying $400 a month for Saphris and $2K for Latuda. That's when she relented and let me go by with just Valium.&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I don't like Walgreens. I actually probably will never use Walgreens pharmacy again. They get the worst generics for many drugs, with formulations that just don't get absorbed properly or in the case of Mylan, don't even have enough of the active ingredient (they have gotten in trouble with the FDA for this a few times - it looks like it happened again just last year&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/warning-letters/mylan-pharmaceuticals-inc-557903-11092018" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/warning-letters/mylan-pharmaceuticals-inc-557903-11092018&lt;/A&gt;), and they gave me a lot of hassle on custom orders of alternate brands in their catalog that actually do work correctly. I have dealt with some really rude reps there and one time I literally watched this guy text on his phone for 5 minutes while both the lobby and the drive thru were slammed and he was one of two people there around 10 or 11PM. It doesn't surprise me at all that they refused to fix their mistake but I certainly would not have paid for it either.&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Other than one employee at King Soopers who is a racist and has come after two of my personal care assistants despite notes saying that I will be sending them to pick up my meds, I haven't had any other problems since I switched after I ended up in the ER in full-blown withdrawal from the last batch of Mylan diazepam they gave me in early 2013. King Soopers has had Teva generics the entire time and that's one of two generics I put on the same level as Roche V-cuts, the other being Watson.&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I really am fine with Original Medicare since I have UHC for my prescription drug plan but the $200 towards glasses, free eye exam, and $2K towards dental are features wouldn't mind having -- there is even an over the counter allowance of $170 per quarter. If I switched from Original Medicare to advantage though, I have to see an LCSW for therapy which means I'll have to change therapists again so I'll just wait until I actually need those benefits and then make the change.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;Its not right that were using you for a beta tester atleast the insurance kept them from it.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Well it looks like we will be stuck with another year of walgreens.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;I can hardly wait.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;I would gladly go to Walmart or CVS if they were on the list.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;The free lance guy is on the approved list but his hours are 9 AM to 3 PM that does not work&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;at all.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2019 01:22:10 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2019-10-17T01:22:10Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Garden Club - October 2019</title>
      <link>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759919#M123340</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-left" image-alt="transparent-background-halloween-png-clipart.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/skins/images/1016DDE6E8A3DBE3D1BDC0DDC9D9B334/responsive_peak/images/image_not_found.png" alt="transparent-background-halloween-png-clipart.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;FONT color="#FF6600"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT size="6" face="book antiqua,palatino,serif"&gt;Welcome &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;FONT color="#FF6600"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT size="6" face="book antiqua,palatino,serif"&gt;Garden Club Members!&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt; &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;FONT face="trebuchet ms,geneva,sans-serif"&gt;Welcome all new GCers, returning GCers &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;FONT face="trebuchet ms,geneva,sans-serif"&gt;and old timers &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;FONT face="trebuchet ms,geneva,sans-serif"&gt;to our little island of &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;FONT face="trebuchet ms,geneva,sans-serif"&gt;"No Credit Applications"! &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;What is gardening?&lt;/EM&gt;&amp;nbsp; Quite simply, it involves refraining from applying for new credit or seeking CLIs that require hard pulls. Soft pull CLIs, however, are not only acceptable, but are encouraged. The idea is to allow one's current trade lines&amp;nbsp;to grow and mature, waiting for inquiries&amp;nbsp;to age or fall off, and possibly waiting for "baddies" to be removed/age off. During this time, one tends to one's current accounts and watches their AAoA (average age of accounts) grow and the new credit ding fade. Here we socialize, commiserate and support each other while waiting for baddies to fall off, new accounts and/or inquiries to age or if we just want a place to hang out to get away from the hustle and bustle of credit card talk.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;So, if you're at the stage of your credit journey where you're ready to enter the garden, please come and join us. You may pick up your complimentary watering can and garden gloves by the front door - you can even choose your favorite color! We're proud to offer a well-appointed clubhouse. There is a snack table set up.&amp;nbsp;&lt;SPAN&gt;You'll always find&amp;nbsp;camaraderie&amp;nbsp;available here as you work towards your gardening goals.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;Help yourself to our drinks and appetizers. Flat-breads, sliders, pizza, buffalo wings, grilled zucchini, kale salads, pecan and apple pie&amp;nbsp;à la mode. There's also a nice selection of cold beers. Once again, please feel free to bring anything you'd like to add to the festivities. And, in the corner diagonally across from the front door, there is a fully stocked bar, along with a wide selection of soft drinks. If needed, there are some anti-itch medications stocked in our supply cabinet near the door - Lanacaine, Benadryl, etc. If you need to place your reports in the deep freeze, we also have a freezer, located next to the bar, so go ahead and throw your reports in!&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;So come on in and make yourself comfortable. Make a gardening plan and commit to sticking with it! Are you planning to wait six months before applying for additional credit? A year? Until the last of your baddies drop off? Whatever your goal, we're here to support you. If you feel the "app-itch" coming on, let us know and we'll try to help you through it.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Now, if you happen to leave the garden prematurely,&amp;nbsp;that's your decision and we respect that. You are always welcome to come back, pick up your gardening tools and start over again. But please, celebrate any approvals and the discussion of which credit card to app for on another thread. While we are happy with members’ success stories, we really do want to keep this&amp;nbsp;threads focus and tone to be consistent with gardening efforts. You are certainly welcome to celebrate SP CLIs in this thread, as they do not involve inquiries or apps for new credit.&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;To maintain the 'spirit' of the Garden Club, any discussion regarding credit apps and/or approvals (including approval announcements) is subject to be removed from Garden Club posts by a moderator and/or your post may be moved to a new thread on the appropriate board.&amp;nbsp; Thanks for understanding!&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;GARDEN CLUB CHALLENGE AND RECOGNITIONS:&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Garden Club Challenge: Pick a firm date for staying in the garden and post it in your siggy!&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Garden Club recognition levels: To qualify, your reports must contain:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;No new tradelines of any type on one's accounts (this includes any backdated accounts, as they are STILL new "seedlings").&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;No HPs for anything that would allow for the possibility of a new tradeline being issued or increasing the CL of an existing tradeline.&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;*The Garden Club community recognizes that certain inquiries are necessary for factors beyond those listed above. Therefore, Hard Pulls/Inquiries for the following bona fide reasons are exempt but not limited to: Opening checking/savings accounts (so long as no line of credit is being opened in addition to these accounts), employment applications, apartment rentals, utilities and other such services. These are not considered to be applications for credit per se.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Also, for those who are seeking a new mortgage or refinancing an existing one, we understand that your lender will pull your credit reports multiple times before closing. For those GC'ers, the first HP will set your clock, not the subsequent pulls. However, if you are simply rate shopping, then the normal HP rules apply.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;You will be able to add the following to your siggy if you have been abiding by the above for the following time periods...&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="padding-left: 270px;"&gt;Less than 1 month - seedling&lt;BR /&gt;1 month - bronze spade&lt;BR /&gt;3 months - silver spade&lt;BR /&gt;6 months - gold spade&lt;BR /&gt;9 months - palladium spade&lt;BR /&gt;12 months - platinum spade&lt;BR /&gt;15 months - ruby &lt;BR /&gt;18 months - emerald &lt;BR /&gt;21 months - sapphire &lt;BR /&gt;24 months or more - diamond&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Please note: recognition levels reset once you add an account or incur a HP. We recognize that there may be very good reasons for "leaving the garden," and we respect whatever thoughtful decisions members make. As stated previously, members are always welcome to come back, grab their gloves and start gardening once more.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;To add the code, click '&lt;A href="http://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/user/myprofilepage/tab/personal-profile" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;My Settings&lt;/A&gt;', then 'Personal Information', then paste the code into the 'Signature' box.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;When you're finished, be sure to click 'Save' at the bottom of the page!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;*&lt;EM&gt;New forum members may be unable to add/edit HTML; see note below.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;To ensure that your graphic comes out properly on your siggy, please be certain that it has been added as the very first line of code.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Seedling:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="seedling-transparent.png" style="width: 50px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/2760iB9166C1A493A3CBC/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="seedling-transparent.png" alt="seedling-transparent.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;PRE&gt;&amp;lt;img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/2760iB9166C1A493A3CBC" title="Seedling Garden Club Member" border="0" width="50" height="67" align="right"&amp;gt;&lt;/PRE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;Bronze:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="BronzeSpade.png" style="width: 40px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/33673iA9327A27227FE439/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="BronzeSpade.png" alt="BronzeSpade.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;PRE&gt;&amp;lt;img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/33673iA9327A27227FE439" border="0" title="Bronze Garden Club Member" width="40" height="40" align="right"&amp;gt;&lt;/PRE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;Silver:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="SilverSpade.png" style="width: 40px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/33675i85072060A7E9ED9F/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="SilverSpade.png" alt="SilverSpade.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;PRE&gt;&amp;lt;img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/33675i85072060A7E9ED9F" border="0" title="Silver Garden Club Member" width="40" height="40" align="right"&amp;gt;&lt;/PRE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;Gold:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="GoldSpade.png" style="width: 40px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/33674i6D97EA62D60FAA1E/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="GoldSpade.png" alt="GoldSpade.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;PRE&gt;&amp;lt;img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/33674i6D97EA62D60FAA1E" border="0" title="Gold Garden Club Member" width="40" height="40" align="right"&amp;gt;&lt;/PRE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;Palladium:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="palladium.png" style="width: 40px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/5761iE36E284CEECEA414/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="palladium.png" alt="palladium.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;PRE&gt;&amp;lt;img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/5761iE36E284CEECEA414" title="Palladium Garden Club Member" border="0" width="40" height="40" align="right"&amp;gt;&lt;/PRE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;Platinum:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="PlatinumSpade.png" style="width: 120px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/33676i7D22867F5B8C8548/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="PlatinumSpade.png" alt="PlatinumSpade.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;PRE&gt;&amp;lt;img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/33676i7D22867F5B8C8548" border="0" title="Platinum Garden Club Member" width="120" height="80" align="right"&amp;gt;&lt;/PRE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;Ruby:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="ruby.png" style="width: 40px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/5625i09098E9833D7A4B2/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="ruby.png" alt="ruby.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;PRE&gt;&amp;lt;img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/5625i09098E9833D7A4B2" border="0" title="Ruby Garden Club Member" width="40" height="40" align="right"&amp;gt;&lt;/PRE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;Emerald:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="emerald.png" style="width: 40px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/5623i698C4BF1F9D77284/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="emerald.png" alt="emerald.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;PRE&gt;&amp;lt;img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/5623i698C4BF1F9D77284" border="0" width="40" title="Emerald Garden Club Member" height="40" align="right"&amp;gt;&lt;/PRE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;Sapphire&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="saphire.png" style="width: 40px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/5627iA714E0C3C98AD3FD/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="saphire.png" alt="saphire.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;PRE&gt;&amp;lt;img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/5627iA714E0C3C98AD3FD" border="0" width="40" title="Sapphire Garden Club Member" height="40" align="right"&amp;gt;&lt;/PRE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;Diamond&lt;/STRONG&gt;:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Diamond.png" style="width: 40px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/33677iDA1FD49740EB050B/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="Diamond.png" alt="Diamond.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;PRE&gt;&amp;lt;img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/33677iDA1FD49740EB050B" border="0" title="Diamond Garden Club Member" width="40" height="40" align="right"&amp;gt;&lt;/PRE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;So, please feel free to come on in and share your gardening progress. If you're new or returning, what are your goals? If you've been here for a while, how are things going? Let's all mingle, and support each other in our respective gardening efforts!&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="BlackCat.gif"&gt;&lt;img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/skins/images/1016DDE6E8A3DBE3D1BDC0DDC9D9B334/responsive_peak/images/image_not_found.png" alt="BlackCat.gif" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;*Just a reminder, if you are new to the forum you may not be able to add a seedling or spade to your profile yourself; &lt;STRONG&gt;a rank of "Member" is required to add HTML to your signature.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp; In this case send any moderator a PM and we'll add it for you.&amp;nbsp; &lt;img id="smileywink" class="emoticon emoticon-smileywink" src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-wink.gif" alt="Smiley Wink" title="Smiley Wink" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;You can also&amp;nbsp;use the "Report Inappropriate Content" option on any post to notify a moderator; be sure to indicate&amp;nbsp;that you need _____ spade. (seedling, bronze, etc.)&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:00:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759919#M123340</guid>
      <dc:creator>UncleB</dc:creator>
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      <title>Re: Garden Club - October 2019</title>
      <link>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759920#M123341</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Happy October gals and guys&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Good news: September is over&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Bad news: September is over&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Worse news: ?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;img id="smileylol" class="emoticon emoticon-smileylol" src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-lol.gif" alt="Smiley LOL" title="Smiley LOL" /&gt;&lt;img id="smileyindifferent" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyindifferent" src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-indifferent.gif" alt="Smiley Indifferent" title="Smiley Indifferent" /&gt;&lt;img id="smileysad" class="emoticon emoticon-smileysad" src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-sad.gif" alt="Smiley Sad" title="Smiley Sad" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:01:04 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759920#M123341</guid>
      <dc:creator>simplynoir</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-10-01T04:01:04Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Garden Club - October 2019</title>
      <link>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759921#M123342</link>
      <description>In on 1!!!</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:01:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759921#M123342</guid>
      <dc:creator>Felony_Phil</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-10-01T04:01:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Garden Club - October 2019</title>
      <link>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759922#M123343</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Happy September!&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:01:22 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759922#M123343</guid>
      <dc:creator>Brian_Earl_Spilner</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-10-01T04:01:22Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Garden Club - October 2019</title>
      <link>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759923#M123344</link>
      <description>&lt;P class="p1"&gt;Happy October, everyone!&lt;SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;It’s been 5 months today since I last opened a new account and tomorrow will be 4 months since my last HP.&lt;SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;Gold Spade here I come!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P class="p2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P class="p1"&gt;Going to take this month to examine my hotel and airline strategy for 2020, and card lineup in general.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:01:22 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759923#M123344</guid>
      <dc:creator>K-in-Boston</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-10-01T04:01:22Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Garden Club - October 2019</title>
      <link>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759924#M123345</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;#6 is not bad, since i got **bleep** logged out of myFICO&lt;img id="smileyfrustrated" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyfrustrated" src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-frustrated.gif" alt="Smiley Frustrated" title="Smiley Frustrated" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:03:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759924#M123345</guid>
      <dc:creator>M_Smart007</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-10-01T04:03:15Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Garden Club - October 2019</title>
      <link>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759925#M123346</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Happy October Everyone !!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Not expecting a score jump til maybe next month but if the lords of FICO want to smile on me, thats ok too.&amp;nbsp; A couple SP CLI attempts onthe radar.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Good luck with score bumps and Penfed Q4&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:01:27 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759925#M123346</guid>
      <dc:creator>Meanmchine</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-10-01T04:01:27Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Garden Club - October 2019</title>
      <link>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759926#M123347</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Early bird&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:01:38 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759926#M123347</guid>
      <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-10-01T04:01:38Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Garden Club - October 2019</title>
      <link>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759927#M123348</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color="#FF6600"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Happy October, everyone!&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="wavey_zps81xnuobx.gif" style="width: 45px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/21684iA42B79A7A1EEAFC3/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="wavey_zps81xnuobx.gif" alt="wavey_zps81xnuobx.gif" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:01:39 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759927#M123348</guid>
      <dc:creator>UncleB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-10-01T04:01:39Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Garden Club - October 2019</title>
      <link>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759928#M123349</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Happy October.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Good Night.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:01:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759928#M123349</guid>
      <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-10-01T04:01:40Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Garden Club - October 2019</title>
      <link>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759929#M123350</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Happy October 🎃&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:01:44 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759929#M123350</guid>
      <dc:creator>shoegal</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-10-01T04:01:44Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Garden Club - October 2019</title>
      <link>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759930#M123351</link>
      <description>I rear ended ambulance&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;- 500 ficos&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;That's all</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:01:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759930#M123351</guid>
      <dc:creator>Remedios</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-10-01T04:01:45Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Garden Club - October 2019</title>
      <link>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759931#M123352</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="5"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;At least I beat...&lt;IMG src="https://i.imgur.com/2WYSEZZ.png?2" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="5"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN class="MessagesPositionInThread"&gt;Message &lt;A href="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759924#M123345" target="_blank"&gt;#6&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:07:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759931#M123352</guid>
      <dc:creator>M_Smart007</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-10-01T04:07:46Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Garden Club - October 2019</title>
      <link>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759932#M123353</link>
      <description>IPhone challenged on these things.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Happy October! May the harvest moon shine down on your SP CLIs.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:02:33 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759932#M123353</guid>
      <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-10-01T04:02:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Garden Club - October 2019</title>
      <link>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759933#M123354</link>
      <description>While I did bump into ambulance, I dont have a concussion so I know it's not October but I'll pretend with the rest of you</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:03:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759933#M123354</guid>
      <dc:creator>Remedios</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-10-01T04:03:36Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Garden Club - October 2019</title>
      <link>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759936#M123355</link>
      <description>I'm more impressed by getting in the last post 🤘🏻</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:03:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759936#M123355</guid>
      <dc:creator>Felony_Phil</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-10-01T04:03:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Garden Club - October 2019</title>
      <link>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759937#M123356</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="PhotoGrid_1569902611087.jpg" style="width: 999px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/50242i5E6C907AF80B3319/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="PhotoGrid_1569902611087.jpg" alt="PhotoGrid_1569902611087.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:03:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759937#M123356</guid>
      <dc:creator>Brian_Earl_Spilner</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-10-01T04:03:56Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Garden Club - October 2019</title>
      <link>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759938#M123357</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Here we are! Ready to eat all of the candy corn no one else wants&amp;nbsp;&lt;img id="manlol" class="emoticon emoticon-manlol" src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/i/smilies/16x16_man-lol.gif" alt="Man LOL" title="Man LOL" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:04:16 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759938#M123357</guid>
      <dc:creator>SEAlifer</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-10-01T04:04:16Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Garden Club - October 2019</title>
      <link>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759939#M123358</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1013436"&gt;@Remedios&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;While I did bump into ambulance, I dont have a concussion so I know it's not October but I'll pretend with the rest of you&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;Your west coast shenanigans smh. It better be what it's all cracked up to be when I'm there at the end of the month&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:04:24 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759939#M123358</guid>
      <dc:creator>simplynoir</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-10-01T04:04:24Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Garden Club - October 2019</title>
      <link>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759941#M123359</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1013436"&gt;@Remedios&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;I rear ended ambulance&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;- 500 ficos&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;That's all&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;Maybe you can plea bargin it down to simple Jaywalking&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:05:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Personal-Finance/Garden-Club-October-2019/m-p/5759941#M123359</guid>
      <dc:creator>Meanmchine</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-10-01T04:05:48Z</dc:date>
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