re: Do You Balance Your Checkbook?

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I mean, you have to have some kind of balance, right?

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Very Zen-like...

I have an credit card account that updates me via email with each transaction.

I pay it off monthly from a separate account* after review.

Mrs Füt (no pics) has set up all the household accounts (utilities, property taxes, etc.) on Direct Deposit from a community Household Account. And we have an AMEX card account that is paid out from that account.

At our household, the COVID “lost year” resulted in a decent amount of money to stay in-house in the household account.

Enough to at least take a pretty grand tour of Bawcomville.

She regularly reconciles the household account. (She SAYS)

*This second account doesn’t exist anymore because I accidentally dropped it overboard while navigating some body of water.