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Ordering Checks Online

Have you ever wondered where your friends get their cute checks, and why you’re stuck with the boring, ho-hum designs your bank offers? Chances are, your friends are ordering their checks online, and are able to choose from hundreds of cute patterns. I’ve been ordering my checks online for years, and love it. First, do a little research into the company you’d like to use. My two favorites are Checks in the Mail and Current. Both these companies offer safe online ordering and they have really reasonable prices, both for checks and for shipping, and you can get personal checks, … Continue reading →

The Quarter, Part 2

Be sure to read Part 1 of the story. We went from radiology back to the triage area. Then the nurse put Jessie in a bed. After examining Jessie the doctor decided that it would be best for her to go to Children’s Dallas. When I brought up that I had wanted to go to Children’s first, the nurses told us that it we did the right thing going to the closer hospital. It would have been easy for us to leave the hospital and head out for Children’s. We were halfway there already. The reason the doctor was sending … Continue reading →

Checkbook Registers and the People Who Hate Them

I have a love-hate relationship with my checkbook register. Okay, let’s be really honest – I have a hate-hate relationship with it. I dislike writing everything down on those tiny little lines, and then not being able to read my own handwriting, and then wondering if that is a 7 or a 1, because if it’s a 7, then it’s a different purchase than the one I made which ended in a 1, and the whole thing won’t reconcile anyway, so what’s the point? In a fit of pique this morning, I said to my husband, “Why do we even … Continue reading →

The Lost Art of Counting Back Change

Way back in the day, shopkeepers ran tallies of numbers in their heads as they looked over your purchases. In some grocery stores, the cashiers were required to know the prices of all the products. And when it came time to pay, they would count back your change without the aid of their cash register. In today’s fast-paced, technology-driven world, there isn’t time. We have scanners to tell us the prices and feed them directly into the cash register, which is more like a computer than ever before. When we’re done, we hit a button and we’re told how much … Continue reading →