Check Your Bank Statements Every Month, If You Don’t You May Be Losing Money In Unexpected Ways.
Awhile back I got the dreaded letter from the bank saying you are overdrawn. I couldn’t believe it, I wondered what the heck did I do?
Then I opened it up and I was overdrawn by over a thousand dollars and I was real concerned.
I called the bank and they told me the $3000 dollar check that I had written was insufficient. Well I did not write a check for that amount but they assured me I did and told me where to.
I couldn’t believe I could do something so foolish but I called the company that I had written the check to and they said yep, that was what I wrote it for, and I was overpaid on my account.
Then we had to start the process of me getting the money back that I had overpaid, in the meantime I needed to do a quick transfer or I would have more insufficient checks.
After I got the check covered and started the return process of getting my money back I got to thinking I couldn’t have done anything that dumb.
So I called the bank and asked them if they were sure I had wrote it for that amount and she...