Can't really show you empathy on this one. Good job on driving the Honda but what's with renting two video games for $18.00? Also, for the money you spent on barbeque, you could have had at least two family steak dinners at home. Not critizing your leisure time spending choices, but they were choices.
@ Mr. Toughmoneylove,
Not gunning for empathy or sympathy on this one. Just seemed like an easy way to show just how far a Benjamin doesn't go these days.
@ Infidl:
Yeah, but the reason Wamu is paying that rate is because they're starved for cash. I try to not have my savings in banks whose stocks are trading around four bucks per share. FDIC insurance makes this a non-issue, I know, but it's a hassle I don't much want to mess with if I can help it.
Michael,
I know this is off-topic in a way, but ...
I don't see how there's any significant hassle potential w/an FDIC-insured account. My brother had a lot of money in a CD with IndyMac, and after the Feds came in it was maybe a day before it became IndyMac Federal Bank, FSB. Business as usual for him after that. Nothing changed but the bank name from his perspective. Such a small inconvenience is not something that I myself would lose sleep over, and the APY delta adds up to real money for me.
Isn't this what the grandpa's are supposed to tell us? "Back in my day I could eat a whole cow for 3 cents..." but I guess things are getting so bad, we get to skip a generation and tell these stories to our friends instead of children and grand children!
