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safeinOhio

(34,208 posts)
Sun Jun 3, 2012, 08:19 AM Jun 2012

Interest on checking account.

About nothing? I put my part time job check in a small account to pay most of my bills. Keep less than a grand or two in it and get about 3 cents a month interest on it.

So, now I go inside to make the deposit and grab a couple of their free ink pens every time. I have a friend with a business that hands out the same pens. Cost him 40 cents each. I'm getting about 3 bucks a month in pens. Never buy any and pass some out to friends.

I'm on a fat free, sugar free diet. So, I can also grab a free sucker, because it's free.

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Interest on checking account. (Original Post) safeinOhio Jun 2012 OP
sugar free diet? sounds more like free sugar diet. ret5hd Jun 2012 #1
Other than church suppers, I can't seem to safeinOhio Jun 2012 #2
What do you do with that many pens????? Curmudgeoness Jun 2012 #3
I like your style Sherman A1 Jun 2012 #4

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
3. What do you do with that many pens?????
Sun Jun 3, 2012, 05:29 PM
Jun 2012

I also get about 3 cents in interest a month, and I also feel free to keep the pens whenever I need one----but how many pens does someone need????

I would be better off taking a handful of suckers every time I go in.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
4. I like your style
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 05:09 AM
Jun 2012

grab everything you can, I do some similar things, just for the principle if nothing else. Use their restroom before you leave if you need might save you a bit of water at home. At work charge your cell phone on their electric, fill a cup with water for the drive home, even if you don't drink it all there is a plant or the grass that can use the rest. Don't forget to return those bank credit card offer postage paid envelopes (empty of course, oops forgot to include the form ) to help the USPS & to let them have their trash back.

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