Dammit!

Two weeks ago, I sent checks in for my home equity loan and my electric bill. As of today, they have yet to be received or cashed.

These are bills I can't pay online. (Well, I can pay the electric bill online, but it'll cost me $1.50 to do so. Bastards.)

I'll just have to pay two months' worth when they're due again. And I'll need to remember to keep enough cash in the checking account to cover for them. *sigh*

[Updated 10:26 EST] I just double-checked my account and the electric bill check was recived and cashed. That's one less thing I need to worry about.

Throwing out old Christmas cards.....

Since I have some idle time at work, I've started going through the old Christmas and holiday cards I've received over the years. It's so much easier for me to just hold on to them and hoard them, but I need to go through them and get rid of them since I don't go through them regularly, and that I don't need to keep them.

Right now, I'm going through cards from 1997 and 1998. Part of me feels like I'm throwing away a part of a person if I'm throwing away their card, especially if they've included a message.

I'll probably snip off the stamps from the envelopes (I collect them), but I'll toss the addresses. I already have them in the database, and some of the ones on the envelopes are obsolete.

The next step is to cut the cards in half and save the fronts. celticferret knew of an organization that turns old holiday cards into puzzles.

[Updated 13:30 EST] Here's something I should ask. If you sent me a card years ago, and I threw it out today, would you feel offended or insulted?

The card go-through continues.....

Now I've reached the pile of wedding cards. R and I were married in August of 1999. I want to save these and make a scrapbook, along with the rest of the wedding stuff, but a part of me says it's a moot point, a wasted effort.

We were so happy together back then.