Thank you for sharing your experience. It really looks surreal (and a bit creepy). I'm glad you are back safely. DD really wanted to return to Norway but it's pretty impossible to get in or out (Americans she knows there keep getting their flights cancelled the night before) plus there would be a 2-week quarantine both ways so she gave up. It's sad.
I hope your DD gets to start school in the Fall and that things will get back to normal soon.
ETA - are you seeing people here with masks? I'm not. We wear cloth ones when we go out walking and I think I've only seen 2-3 people doing the same.
I took my newborn to the pediatrician a few weeks ago, and other than the staff, I was the only one wearing a mask. When DH went to do a drug test for his new job, someone was actually arguing with him, because he was wearing a mask. He had a handful of N95 masks from before COVID, so he was wearing one, and someone else waiting was trying to convince him that he shouldn't be wearing that mask because of the PPE shortage, and that "it doesn't help anyway."
This was about a month ago...but still. It's such a strange world we live in.
In other news, 10 years ago, when Disney was running their AP promotion where current AP holders could refer others and both parties would get a$25 GC, I'm pretty sure I sent one of my referral cards to you!
Man I’m sorry for you guys but I LOVE a good BofA is EVIL story!!! Some things never change...
My parents are oddly loyal to BofA. I don't really understand why. My Mom was all excited, when she had her IRA there, because they gave her "special" treatment every time she went to a branch, since she had over a certain amount in her accounts with them. I was like...but what kind of fees are they charging you?
I opened a BofA account last year, because I need/ed to transfer an IRA to a different bank, and BofA is pretty much the only bank in this area that offers the right kind of signature verification to move the funds. I did get a new account bonus, so that's nice. But,
We have 8 years straight also. 3 kids, with a new one entering every other year. Our first is starting his senior year this August. So we also have 4 years straight of having two in at the same time. This year and next year will be roughest though. My last gets the best grades of them all so I’m hoping for a higher academic scholarship for her.
My spreadsheet indicates that if all our kids enter college at 18, and finish in 4 years, we will have at least one kid in college for 14 years straight. With 2 years when 2 kids overlap....
If they all do a mission for our church, then the overlap extends out to around 16 years. With 2 years 2 child overlap and 1 year 3 child overlap.
We have 529s for all of them, except the baby, but haven't chosen to put a ton in there thus far. I'm hoping to start to make more regular contributions by the end of this year, but we will see how that goes over.
Years ago I set up accounts for each of my kids and got probably a $100 bonus for doing so. At the time, I think it was ING.com (or something like that) which has since been taken over by capital one. At any rate, I now have 3 accounts with capital one that each have small amounts of money in them ($72, $116 & $85). One is in my name and the other 2 are in my youngest's names. My oldest DD transferred her money to an account just in her name, but I haven't gone through that process with the others.
Anyway, is there any reason in the credit card world to leave these accounts open? I don't have any other business with capital one and I doubt that accounts with these tiny balances would matter much, but I can leave them open if there's a reason I don't know about. If there is no reason, I'm just going to close them out. I never think about them until we get a yearly statement on them, so I'd like to deal with them one way or the other this year.
I can't think of a reason. I think most bonus offers tend to be towards pulling in new customers.
That officially puts him at 5/24 too!
