It is a fairly small amount of money but if it weren’t, and if the check bounced, I imagine it would cause all sorts of shit for the people who were actually on the check.
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Not nearly as annoying as the bank errors above, but it reminded me of a time I was using the ATM. The screen started flashing strangely, then changed to out of service. It ate my card, and my bank made me pay $5 for a replacement card (it wasn’t my bank’s ATM that ate the card).
My dad’s two brothers both had an account at the same bank. Same last name, obviously, different first names and different addresses as they were well into adulthood when this went down. Last name is fairly unusual. Brother A makes a deposit, but he didn’t have a deposit slip with him, so he had the teller look it up. “I found your account Mr. Blatch!” Writes the account number down and completes the deposit.
Deposit not in Brother A’s account; it’s in Brother B’s account. Brother B closes his account, hoping he’ll get to keep the money and the bank will just eat the mistake. 
Brother A is fighting with bank to get his money. Bank wants him to get it from Brother B, who isn’t cooperating.
Bank finally gave Brother A the money and eventually sent enough threatening letters to Brother B that he repaid it, but what a mess! I wonder what amount they would have considered de minimus and let Brother B keep it.
I’m pretty sure in our set that card is $100. Maybe $150.
I have a version of Monopoly so old it was before they changed the rules to allow you to mortgage a property while you owned houses/hotels or to build while you had mortgaged properties.
And the bank error is $200. There’s something else that’s $150 though… can’t recall what.
I guess one of them is life insurance matures. Something else about doctor’s bill that I might be thinking of…
Life insurance matures is $100.
Doctor’s fee is $50 and hospital fee is $100.
The $150 that I was thinking of earlier is building loan matures.
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That’s right.
I put off a lot of things that I committed to finish by the end of this week. So instead of NGing an F tomorrow, I will be giving too many. Boo.
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So we have a large kitchen cabinet full of roll out shelves that is our pantry. My wife has a tendency to buy a lot of random things when she goes grocery shopping, and I warned her several times that we needed to work on eating what was there and not keep stockpiling. Or else the roll out shelves would fail. And today, that happened. The top shelf failed, fell on the next shelf, which failed, and so on.
So now I have 150lb of groceries on the floor. Some dents in the hardwood. And a project to do, finding parts and trying to fix it all.
ETA: my fancy-pants balsamic was NOT in this cabinet and was not harmed.
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Husband forgot to make me coffee in the morning either yesterday or the day before - and this morning his priorities were breakfast, kids, pants, drive kids to school, check email, fuzz the kitty, THEN coffee.
Are we legally separated now?
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LOL. I feel this so much but from the other side. After Christmas break I totally spaced on starting the coffee after getting up and feeding the dogs. I’m not a daily coffee drinker and I’d gotten out of the habit during break. My spouse was like, “Did I do something? Are you mad at me?”
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Every morning (every morning) I drive to 7-11 to get my wife coffee. i don’t drink coffee, nor do I but seldom buy anything for myself there.
I go probably 350 days a year.
#husbandoftheyear
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Fuzz the kitty should be higher.
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I have not been drinking coffee but today I wanted some and hubby did not read my mind.
Also I was running “late” bc I had to scrape ice off the car windows.
*earlier than usual bc I had a chiropractor appt.
Exhibit #372 of why I’m not married.
Why do you not have a coffee maker?
I set up our coffee maker every night. Sometimes I set the timer, sometimes I hit the button when I get up to feed the dog.
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Gotta agree with others, get a $30 coffee maker.
It is a sweet gesture, but 350x/year both financially and time-value floors me. Could probably save ~$500 and a lot of time each year.
(No idea what a 7/11 coffee costs, guessing it’s like $2.)