Daily Accomplishment

Back in the day banks used to send you your cancelled checks. That way you could see that they had cleared...who cashed them...etc. etc. etc. Back in the day my mom worked in the banking and finance industry in many different capacities. She volunteered as our church treasurer for many many years and she'd call on us kids to help her from time to time. I LOVED helping. My big job was to sort the church's returned/cancelled checks into numerical order. So, off to the living room I'd go and lay out all the checks on the electric blue carpet. If it were a lot of check I'd start sorting into big bunches...like all the 100's, 200's, 300's, etc. And then I'd take the 100's and sort into groups of tens and so on and so on until all the checks were in order. **I also used to walk the half block to Mrs. Schefelbein's house to deliver her paycheck for being the nursery attendant**

My mom was a really good banker...she was ambidextrous...she could operate her adding machine with both hands! She taught me how to count cash three times...yes, three times. Because if you only counted twice and both times got you different numbers how would you know which is right? Whereas if you count it three times then at least two times would be the same and that was probably the right count. She taught me how to flip through checks really fast using the eraser at the top of your pencil in the upper right hand corners of the checks. She also once refused to close a month's statement at the church when it didn't balance. Now, it was only off by a quarter and our minister offered to just give her the quarter to balance it out...but that's not the point. That quarter was there somewhere and by golly she eventually found it!

So...fast forward to today and I still love to do home banking! I LOVE LOVE LOVE office supplies that make my office more organized and pretty. I love a fresh pack of pens and highlighters. I love an empty accordion file at the beginning of the year. I love closing up last year's accordion file. I LOVE LOVE LOVE when our paychecks come in and I can open Quicken and everything balances and is accounted for and the bills are paid. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the feeling of paid bills. Would I like to hold on to some more of that cash? Sure...but it's so satisfying to know that God provides for us and we are good stewards and take care of ourselves.

Tonight was one of those nights...all paid...all stamped...all addressed...all balanced! Yippee!