http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=327x877Oh my.
The Tolstoy primitive, who has
NOT donated to Skins's island:
warren pease (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-18-09 03:10 PM
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A question only the financially naive would ask, but ...
How do you cash a check without a bank account? The issuing bank is back east with no local presence that I'm aware of. I'm on an all cash, account-free basis since a period during which I had to short-sell the house, lost the car to the repo man, and maxed out credit cards (yeah, I know how stupid that is, but try telling your wife she has to deal with the pain from that abscessed tooth because I don't want to put $8K -- that we don't have -- on a card).
Anyway, without going to one of those seedy, usurious check-cashing places, is there a way to cash a legitimate check -- backed by adequate funds -- without an account someplace?
Oh, and that checking worthiness service whose name escapes me won't let me have a new account because of my recent history of scofflawism.
Yes, the Bush Economic Miracle has been very, very good to me...
It's really odd; no primitives ever showed up at this bonfire, given that primitives are perhaps experts in handling such a quandary.
Can anybody here help the Tolstoy primitive?
Anybody remember the time the late red round one wrote a bad check to the "JoanAlpern" primitive, the psychotic psychic, and it bounced?
What I could never figure out about that one was that a psychic is supposed to be able to foretell the future, and so why she didn't know it was a bad check until she tried to cash it, escapes me.