<\/p>\nMy credit card companies keep on mailing me “convenience checks.” These are checks I can use just like an ordinary check, except that the money will be charged to my credit card and I’ll be charged fifteen bucks for the privilege.<\/p>\n
What puzzles me is that they’re called “convenience” checks. As I recall, the sales pitch for credit cards (back when mass-marketed credit cards were new) was that they were supposed to be much more convenient than writing checks. Okay, so now, in order to make the credit cards I use instead of checks because they’re more convenient yet more convenient, I’m now supposed to write checks instead of using credit cards?<\/p>\n
Yeesh.<\/p>\n
In fact, they’re damn inconvenient, because I can’t just throw blank checks into the recycle bin and leave it on the curb; I’m fine with people going through my recycling for the bottles with deposits on ’em, but blank checks is another matter. So they have to be shredded.<\/p>\n
But we here at “Alas” headquarters prefer not to give our money to the corporate fascist makers of paper-shredding machines. So we’ve developed our own all-natural and holistic method of safely disposing of those “convenience” checks.<\/p>\n
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(Bet you were wondering what any of this had to do with baby blogging!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My credit card companies keep on mailing me “convenience checks.” These are checks I can use just like an ordinary check, except that the money will be charged to my credit card and I’ll be charged fifteen bucks for the … Continue reading