You open the box today and find a bank passbook, but it is for a bank account you don’t remember.
Do you have dormant bank accounts or accounts you have forgotten about? Maybe it is time to shut them down (if they haven’t already been shut down) and try to get whatever money is in them back into your own hands. The banking industry takes that money for its own by either killing the account with service charges or simply marking the account as inactive and then taking the assets after a suitable period.
I had a group of accounts still open that I have shut down in the past little while. I viewed them as a security risk as well. If someone could get access to them, they could attempt to work from that account’s “good will” and set up credit vehicles (in my name), and then I would be in trouble.
Shut down those old unused accounts before the end of the year.
Personal Finance Advent Calendar
- Day 1: Empty Box
- Day 2: TFSA
- Day 3: A Safety Deposit Box
- Day 4: What’s in your Safety Deposit Box?
- Day 5: Your Will in a box
- Day 6: A Credit Card Bill
- Day 7: A Pointing Finger (Points)
- Day 8: A Lamb
- Day 9: Your Child’s Diploma
- Day 10: A Cane
- Day 11: A Home Inventory List
- Day 12: A Bank Passbook
- Day 13: A Pair of Tiny Shoes (budgeting)
- Day 14: A Stock Certificate for ACME Buggy Whips
- Day 15: A Kettle (Charity)
- Day 16: A Coffin
- Day 17: A Scroll of Household Fix Ups
- Day 18: A Wii Fit
- Day 19: A Library Card
- Day 20: A House Plan
- Day 21: A Feather
- Day 22: DVD of the Shawshank Redemption
- Day 23: A Tuning Fork
- Day 24: A Happy Face
- Day 25: A Box of Chocolate Loonies
Transit strike? Ugh. When we had one there was still service at rush hour (thank goodness!), but on the day I had to work until 9 p.m. I had to take a taxi home. (Luckily my workplace gave us vouchers.)