The Ways To Balance Your Checkbook
By Stephannie
@stephcjh (38473)
United States
March 9, 2021 9:50am CST
I am balancing my checkbook right now by looking at my bank account online. I get a paper statement each month too but I hate waiting for it to come.
Sometimes they have missed sending me one also or it gets lost in the mail so I started looking at my bank account online and just using a highlighter to mark off what has cleared.
How do you prefer to balance your checkbook?
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@FourWalls (68084)
• United States
9 Mar 21
I have a simple system: keep the balance even. For example, if I have $806.22 left over I transfer the $6.22 to savings to make the checking an even $800.00. Helps me save money, too.
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
9 Mar 21
That's a great idea. I just put money into my savings the other day. I try to at least do that monthly.
I like to check off what actually clears though because I have a check out there in limbo right now that someone has not cashed.
I like to make sure of my transactions and make sure something was paid on time.
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
9 Mar 21
I wait for the statements. I always have the auto deposits to add in; so we always have more in the checking account than we thought!
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
18 Mar 21
@RebeccasFarm Is there a way you keep track of what your balance is though or do you just not use a checkbook?
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@RebeccasFarm (89873)
• Arvada, Colorado
18 Mar 21
@stephcjh I just pay bills and so on dont bother balancing
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@porwest (90937)
• United States
19 Mar 21
My process is way too complicated to describe. And probably way too complicated anyway than it has to be. But I compartmentalize my checking account. I do have a process for reconciliation, which I do perform once a quarter, but there are a number of things I have to reference to do it right.
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@didinedhia (8470)
• Algeria
18 Mar 21
we don't have checkbooks !! we olny use cach in everything literally
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
19 Mar 21
@didinedhia Yes. Very true my friend.
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@didinedhia (8470)
• Algeria
19 Mar 21
@stephcjh that's a dream! you have alot of chances of makiin alot of money ecommerce or trading or anything
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