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PaperclipPerfector  9mo ago (text post)   2766 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for July 28, 2023

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Tell me the most enjoyable day or moment you’ve had in 2023

In Sweden to pay our bills you can have a thing called "autogiro". This means you grant a company the right to pull a certain sum from your account each month, so you never have to bother with any administration for your bills. Pretty convenient, except I've been using it for all my monthly expenses so I've never had to log in to my bank at all.

Early this year was the first time I've logged in to my bank for years. I've had constant anxiety to see how much money I actually had, and finally I had to bite the bullet and actually look.

Turns out, I had MUCH more money than I expected. The relief I felt from that was pretty much indescribable; I've now proceeded to buy a condo much closer to the city centre, and have been going out to eat more or less every weekend.

My brother showed me this song years ago and every time I log into my account I think of it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dAH4zGd_W1s&ab_channel=louiscolemusic

In my country there is a famous evergreen song called Mini Maxi. It's chorus is:

Kar nam ni všeč bo mini

Kar nam je pa maxi

Naj bo mini vse kar je slabo

Kar je dobrega maxi naj bo

Pripojmo mini si gorja in maxi sreče

Ne glede kako dolgi lasje so obleka in bančni račun

Literal translation:

What we don't like shall be mini

What we do, maxi

Mini should be everything bad

What is good, maxi

Let our singing bring us mini of sorrow and maxi of joy

No matter how long the hair, clothes or the bank account is.

I think about it everytime I make a withdrawal.

You had enough money in your bank account to pay a condo without realizing??

No, but it was enough for the down payment of the loan.

Congrats!

Anyone who says money doesn't buy happiness is full of it. It's not the only thing one needs but it definitely helps.

Congratulations. I had similar anxiety with checking my email. It was very hard to explain my predicament, even to myself.

You don't even have phone notifications for your balance? Wild.

If you set them to only go off below a certain balance (which is the default behaviour for my bank), then in Aransentin's position they just... stop.

How does that work? Monthly sms?

Every time I buy something or receive the paycheck.

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