a productive day

[redbird]

I just got off the phone with a (genuinely) helpful person at Amalgamated Bank.

I've been talking to them in order to close a joint account in my and my mother's names, and the bank told me in June that the easiest way to do this would be to withdraw all the money and then have them close the account. In order to do that, I had to set up online banking, but only after adding my phone number to the account, which I did in June. Apparently the reason I couldn't log in to the online account after setting it up was that I'd written the password down wrong.

The person at the bank reset my password for me, and then told me how to link this account to an account at another bank. I'm waiting for the test deposits to hit my account, which may take a few days. After than, I can transfer the rest of the money.

Also, I got up in time to go for a walk this morning, to the grocery store and back, before it got too hot. It's a hot day in July, so the six things I bought included ice cream, Italian ices, and fresh blueberries.

Comments

[otter]

I hope the money transfers, etc go well from here on out.

dealing with parental things

[rafiwinters]

Glad you got hold of a genuinely helpful person.

Re: dealing with parental things

[redbird]

The impressive thing is that this is the second or third helpful person I've talked to.

I don't want another bank account that I have to deal with entirely online, or that has branches but none anywhere near where I now live. I'm mostly banking at a credit union in Washington, because after years of living in New York City, where there was no credit union I was eligible to join, we moved to Washington and I had a choice of credit unions that anyone who lived in the state could join.

It would make sense for me to also have a bank account in Boston, not at a bank with branches in New York city, Washington, D.C., and California.