have a check coming this week & not sure what to do my great great grandma died and long story short, i have a check for about 40k coming in this week. ive always been someone who lives paycheck to paycheck, i honestly have no idea what to do with this money. the only account i have is a chime account, im assuming i need to open an account at a real bank, but also i owe money to a bank so im not …

LPT: Always double check that the oven is empty before turning it on Even if you don’t store anything in the oven, you’ll never know if someone used it for storage or to hide something until it’s too late unless you check first. And you never know when your dad might leave his work laptop in the oven. submitted by /u/CrazyLegs17

Japan Itinerary check please (Mostly Tokyo and Day trips) Hi, I have spent a while planning and would love any feedback or suggestions for changes or additions please. I’ve been to Japan before (Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka) and am interested in big cities, small rural towns, beaches, snow, night street photography. Shrines are cool but not a major focus, travelling with a fit and healthy senior so easily acces…

rent check to landlord cashed fraudulently by third party… Earlier this week, I received a rent statement from my landlord indicating they hadn’t received a check I mailed them several weeks ago. I sent the check via usmail in NYC – my landlord doesn’t accept electronic payments. The check was debited from my account after it was somehow deposited by a third party into a Capital One account in Richmond,…

Check to See If Your Tax Bracket Is Changing for 2025 Bracket thresholds are going up, as is the standard deduction.

Question about online check in with Qatar Airways Hi, i am flying from Copenhagen to Auckland tommorrow. I booked my trip through Qatar Airways, but my first flight from Copenhagen to Doha is with Finnair. I was able to check in on the Finnair app and i have just received my boarding pass for the first flight. My second flight though is from Doha to Auckland with Qatar Airways but i cant check …

Reality Check on current finances. * throwaway account for personal reasons * Hi – Im a 44m married no kids – wife is 43 I am an immigrant to the US and I started my career later than “normal” Lately I have been stressing about finances a bit and its keeping me awake a night. Hoping to get some feedback on our current life. We own our house with a 2.8% interest about 23 years re…

No TSA pre-check on boarding pass despite entering KTN when booking I entered in my KTN when I booked this trip. Absolutely 100% because I remember not knowing it off-hand and had to look into up on tsa.dhs.gov. I looked back in my internet history and I was on that website the day I bought my ticket. What can I do now? Flight is tomorrow afternoon submitted by /u/iwnnaaskaquestion

TSA Pre Check – or am I getting it wrong? I started traveling post COVID and mostly starting from East Coast 4 main airports – LGA, EWR, JFK and Penn. I have Global Entry so it includes TSA Pre. Issue I see is in ALL cases, the basic line is the same. Whether you have TSA or not. Only when I reach the final check point there’s some segregation. Earlier TSA holders had a separate line …

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Just learned employer stopped taking contributions from my check for 401k I just checked my 401k after several years and just now noticed my employer stopped taking contributions from my check without my ask to do so. My statements show I’ve been contributing 5% each pay period from November 2021 (my earliest available time to enroll and with a 5% match) and then the contributions just stop March 2022. Is there a rea…

Should I invest my whole pay check into 401k Hello everyone, I started my first job out of college beginning Jan 2024 and my company offered a 401k plan with a 3% match. I knew nothing about 401ks due to the lack of me not researching. So I decided to just put 3% of my paycheck in since my company was just matching that percentage. Well back in May I started researching and found out I sho…

The Associated Press removes a fact-check claiming JD Vance has not had sex with a couch Photo by Alex Wong / Getty ImagesThe Associated Press has apparently retracted a fact-check published yesterday with the headline, “No, JD Vance did not have sex with a couch.” As of Thursday morning, the article page displayed a “page unavailable” error message. The fact-check references a few joke social media posts that have been circulating…

Peru/Bolivia itinerary check Hi all, I am planning a trip to Peru and Bolivia, and wanted to check my itinerary with you all. In this trip I hope to achieve the following goals: Spend part of it hiking Spend part of it completely decompressing, doing nothing Explore Bolivia I am flying into Lima since this made logistics easier. I will be doing remote work for the first w…

Someone forged signature and deposited check – how does that even happen without proper ID? I was expecting a refund from IRS for amended return, and eventually followed up with IRS after the check never arrived. IRS put a trace on the check, and just received notice it was cashed. The IRS claim packet includes a scan of my signature and very clearly shows it’s not mine. I’m going through the claim process. That said, posting here (an…

Mailed Check Already Deposited My partner been waiting for a check to come in the mail for several months now. We just received it, it was not endorsed. My partner endorsed it and tried to mobile deposit with our bank but got an error message that it was already deposited. It was received today, signed today, and told it was already deposited today. We are concerned the chec…

Documentary street and journalist photographers. What is the first thing you check? So, I’ve been trying to get into documentary and photojournalism and even if I study there’s some things I’m still confused about and can’t seem to get answers anywhere. I’ll try to explain it the best that I can. When you go out on an assignment or just to take pics, is there an order to waht you check? Or what is your personal preference? I kn…

Why can’t I create a WeChat account? During the security check it says I need a friend to verify me by either scanning my QR code or going into their settings, but I don’t have a fiend that has WeChat Can anyone help me with this? I don’t know what to do I need to contact family in china but they can’t help me. submitted by /u/Alex01726291927

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Wrong DOB on RyanAir flight check-in I am flying with RyanAir from Manchester to Krakow in 3 days. I was completing the online check-in for me and my boyfriend to avoid paying the airport check-in fee and stupidly misclicked the year for my boyfriend’s date of birth. Once you have inputted the DOB you cannot change it online. I tried calling through to customer support with absolut…