Do you understand how helpful a banking account is ? well I do! I have tried it all, from hiding money from myself to stashing it in the babies clothes thinking that I would forget about it and it never works. I just came to the conclusion that I'm just not that good with money and I needed some one to help me!! So I thought and thought, Who can I trust? I let a friend hold it since she was good with her own cash, but unfortuntaly that didn't work. She dipped into my dollars so that she didn't have to touch her, now ain't that about a blimp!! LOL, so from there I went back to hiding it from myself again and that worked for a second maybe two but you know I needed something! I dipped until I was on my last dollar. Finally payday I thought to myself what should I buy today and while I was walking down the street there was this guy, He stoped me and said can I take up some of your time? I thought to myself time is money! But for me spending money in no time, So what the heck. I stopped and he went on talking about letting my money grow and seeing a significant change in my savings. What!!! that caught my attention and I told him to show me the way. I found myself in the lobby of Bank of America and I was nerves at first, I thought about them losing all of my money or what if some one gets into my account and takes all that I own. I told the nice gentle man my fears and he told me about the protection that I can sign up for my account. I went through the paper work with him and I put every last pennie that I had in the bank I saw how much money that I had and I came to a conclusion that I wanted to see more. I ended up taking only what I needed for the week until I got paid again and believe me I saw a big change in my cash I mean to tell you that was some months ago and I have enough now to buy me a car!!






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Thanks a lot for sharing this, Veaha. It feels so good to know that you taught yourself the discipline needed to save up for something you enjoy and need like a car!
Not only did you teach yourself how to save, but you also learned about banks — interest, "letting your money grow" and how to write deposit slips. Would you be interested in sharing that information with everyone on the Portal, by writing a How To article?