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Old Jun 20, 2013 | 3:55 pm
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Originally Posted by jmccon2
2) I cannot pay more than what the current balance is when transferring money from my bank - so I can't 'get ahead of the charge'
BB and GoBank push the money to them, so I've been able to pre-pay that way...

Originally Posted by Happy
I am so used to that (for the past decade) that I cannot do without the finance software.
It depends how much you're manufacturing. I have a simple plan which has worked for $25k in manufactured spend in 4 months. Any card that still has money stays in a "manufacturing" wallet. Once it's loaded, it does not go back in that wallet, EVER. Once I get home, confirm the load and that the card is empty, it then goes in the box after a note is written on it with load date, amount and source.

I also don't like spending $503 then paying off $500 immediately, seems suspicious to me, so I prefer to shuffle money around and use it to pay off other cards and use bank to pay off some of that card too.
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