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Old Sep 10, 2005 | 6:32 am
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peachfront
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: MSY
Programs: NW Gold and now Delta Gold
Posts: 3,072
Marathon Man, Let me say first that I am so sorry to hear about your dad being killed on 9-11.

Second, as a Katrina evacuee whose home airport was most recently famous for having medical triage on the baggage claim, I'm one thousand percent in agreement with your post. There is a lot of chaos involved in trying to recover and keep safe all of my own accounts and paperwork. We are limited in our time, so we are wise to pick the best programs for our purposes and let the others go by.

Some people are indeed clueless. Other people just know their limits and how much they can put into chasing the deals and giveaways. They know very well they don't get every bonus or benefit, but they consider it a fair trade-off to free up some time.



Originally Posted by Marathon Man
The reasons why people disregard some things may go further than some here are willing to comprehend. HOW MANY ACCOUNTS DO YOU HAVE OR WANT IN YOUR LIFE?
does it not get overwhelming to any of us?

YES!

I actually am STILL in the process of trying to streamline my many accounts in life and NO, you cannot have the same password for each one of them! Dont let anyone fool you with that come back!

Example: Continental Airlines wanted a 4 digit password and Continental Vactions site wanted a 6 digit one. There ya go. Some places require letters or other password combinations! It is a lot of stuff to handle.

i have an excel sheet with everything on it. But recently I got so overwhelmed myself, this sheet became a printout with post it notes stuck to it and new accounts or old accounts strewen about all over it. Then we moved and it is in a box that will soon be opened up and hopefully organized in my office to be in a room not yet painted.

And you want ME to join YET ANOTHER service or program?

NOPE!

Now, add a flood in your home town (let's say I llived in New Orleans) and that is just NOt a good thing at all.

hey, my dad was killed on 9/11/01. Do you know how badly it sucked to have to deal with AOL to get into his email and change it over to my mom's ability to read it?

that was harder to deal with than some of the funeral things we did!

wow.

Some people--self included--find it sometimes too hard to open yet another THING in their already busy life.

I gotta go to the bank now, so see you in a while. Oh, which card am I using and what's the pin? And did the bank just email me saying they are changing their systems and got bought out so I gotta choose another one anyway?

MM
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