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Decision Made, Payoff Pending
I’ve been doing some minor planning here and there for my yearly trek up to Orange County, NY for a Where’s George? gathering. Tonight that consisted mostly of checking to see how many people were going to be there this year, and who (and who not). It just so happens my friend, the investor, is planning on attending. Back when I was looking for money for that failure of a business venture, it consisted mostly of begging people in the WG IRC channel. It was annoying (for me and everyone else), but it worked.
Anyway, since I had yet to make a decision on what debt to throw all this extra cash at, paying him back seems the definite way to go. It would be pretty akward to meet him in person and hang out for a day with us both knowing that I still owe him such a large amount of money. That just goes back to the usual advice of never lending money to (or borrowing from) friends and family. I just sent him a message a while ago telling him it’s good to go, and asking if he wants a check in the mail or in person, or a sack of 1,150 one dollar bills in person (which would totally be a viable option for such an event, trust me). No turning back.
Good thing I didn’t wake up early enough today to get to the credit union, because that was totally my plan all along… And now my temptation is to destroy the month-ahead buffer on all my other bills to take care of that. It’s like a monster. Can’t control it. Brrrrraaaaiiiiiinssssssss……………
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woo hoo! i dont think you’ll regret your decision.
awesome…I agree – friends/family debt ahead of creditors. Good luck and enjoy your convention(?)!
If he’s a Where’s George fan – I’m guessing a large stack of sequentially numbered $1 bills with a Where’s George stamp on them already would probably thrill him.
If they’re stamped for him already but unentered, yeah, that probably would thrill him! It would also potentially cause problems, as it would be out of the proper order of EMS – enter, mark, spend. Marked yet unentered bills cause huge problems for Hank, the owner of the site, who will also be at this gathering.
Plus, you know, he might want to be able to deposit them in the bank instead when he gets home, which the stamps would get in the way of.
Well that solves that – we wants a simple check when we meet. I’ll be sure to get a picture for y’all ;-D