Hi! I'm asking for money again. I know, I know. I feel bad about doing it. I didn't WANT to do it. I thought I wouldn't have to for at least a hot minute. But that was before my bank decided to pull some fuckery on me this weekend, and is now refusing to fix the error or acknowledge that they even made an error in the first place.
So now my bank balance is at -$1006.
Rather than try to fight them even further or start a much more costly litigation process, I have resolved to pay them back... but as slow as humanly fucking possible.
I'm actually okay on money for the moment; part of the reason this happened in the first place is because I pulled my check out of my bank on Friday and put it in my Apple Pay wallet, a thing I've done numerous times before. My bank then "helpfully" "forgot" the Apple Pay charge and signaled to everyone and their mother that "oh yeah they've totally got a bunch of money in their bank account, go ham." So this is not a NEED situation.
This is a "fuck my bank" situation. If you can help, that's fine. The minimum ko-fi donation - or simply just sharing this - is A-OK with me. PayPal is going to take a bunch out for fees probably, but I set the goal a little higher to account for that. I might have to raise the goal depending on whether they hit me with overdraft. They probably will. I'll let you know.
Anyway, I want to be clear that I'm treating this as an extremely low priority thing. I am not desperately in need of this money. I am paying it back under duress, and I'm going to be a bitch about it. Help me be a bitch. If you see other fundraisers that need money more urgently, please skip over me entirely. Thanks for reading.
I’ve raised about $56 towards my goal of slowly returning my bank balance to zero. Accounting for PayPal fees, I’m at -949/-1006, which is pretty good all things considered.
I am going to post an update like this every day, because while my main goal here is to be a bitch to my bank, I paradoxically do also recognize that this is still an ask for assistance.
A little bit of the spite I felt yesterday is gone, but I’m committed to this course of action. It’s mainly fucked up that an institution like a bank can just financially fuck someone like this because they don’t care to admit they made an error. Anyway, thank you to everyone who shared this post yesterday, and who might again pass this around today. I want to reiterate that this is low priority. Do not feel that you MUST donate to this.
I've raised $71/1050 on this goal so far. An overdraft fee hit bringing the total amount back up to -972/-1006, so all things considered I'm a little behind where I was yesterday. I'm switching my direct deposit over to another bank today so I don't get utterly wiped out next week. Thanks to folks who've donated.
I've raised about $137/$1050 on this goal! Thanks to the folks donating. No new overdraft fees have been applied so we're now at -$906/-$1006 after that one hit yesterday. Direct deposit has been moved, so next week won't be a nightmare.
This is going to be the last post in this chain just because I want to kind of keep things fresh. Anyway, we're at about $146 of the $1050 goal, and that has brought the balance down to -898. Thanks to the folks who have donated!