Cellar Scribblings

[CellarDweller]

OH, you're going to spoil them, huh? 

[Jeff Wrangler]

I got my Christmas club for $1,000.00.

OMG, some banks still have Christmas Clubs?!?!?! 

I haven't heard anyone mention them in, like, 25 years. My mother always used to have one of those, and then I did, too. Do they still have the little coupon books, where you tear out a coupon every time you make a deposit? 

[Katie77]

OH, you're going to spoil them, huh? 

Spoil them.............did you have grandparents Chucky, and remember how everything out of thier pantry always tastes better than the pantry at home.

My eight year old grandson, walks in our house.....opens up the pantry door, and says....."now what will i have".......when he goes home, I tell his mum and dad that he really likes something but when they buy it, it never gets eaten and they end up throwing it out.

[Katie77]

OMG, some banks still have Christmas Clubs?!?!?! 

I haven't heard anyone mention them in, like, 25 years. My mother always used to have one of those, and then I did, too. Do they still have the little coupon books, where you tear out a coupon every time you make a deposit? 

We had Christmas Club accounts at the Credit Union where I worked. Most people who had their salary go into their account, would authorise a certain amount go directly into their Christmas Account. Sometimes as little as $10 a week, or more.

Another great thing we had at our Credit Union, when we brought up a customers account, the customers details would also show up, and if it was the customers birthday, the date of birth on the screen would flash at us, and we would get a little beep. We would then wish them a happy birthday, and the surprised and happy thank you,from the customer was always a lovely reward. They would immediately have a smile on their face.

[CellarDweller]

OMG, some banks still have Christmas Clubs?!?!?! 

I haven't heard anyone mention them in, like, 25 years. My mother always used to have one of those, and then I did, too. Do they still have the little coupon books, where you tear out a coupon every time you make a deposit? 

Yuppers!

However, I've opened one with the bank I work with now, and they have a book like a regular passbook savings account.  You put in as much as you want, as often as you want.  When the check gets mailed, the book goes back to zero.

[Jeff Wrangler]

Yuppers!

However, I've opened one with the bank I work with now, and they have a book like a regular passbook savings account.  You put in as much as you want, as often as you want.  When the check gets mailed, the book goes back to zero.

Eeek! I didn't even know they still had passbook savings accounts! 

[Katie77]

Eeek! I didn't even know they still had passbook savings accounts! 

Neither did I.....I thought they were a thing of the past. They must be handwritten are they?

In the old days, the banks used to have a machine, that they put the book in, and the transaction was printed, but I didn't think they still had those machines.

[CellarDweller]

Yup Susie and Jeff, we still have those machines!   

[optom3]

That takes me back. I can remember my old blue  Post Office savings account book. Every Saturday, when I got my pocket money,  would go to the shop, buy one bar of Cadbury's mint crisp. Then munching on that would pay the rest into my savings account. Which the machine would stamp.

On a bad week I would also buy 10 black Jacks and 10 fruit salads( chewy yummy sweets) You could get 4 of either for one old penny, about half a cent.
so 20 would be about 2.5 cents !!!!

When I had enough money saved I would go to the joke shop and buy itching powder, pretend dog poo all the normal stuff. Happy days.Or if I had really saved I could go to the book shop and buy a new Enid Blyton book, and get lost in the famous five's adventures.

Life really was so easy then. I never remember feeling deprived either.

[Katie77]

Yup Susie and Jeff, we still have those machines!  

Now that the Spanish bank has taken over, you might get some updated equipment.........do you have compters yet??