I was checking my Bank of America account at about 3pm yesterday when I realized that I had not scheduled my monthly credit card payment, too much going on in my head at the moment. It was due yesterday and if you don’t want to incur any late fees and want the payment to be posted the same day you have to do it before 5pm ET so I knew that I was too late for that. So I did the next best thing and scheduled it for today, the 30th and I knew that I was going to have that late payment fee and was kicking myself for it.

Then I went to the bank to cash my check, lucky me there was no line. I get to the window, made a deposit, got some cash back and then I asked the cashier if I could make a credit card payment to which he replied that indeed I could. So he pulled up my account and said to me, “it’s due today huh” and all I could do was smile because I made the payment in cash and I am pretty sure that I am not going to have a late payment fee. As soon as I could I got online and canceled the automatic payment I had scheduled for today.

Ha!!, so there Bank of America.

It’s finally here, the last Investing Report of September and just like that 2009 seems to be fading away faster than fast. I was expecting my account to keep on getting fatter, you know, like politicians when power goes to their head. Where did that come from?, I don’t know. Anyway, my account was down $80 dollars for the week which wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be when I started to write the report so I will take it, here is the report.

I had no trades last week.

My investments, 50 Dow Chemical Co (DOW) shares, 100 Allied Irish Banks PLC (AIB) shares, 400 Citigroup (C) shares and 500 Fannie Mae (FNM) shares.

A while back there used to be ads embedded in the posts if you remember, the reason for them was simple, to make some extra money and even though I made a few dollars, and I do mean a few, I decided to stop putting them in posts. Well, out of the blue I received a check for $35.45 which was really exciting and I can thank my old ads and you for that.

As you know I have been dealing with my debt as best as I can and thankfully I am getting some help this September. No, I don’t mean a government bailout and I sure didn’t win the lottery either although that would be very nice indeed but I am not that lucky.

Anyway, the help I am getting comes from the three paychecks I get this month, this happens twice a year. I get number 3 next week and that should help me for now. I am going to put $300 dollars into my checking account which doubles the amount that I put in that account monthly and the rest I am going to save because I have some expected expenditures coming up which will only make my debt grow and having something extra to tame the beast always helps.

The beginning of another investing week that hopefully will be a good one. My account has been moving up nicely and last week was no exception, my account was up $231 dollars and that is the way I like it. My account really needs to keep going up because I am going to need some money, check my other blog to find out why. Anyway, have a great week and I will see you Wednesday.

I had no trades last week.

My investments, 50 Dow Chemical Co (DOW) shares, 100 Allied Irish Banks PLC (AIB) shares, 400 Citigroup (C) shares and 500 Fannie Mae (FNM) shares.