On 04/17/12 08:59 am, Metspitzer wrote:

Having your emergency money in a bank is like having your fire extinguisher
in a storage unit, across town. Which storage unit is only accessable during
business hours.

Dumb.

Which is largely why only my emergency money is in the bank. The
stuff I can not lose.

Bank? BANK?

That means you can access it only about 50 hours out of the 168 hours in
a
week, or less than 1/3rd of the time. You probably can't drain more than
$500 from your account via an ATM machine.

Credit card.

Which cannot be used when there is a widespread power outage: the
card-readers won't work.

Perce