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[Medusa]

Another dumb question for ya Mary...............

I wrote my check yesterday and tucked it away like you said. When I write next month's check, do I throw away the one I wrote for this month, or do they just keep accumulating????

Not a dumb question at all. It's up to you, really, what you do w/the checks. I let them accumulate and burn them in the fireplace on New Year's eve along w/my calendar for the outgoing year but if you want to discard each check every month, that's perfectly fine, too.