{"id":11906,"date":"2025-12-11T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=11906"},"modified":"2025-12-10T22:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:01:41","slug":"thursday-wisdom-sometimes-checkbooks-are-still-useful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/thursday-wisdom-sometimes-checkbooks-are-still-useful\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Wisdom: Sometimes Checkbooks are Still Useful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>MEABNOTE: I\u2019ll be going on a blogging vacation at the end of the year and there won\u2019t be any daily posts between December 15 and December 31, at least none from me. We may have guest posts during that period, but that depends on&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:milesearnandburn@gmail.com\">you sending me some<\/a>. On January 1(ish), we\u2019ll celebrate with the 2025 version of Travel Hacking as Told by GIFs.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deeper you go into the churning hobby, statistically speaking, the more often you need to move big chunks of money from one bank to another. You&#8217;ll often run into blocks, like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Daily ACH limits<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Monthly ACH limits<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Banks worried about being a hub<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Too many wires causing an account closure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a nice way around all that, just write yourself a check to transfer money, then mobile deposit it or take it to a branch. Old school cool applies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a nice Thursday!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-18.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11907\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-18.png 474w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-18-300x139.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">For bonus points order real checks that look fake. Banks love it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEABNOTE: I\u2019ll be going on a blogging vacation at the end of the year and there won\u2019t be any daily posts between December 15 and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11906"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12914,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11906\/revisions\/12914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}