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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GaryBurke, post: 45252, member: 1874&quot;]I&#039;m straying off the topic a little, but at one time I had 40 savings accounts with various banks, and a passbook for each.&nbsp; Many of the passbooks had pictures of coins on the cover, and they (the passbooks) were one of my collections.</p><p><br /></p><p>Little by little the banks upped the required minimum balance and pretty soon I was paying $2 to $5 a month for the privilege of having an account with them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I closed out 39 of the 40, keeping only the one my grandfather opened for me, for $1, in the mid-1950&#039;s.&nbsp; I have to keep the balance above $300 or the bank will sock me $3 a month.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s all quite irritating.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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