milaw14•25d agoMost Upvoted

My automatic savings transfer just... didn't happen this month

I logged into my bank account yesterday to check a payment and saw my savings balance was exactly the same as last month. I've had a $200 transfer set up for the 5th of every month for over two years, and it's never missed a beat. This time, it just didn't go. No alert, no email, nothing. I had to dig through my settings and found out the transfer date was somehow set to the 31st, which obviously doesn't exist in April. I must have messed it up when I set my tax payment last month and didn't double-check. I manually moved the money over, but it threw off my whole budget because I'd already counted it as gone. Has anyone else had an auto-pilot money move fail on them out of the blue? How do you keep an eye on these things without checking every single transaction?

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matthewmartin25d ago

Actually, that's on you for not checking.

nancy81725d ago

I mean, is it really that big of a deal though? In my experience, people make small mistakes all the time. It feels like we're treating every little oversight like a major failure. Your mileage may vary, but I just don't see the need for that level of blame over something minor.

alex_wilson7925d ago

Ever tried just owning it and moving on?