Dream a Little Dream of 1 Thing

Thursday is a great day to do that 1 thing you don’t want to do but also don’t want to continue thinking about doing. What is your 1 thing?

Many moons ago (1.5 moons ago), I had to give my new landlord a copy of my credit report. I had saved one somewhere but I couldn’t find it and when I logged in to get my ANNUAL FREE CREDIT REPORT, I was denied because I’d already gotten one this year.

So I did that thing where you pay $1 for your trial membership to a credit monitoring service so you can download your report. You’re supposed to then immediately call and cancel but I FELL INTO THEIR TRAP by of course immediately forgetting that I’d done that. Then last month when I was charged $17.95 (!) I noticed it and thought, “Oh, I should cancel that,” but you have to CALL TO CANCEL. Like, on the phone? Which is difficult. So I put it off again. And then they charged me $17.95 again!

So my 1 thing is to call and cancel that finally, now that my genius $1 credit report has cost me $35.90.

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