sugar_in_your_tea ,

You may be interested in switching your checking to a brokerage like Fidelity or Schwab. Some benefits:

  • at least at Fidelity (haven’t checked Schwab), your checking can be invested in a money market fund - mine gets >4% interest
  • access to your Treasury ETF much sooner
  • Fidelity and Schwab refund intentional ATM fees (depending on account type)

Basically, you’d get better interest in your checking and fewer accounts overall.

I switched late last year and I love it. My structure is:

  • Fidelity Bloom Spend - main checking, core is SPAXX, only has 2-3 weeks spending money
  • Fidelity Bloom Save - main savings, core is SPAXX, and has ~1 month spending money, plus Treasury bills that make up the rest of my efund
  • Fidelity Cash Management Account - usually near $0, but I’ll load it with some cash when I travel so I can use the free international ATM feature as needed, core is a basic savings at ~2.5%

SPAXX gets just under 5% right now, and it’s nuts that I’m getting that in my “checking.”

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