A Fool and His Money
One of the owners of the company I worked for was looking at his bank statement and saw some extra fees that he thought were excessive, so he called the bank to see what it was all about. I guess the person at the bank couldn’t explain the reason for fees, was short with him, and wouldn’t waive them.
So he decided to close all his accounts with that bank, which involved paying off the rest of his multi-million dollar mortgage in cash. So, he basically had enough cash sitting in his checking account to pay off his full mortgage, but preferred to take out a mortgage rather than pay for his house in cash.
When the mortgage department at the bank realized what happened and how much interest income they were going to lose out on, they tried to get him to come back and refinance, but he said no.
Same person also accidentally received a neighbors Bloomingdales bills in the mail (the store had the address wrong) didn’t read the name on the bill and assumed it was his wife’s, and paid that bill for years. So he ended up paying thousands of dollars of his neighbors shopping bills without knowing.
And when they figured it out, he told the neighbor to consider it their Christmas present. Story Credit : Reddit / HalfAgony_HalfHope