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Any Reason To Keep Your Credit Union Membership Applications?

racecar
  |     |   598 posts since 2014

It's a little late now, as I shredded them all yesterday doing spring cleaning, but is there any reason I should have kept copies of my original membership applications for all the many CUs I belong to?

Before shredding them, I wrote down my member/account #s, and did keep any beneficiary pages... but since the original applications show everything from my SS# to even my "call center security password" I figured it was safer to shred them instead of keeping them forever in a drawer.

I can't think of one time I've ever needed them after I've joined. Too late now, but any reason to keep them once you've successfully joined?

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deplorable_1
  |     |   2,217 posts since 2020
I keep everything and my desk is a mess but I know where everything is so don't touch anything! lol
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racecar
  |     |   598 posts since 2014
Your Tobyhanna application is still there behind the sofa...
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Ratesaver
  |     |   185 posts since 2013
Speaking of Tobyhanna Depot. I assume you have been in the service . well, I live close to Tobyhanna If that is what you meant
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belko
  |     |   153 posts since 2021
Yes, definitely a reason. Had I not kept electronic records of my Sharonview FCU application, I might have forgotten that I become eligible only through the aegis of the Charlotte Folk Society, should somebody ask me tomorrow!
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racecar
  |     |   598 posts since 2014
Yeah, it can be fun looking back at all the organizations, from folk societies to organic farmers, childrens charities to the ACC (which I still don't know what they actually do or provide, but it was free years ago so I won't complain).

But now the question is... do you still have your Sharonview acct or have you closed it? I can't imagine them ever offerering a leading rate again.
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belko
  |     |   153 posts since 2021
Sadly, it's still open. I blame Newton's 1st law, the one about inertia.
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