States claiming safety deposit boxes to pay budget
A woman says the state took her property and sold it for a fraction of its cost.
The 50 U.S. states are holding more than $32 billion worth of unclaimed property that they’re supposed to safeguard for their citizens. But a “Good Morning America” investigation found some states aggressively seize property that isn’t really unclaimed and then use the money — your money — to balance their budgets.
Unclaimed property consists of things like forgotten apartment security deposits, uncashed dividend checks and safe-deposit boxes abandoned when an elderly relative dies.
Banks and other businesses are required to turn that property over to the state for safekeeping. The problem is that the states return less than a quarter of unclaimed property to the rightful owners.
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Joseph Leonard’s one of my new favorite places in town; they don’t take reservations, it’s this big, it’s hard to find, they play lots of loud rap, the tables are cramped, the silverware doesn’t match, and it’s always slammed. They also make ridiculously good southern food—their shrimp and grits is absurd—it’s fairly cheap, and they have a cocktail called a Rye Tea (iced tea, rye whiskey). The thing that bothers me the most about Joseph Leonard is that if I ever had any ambition to ever open a restaurant, Gabriel Stulman already did it.
My cousin is good friends with this guy.
defrocking your books
it took me until pretty late in life to realise that book covers, by and large, are tacky and more or less useless. using them to keep dust from your books is akin to using neon plastic to preserve your furniture.
there are surprises in store for the adventurous defrocker of a hardback book…gold and silver foil stamping! linen! typography! earthtones! what’s more: since the binding of books has been more or less standardised over the last 3.2 million years, the dan brown bestseller that you bought yesterday will harmonise with your grandmother’s edition of fanny hill when they are both naked together on your bookshelf.
added bonus: you can upcycle your discarded covers into fashionable outerwear!
more unsolicited advice on how to arrange your bookshelf can be found here.
