How many bank accounts do we have?

roadblock15

Thought this poll may be fun and surprise a few people and maybe even me, how many bank accounts do we hold? Whether dormant, for donor/switching rewards. I’m use, or ‘as back up’.

I now only have 2 but at one time had 7.

financialbliss

Ha. Voted 11+

Don't actually know off the top of my head how many I have though. Main ones off the top of my head:

6 X TSB
2 X Tesco
2 X Club Lloyds
1 X First Direct
1 X NatWest
1 X HSBC
2 X Nationwide

Struggling after that. Would have to go and look them up...

PRAISETHESUN

11 here. Mostly for switch incentives and access to good interest rates and regular savers. A bit of a hassle to set up but very minimal effort once they are

roadblock15

Just out of curiosity- how do you fund all those accounts, or do you have one just for car costs like insurance fuel tax etc? One for household bills, ones for holiday money and saving, one for salary to go in, etc?

deadendwaterfall

1x Halifax Reward
1x Lloyds Classic
2x Barclays (One Premier and one a standard current account to be used as a switcher account for the switching incentives).

financialbliss

Oops. Make that 2 NatWest and completely forgot about Halifax (3).

Use just one account as main account. Others opened for access to RS accounts or other account perks. Funding mostly done by manual transfers but have some balance bearing accounts fed by standing order. All managed via MS Money.

roadblock15

Microsoft Money?

Zero_Sum

roadblock15 wrote: »

Just out of curiosity- how do you fund all those accounts, or do you have one just for car costs like insurance fuel tax etc? One for household bills, ones for holiday money and saving, one for salary to go in, etc?

They tend to be gloryfied savings accounts really for the ones with decent interest rates. Then theres ones like Halifax reward & co-op everyday rewards which keep minimal in just enough to cover DD just for the free cash. The only account worth having purely for bills it santander 123 lite as its bills you get cashback on.

agrinnall

"We" don't have any, because I don't open joint accounts with people I don't know. The number of accounts that I have is of no relevance to you.

roddydogs

Please dont start threads that allow people to boast how many theve got, we dont care.

K80_Black

Just the two here. My regular bank, and Starling for overseas.