I often find that it's the little things that make or break my attitude. Big problems I can handle, but something like not having the address on a pre-printed check show up in a window envelope will truly drive me crazy.
Of course, sometimes it seems like the world was designed to make me crazy.
Printed checks - the kind you can run through your computer printer after inputting the data in QuickBooks - are just enough smaller than one-third of a sheet of letter-sized paper that the addresses don't reliably show. You need a different-sized envelope than the one you might use for invoices to make it show just right.
For invoices that we send out, we use a double window #9 envelope - these measure 3-7/8 x 8-7/8 inches.
For checks, we use a double window #8-5/8 envelope, measuring 3-5/8 x 8-7/8. And, yes, that 1/4 of an inch makes a real difference.
Because I live in the humid Midwest and don't have air conditioning, I vastly prefer peel-and-seal envelopes to the press-and-seal type; this allows me to buy in lots of 500, even though it might take two years for me to use them up. For some reason, their availability through Amazon and the big box office stores seems to limited, which frustrates me to no end. It occurs to me that maybe I should store my backstock in my onion- and seed cooler.
Of course, sometimes it seems like the world was designed to make me crazy.
Printed checks - the kind you can run through your computer printer after inputting the data in QuickBooks - are just enough smaller than one-third of a sheet of letter-sized paper that the addresses don't reliably show. You need a different-sized envelope than the one you might use for invoices to make it show just right.
For invoices that we send out, we use a double window #9 envelope - these measure 3-7/8 x 8-7/8 inches.
For checks, we use a double window #8-5/8 envelope, measuring 3-5/8 x 8-7/8. And, yes, that 1/4 of an inch makes a real difference.
Because I live in the humid Midwest and don't have air conditioning, I vastly prefer peel-and-seal envelopes to the press-and-seal type; this allows me to buy in lots of 500, even though it might take two years for me to use them up. For some reason, their availability through Amazon and the big box office stores seems to limited, which frustrates me to no end. It occurs to me that maybe I should store my backstock in my onion- and seed cooler.
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