I got ripped off from using Green Wallet.  I put some money into green wallet and use it for making purchasing.  I never got a change to setup a mnemonics password.  Forgot my regular password, Greenwallet deleted my password after three trials, now I couldn't access to my bitcoin...

I had used Breadwallet for a long time, but their fee was outrageous ($17 fees for $15 transactions)

Long story short:  I've been avoiding making payment derectly from my  Nano Ledger Hardware Wallet for security and avoiding losing all my bitcoins...

1). Giving the fact that I lost my bitcoin (being stuck in GreenWallet with no Mnemonic password).  High fees on breadwallet, I now contemplate in making payment directly from my HW wallet - is it a good pratice ?

2). What about using the Bitcoin core node wallet ?  I've been running a bitcoin core node, but I haven't gotten time to learn blockchain basic programming.  I could create a wallet on my bitcoin blockchain node.  But I read some where, that it's not good practice to run my bitcoins wallet on bitcoin node for security reason, until I become sufficient in blockchain programming...

Any one has any advice ? Thank you in advance for your input.