I pay my bills online as I get them. The interest on my loans comes straight out of my accounts at the beginning of every month.
Aug-24-2007 13:55
Orbax
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Apr 2002
Location:
i have auto payments set for car insurance and rent. Those hit at the 26th and the 8th of each month. I send out a check thats due on the 8th for my car payment on the 6th so my direct deposit from work replaces the negative cash balance by the time they cash it.
Everything else is paid on the 2nd because instead of paying a bill on the 27th , the 28th, and the 30th, they give you a grace period so I just wait till they are all in.
I know that I generally have about 2000 dollars in bills a month so I make sure that my bank account has at least that in there and then scrape the rest into a 5% savings account.
Aug-24-2007 13:58
KiNeTiC ENeRgY
t3cHn0_43ad
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Boca Raton
quote:
Originally posted by SuspicionVandit
them late fees is killa.
I pay em as soon as I get them. But i do stare very hard at them, hoping I will spot an asterix indicating it is spam. Not to many bills though. Gas+electric, water, car insurance and $200 rent.
Only $200 for rent!! Damn I'd be driving a new Benz if I wasn't paying $1250 a month
Aug-24-2007 13:59
Zoso
Banging Gangs!
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Dirty South, United States
As they arrive in the mail unless it's something on automatic draft.
Oh, and I ALWAYS, ALWAYS pay in unrolled pennies.
Aug-24-2007 14:02
Orbax
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Apr 2002
Location:
quote:
Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY
Only $200 for rent!! Damn I'd be driving a new Benz if I wasn't paying $1250 a month
for rent? im spending 900 and i thought that was ridiculous. id be spending 700 if they hadnt been out of flats when I got here.
Aug-24-2007 14:02
UWM
mandroid
Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Here
Re: how do you prefer to pay your debts/bills/etc
quote:
Originally posted by BTG
biggest ones fist? or small/unimportant ones.
When they're due?
Aug-24-2007 14:04
shaw
RIP
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Intergalactic Mimosa Station
Re: how do you prefer to pay your debts/bills/etc
quote:
Originally posted by BTG
biggest ones fist? or small/unimportant ones.
I don't like putting any bills into my body, regardless of size.
Registered: Nov 2001
Location: 61.105423,-149.723555
I get paid on the 16th of every month (really teaches you to budget) and all bills are paid on the 16th.
I also do it all online so when the bill arrives I set the amount and it goes out automatically on the 16th.
Easy enough.
Aug-24-2007 14:21
david.michael
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Dayton, OH, USA
Pay all bills online on payday.
Aug-24-2007 14:42
Moral Hazard
Oppressing the 99%
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: with the 1%
I hand them to my wife.... the rest is a mystery to me.
Aug-24-2007 15:06
lücid
electric girl
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: NY
for 4.5 years i used to get paid on the 5th and 20th of every month, and since bills are monthly it was always easy to pay whichever bills i had to pay for that half of the month immediately after i got each paycheck. i always knew exactly how much i'd have left after i paid bills, and it was a lot easier to manage my money that way.
but for the last 7 months i've been getting paid bi-weekly, so my schedule for paying bills has been all flipped around and screwed up. i still pay everything on time... and sometimes i end up paying bills weeks in advance, but it's a lot harder to manage my money because sometimes i never know what bills need to come out of which paycheck. i either end up having more money than i know what to do with (which leads to irresponsible spending) or i go broke for a week or so. either way, it's pretty weak, and i miss my old system.