Comments on: What Keeps You From Paying Bills On-Time?

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By: Jason Mitchener

Jason Mitchener — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:52:45 +0000

I think my problems are not having the money and forgetting. Great advice. Thank you.

By: Zhu

Zhu — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:49:58 +0000

In my case, it’s mostly because I forget… I always pay my credit card on time because I don’t want to be the penalty. But for some reason, bills late fees don’t scare me as much.

Note that I’m not that late. A couple of days at most. Bills are all due at different days of the months too, I because I get paid twice a month, I can not just pay all bills A, B and C on the 15th, let’s say. It’s just confusing sometimes.

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By: Francois

Francois — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:51:00 +0000

I only have one credit card account, and nothing else.

For the credit card I have a debit order to pay the entire outstanding amount at the end of each month.

For all my regular bills (insurance, etc.) I also have debit orders.

So everything is pretty much simplified and automated.

There is only one bill that I have to do manually, and I take care of this online at the end of each month.

By: MizFit

MizFit — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:37:09 +0000

whew
this is like the ONLY thing Im doing right

now if I could stop SPENDING SO MUCH…on food but still.

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By: Funny about Money

Funny about Money — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:20:49 +0000

Yes, it’s a witty and wonderful photo! Wish i was that creative.

Only one thing would keep me from paying my bills: having racked up more bills than I had cash. To avoid that, I use Excel to keep track of the amount I have in any given billing period less the amount of each charge, so that a glance at the bottom line tells me how much is left to spend. So far, it’s worked…more or less… That and an emergency fund have have (so far) allowed me to pay all my bills on time.