I messed up. Yep, I seem to do that every once in a while. I forgot to write out the bills and get them posted. You see, I broke out the bills into different lumps this time, which I don’t normally do, because I’m forever in danger of sending out our home equity loan payment and our T1 line bill late because they each come due at an odd time of the month when no other bills are due. Thus, I tend to forget both of them. This month, I tried something a little different and what did I do? I forgot to send out a much larger chunk of bills. (Where’s a smiley for “uh duh!” when you need one?)
As a result, I broke out in a cold sweat yesterday morning at work, realizing that it was the 10th of the month and I hadn’t yet sent out the electric bill, which is usually due around this time. Not being able to do anything about this from work, I waited until we got home and then rushed upstairs to find a pile of bills to be paid. Thank goodness the electric bill is the only one that was a day overdue. So, I spent a while last night writing everything out, plus writing up Mother’s Day cards to send out to my mother and Terry’s grandmother. There was a nice little stack of envelopes waiting in the mailbox for our not-so-friendly postal person this morning.
Let’s hope I don’t do that again!
I was forever doing this until I signed up for Bill Pay online!!! It has made my life so much easier!!!!!
I was the bill payer until the twins came twelve years ago. After a few bills arrived late, I handed it all over to DH and it’s been his job ever since – thank goodness! I’d be even worse now. Until the twins tho, I was definitely on top of things.
I pay stuff by internet trf, it is so convenient!!
Plus I put the stuff to pay in my diary on Pay day ‘s date, so it will have ‘clothing acc R120’ and a list, so as the bills come in, it gets entered into the diary and then tossed in the bin. It works for me.
Oops! I’ve done that a couple of times too, mainly with the credit card, which is the only bill that we have to pay direct (everything else is paid by Direct Debit, so it just comes out of our bank a/c as an automatic payment every month). We really ought to get the credit card direct debited too – it would be much less hassle than remembering to pay it every month LOL!
I’m an internet junkie, so everything gets paid online. Imagine how much easier it is when I can do automatic payments… oooooooo!