P.S. This winter I paid a set amount for each of my bills regardless of what was due and this summer I will not have these 3 bills at all. I will start paying again in September so instead we will use this same money to get out and do things with money that I was spending anyway. I learned this the hard way last year when we ran into some difficulty and they cut everything off. Now they actually owe me money. Yeah me. I look at this as a huge break through so I have been patting myself on the back. And with the savings from the late payments and penalties this meant that it didn’t cost all that much more then what I was paying every few months. I used the on-line payments to schedule the payments to come out on the closest pay day to the due date. Before I only counted the bills that came out automatically as the cost of the house and only paid the utilities and cable when the pink notices came in the mail. So we spent more than we were making and then ended up scrambling to find bill money. Now I count everything along with the extra we are paying. So instead of penalties of 90 or 100 every couple of months I can use this money for other things and there is absolutely no stress because I just count this into the equations at the beginning. But I bet the utilities are missing the extra 550 bucks a year. 
Re: Paying Bills on TimeCurlymoe1152011-05-18T18:04:29+00:00