How good are you at keeping up with or getting ahead of paying your bills?
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Rickster is victorious
ANSWERS: 42
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I'm doing pretty good now, I'm two months ahead in rent, and I'm current with all other bills.
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Yes I am good..but I wasn't when I was much younger...I had to learn the hard way:)
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I can keep up with bills....but never seem to be able to get ahead. like most people, we just tend to scrape by.
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That's one thing that I'm good at - paying my dues ahead of deadline. For example, I pay my credit card bill a week in advance. I don't like anything piling up in front of my face and agonizing over them. My thinking is that, I'm gonna pay later anyway so why prolong the agony.
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I'm pretty good with it... Sometimes I get a little behind... I wish I made more money!! Hey Rickster!!! How are you??? I haven't seen much of you lately...
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I use my Works Calendar. It's all set up so my bills are broken up between checks. That way I have extra money on payday and still pay all the bills on time. It's actually very useful. We usually have double the amount of spending money left on payday than before I started my little system.
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I always pay my bills on time. My credit score is really important to me
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Terrible. I used to be great at it, but after being unemployed and medically unemployable for a few months, having a few vehicles die on me, watching the cost of home heating and gas triple so that those two things alone are nearly one-quarter of our household's income, and not earning enough to really benefit from the Bush tax cuts (less than a weeks pay difference from before), I just can't keep up. Things are looking up somewhat at the moment, but it'll still be a few months before we are really good-to-go and even then ONLY if we don't have ANOTHER emergency. As for home ownership or a car loan for less than 19% APR, forget it. Not for at least another ten years. Ditto college. The sad part is that my wife I make good money for our area!
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good ...always have been ..99% payed on time ..sometimes a couple of days late but still payed
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I'm terrible, I usually end up paying them at the very last minute.
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I keep up with them pretty well. I get paid twice monthly, so on each payday I pay the bills that are due before the next paycheck. It's a system that works for me...I learned the hard way (late fees, etc) that leaving them till the last minute doesn't give me anymore money in the account cause it still needs to be paid!
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Every now and then I am late paying on one but those late fees keep me from doing it again for a long time.
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Very, very good. When you have been skint you learn to juggle bills. Borrow from Peter to pay Paul, like that.
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It's taken a while but I pay my bills the day I get them. I wasn't always this aggressive. I would set them aside and then forget about them, ending up late and paying late fees and more interest. I now pay no interest and pay them off completely when I receive them. I'd rather earn interest than pay it.
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I mark the date they are due minus 6 days on the envelope flap, prop them all up in date order and pay them on that date. I don't want my vendors to get paid early and I don't want to get hit with any late pymts either.
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rick,i pay everything w/ a credit card.then @ the end of the month,i pay the balance in full.i receive interest on my checking account,payback,on my credit card.and no monthly charges on either one.
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I am pretty good at keeping my bills paid on time now.I think it has been a few times when I was overdue, probably due to laziness and irresponsibility.=)
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Yes im very good,i dont like debts and i only have what i know i can afford to pay back.My rent comes first as its the roof over our heads :)
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barely to not good.
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Very good. I have a system. I have a manilla divider which is labeled 1 through 31. When I receive a bill I catalogue it for 3 to 7 days prior to when it is due depending on whether I pay it online or by mail. Then I just go through each day and pay what is in the slot. Works really well.
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Keeping up OK, ahead never. I refuse to as I want my money working for me not someone else. Utilities etc can have it when they ask for it and not before :)
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i do pretty well at keeping up. i fall behind sometimes. only when a check isn't quite what i was expecting. i have all my bills laid out. i have each payday in notepad and each bill that goes on that check next to it.
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Very good, really. I pay each bill when it arrives. I don't even remember the last time I paid something late. Some people set bills aside so they can sit down and pay them all at once, but that doesn't work for me because everything is due at different times. I much prefer to pay them as soon as they arrive so that I know I've paid them on time, and I don't have to worry about forgetting to pay them.
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Until just a few months ago we were excellent at doing it. But as our savings have dwindled we have gotten behind a little. It used to be pay everything off but not right now. We've been living off savings for a few years and they are starting to run really low and it's time to get job or starve. However we aren't finished with the house and winter is coming. So many choices, so little time:-(
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I pay them as soon as the bill arrives.
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I pretty much suck at it. Unless it is getting ripped directly from my checking account, chances are it is not going to be paid on time. Unfortunatly, my bills are more than my income, so I can't have everything automatically be pulled. I have to decide what bills will be paid, and what won't. It's sorta on a rotation.
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I am not very good i am so behind is there anyone here who can help me
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I pay bills twice a month . . . 1st and the 15th.
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I pay them when they come in..so I never have to worry about missing one.
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very well..., i don't like procrastination. Once the bill comes in., it goes right back out the same day.
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I have a budget that tells me what bills need to get paid with which paycheck. if its due before my paycheck at the end of the month, it comes out in the first check. I'm usually a month ahead of my bills... i seem to always see credits on my bill or pay them way before they're due. Credit cards always get over the monthly payment. Eventually I'll just pay them all off and use them sporadically
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Never missed a payment. I see no reason to miss one. Its very important to pay on time continuously.
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Barely... But managing.
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So bad I've gone to automatic payments for everything.
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When I had a job, I paid them a month prior, with the exception of a few things that wouldn't allow that (Like some credit card bills, etc). Now that I've been laid off and money is extremely tight, I'm awfully close to the due date and it feels 'wrong' to me, lol.
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Very good. The moment the direct deposit comes in we pay both our bills and our savings accounts. Things run very smoothly that way.
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I get my bills paid at least by the due date, years of experience budgeting.
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im pretty good at keeping up with bill paying. what really annoys me most is that everytime i seem to be getting somewhere with my savings (small as they are), they tend to go on car repairs/household repairs. Its just not fair
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We have everything budgeted in our home and should anything come up as an immediate need, we have reserves set back for those times. It was hard to get to that point with kids in our house, but we did it. It is a good feeling to say you're debt free. Budgeting is the greatest resource to anyone who's willing to use it.
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im jewish!!! im great at keeping up with my bills
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VERY GOOD.
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I am not very good at it. That's why my husband is the one in charge of our budget.
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