(09-23-2020, 10:00 AM)JPolen01 Wrote: You guys know most companies offer auto pay AND will email you the statement before the auto pay date, right?
I hadn't heard that before. Thanks for sharing!
To be fair, all our utilities that do not change cost every month are auto-charged to our credit card. Anything where the price is variable (mortgage/escrow/taxes, electricity, water, etc.) requires action by me. Paying money out once I'm comfortable is a lot easier than trying to claw back an issue I happened to notice after the autopay. Having to pay the bill forces me to look at it, instead of skipping a month here and there because it's on autopay. Then again, I actively balanced my checkbook (in Quicken) every month, until my kid was born.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth