Scared of unpaid bills!
Our internet has been out for almost a week and I’m getting nervous. We finally got it turned on last night, but I didn’t have a chance to catch up on our bills and see where we are at. Since I’ve been panicking about bills, I’ve been paying them all in advance hoping that’ll keep us on track as life has been crazy. But instead I start worrying more because I don’t know how ahead I am and what if I missed something?
Tonight’s schedule is too full to stop in and check up on the bills. I’d ask the partner to but since I’ve been prepaying things, things are a little more complicated. Instead of having a bill marked paid to file away, there is the pile of new bills and some were paid before they showed up. Reconciling that it probably more work than the partner wants to do. He has a set way of doing things and my ways seem to counter them all.
Despite tonights schedule being full, I still must make sure nothing needs to go out the next day!
tangent…
I’m starting to see the benefits of having a bill pay service. However, instead, I really need to get back in sync with life and stop running around like a headless chicken. How is it that I took a part time job to have more time and I’m always scrambling? One of the major budget buffers was going to be saving us money on eating out, instead I seem to be cooking even less. I was also going to bring in some extra cash, but I’m taking less work than I could and still scrambling to get it done on time each week.
I keep saying that the end of May will bring a break, but who am I kidding? We’re scheduled to close the first week in June — do I honestly think time is going to slow down then? Heck, we need to pack too! Why, why, why did we unpack in the first place. I think a year of boxes would have been worth not having to pack again.
… end tangent.
Donna Jean
April 26th, 2007 18:01
pshew - looks like we’re good in terms of bills. just one day later, however, and there would have been a late internet payment. tsk. tsk. also, paying ahead bit me a little when one of the credit cards processed a payment as an additional monthly payment versus next month’s payment — will have to pay more attention to cycle closing dates next time. However, paying more toward debt isn’t a bad thing.
Mom2fur
April 30th, 2007 10:01
Sounds like you’re okay now! Danged bills…can anything be more stressful?
Debt Hater
April 30th, 2007 21:46
Whew, got stressed out just reading this post! I trust you’ll be all right and you’ll get through. It’s easy to lose sleep over these things, but take it from me, it’s not as bad as it seems!