Bills - How do you pay them? Internet, checks, automatic payment?  

Hear ya - I hate buying stamps. Thanks for dropping by.

Now, I must say that your method of payment is probably the best way. Unfortunately, some of my payments go to another state - love to take vacation time every month to make a road trip out of paying my bills though!

Uhhhh (sigh) - those were the days! Happy myLotting.

That does sound a little ridiculous with your truck payment. All the places I have rented from only take checks, which I find a little annoying - oh, well.

I thought it was rather strange that my former landlord who is one of the "smaller" ones in town would take rent payments on line and this one is much larger and will not....perhaps I should send them a letter with the web site on how to do that. Now that's an idea.....and the bank? It's because the truck loan is in my husband's name and therefor, I can't deal with it at all. They even send the balance out in an envelope....what, like I'm not gonna open the envelope when I get out the door? Waste of paper.....oh and I know this doesn't apply to the tread but speaking of a waste of paper, I got a refund for 15 cents on my husband's air card for the lap top.....15 cents....

Uh - life is full of crazy little things. Some of it makes sense but alot of times it just doesn't.
You reminded me though when you talked about your husband and the truck. About a month after my husband and I got married, I had to call our health insurance company concerning a bill that my husband had incurred. Anyway, I am the primary on the insurance so I call up the insurance company. They asked his birthdate to verify me. Okay, now I knew his birthdate and how old he was but I quess I never really knew the year he was born right off the top of my head. So, here I am fumbling around and finally, did the math to get the year. The insurance lady had a good laugh when I explained to her why it took so long. Boy, did I feel stupid and believe me, hasn't happened since!!
Anyway, totally off the topic but funny story about finances and being married!

I'm agreeing with you on the strange things of being married.....but this is rather sad. My husband was recently diagnosed with colon cancer. With all the doctor appointments and all the trips around town picking up medication, I'm VERY used to giving out his birthdate. So the other day, I had to pick up medication of my own. When asked my birthdate, I gave his instead of mine. Now that's funny! The pharmacist laughed and then made a comment because his birthday is the day after mine! She figured that's why I made the mistake and I said no, I've just been giving it out a lot lately. LOL. Add me to friends? I'm not sure how to do that, just joined today.

I am very sorry to hear about your husband. I will keep you and your family in my thoughts. I hope things will start looking up once the medication kicks in.
I sent you a friend request just now. I haven't logged in for a few days. I just clicked on your username, which brought me to your profile. Once I was there, there was a button for "Add as Friend". I noticed you are in Wausau - I grew up in Appleton!

I usually run into my printer "out of ink" - arghhh. Waiting for checks to clear is the worst. I do the finances here and I also hate having to wait for any check to clear.

Online payment is very convenient - good for you. Plus, you cut down on the cost of ordering new checks all the time!

Thank you for your response. I am considering setting up another one of my bills on auto payment so glad to hear you have had good luck with it - as of right now, I just have one bill on auto.

Nice - cash is definitely the safest (as long as one gets a receipt). I recently set up a paypal account but have yet to use it. Thanks for your response.

I do like the paper statements. One of my problems with snail mail was that I would forget until a couple days before it was due. This was how I first started paying online since I didn't want it to be late!
Thanks for your input.

Here, here. Buying stamps is a pain. Unfortunately, your situation is common - if things go as they are for us (medical bills, economy), we'll be doing the check by check living. Keep your head up and thank you for dropping in.