I'm taking the bills away from my husband!!!

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Oh geeze!!! He's done it again!!! OK, here's what we usually do. All of our financial stuff goes into QuickBooks and I reconcile the accounts. My husband goes through and schedules all the bills in through our on-line banking. Well, last month, he paid the wrong credit card bill and I had to call them and get it all straightened out. In the past, he's paid a bill a few days before it's due, but hasn't changed the date in our QuickBooks file. Well, when he's done that in the past he's changed it from the day after payday to the day before payday, and there's NO money in the account for the day he's scheduled it! Sometimes this has caused an overdraft, but fortunately when he did this this week I had money in savings for our mortgage payment and the bank transfered the money to pay the bill. Then, totally by accident, I was looking at the bank account and noticed that he didn't schedule a credit card that was due today! Well, it's going to be late because the earliest I can get it paid (without the $15 fee) is tomorrow. I told him that if he wasn't going to pay attention to what he's doing then he can't do it any more. The reason we have it set up this way is because his first wife was a HUGE spender and the ended up with a bankruptcy when he found out how far in debt they were. He refuses to let that happen so we worked out this arrangement. Well, it's not working because he's not paying things right. He's fine with it so I'm taking over the bills from now on. WHEW!! OH, his excuse - "Well, I've been busy with hunting". HA! Hunting has been 2 weekends in the last 4. I'm coming up on tax season and there's no way I'll have time to do this, but I will because I know it has to get done (correctly!). High finances, I tell ya, this is too much fun!