DSG Fire Drill
Find a Conversation
DSG Fire Drill
| Sat, 05-28-2005 - 11:08am |
Hey, I haven't done this in a while.
So.............
At the moment you are reading this....how would you handle this? You are moving a piece of furniture, and you have found a bill that fell behind it that you did not pay yet. The bill is for $200 and is due May 31. Considering the holiday weekend and your current financial picture, what will you do? Do you have to take time off from work to drop off the payment? Do you have the money to pay for it or do you need to find someone to help you? Will you call the creditor and ask them for more time or to let them know the bill is late? Will you just it pay it late anyway? Is it just one more thing going wrong?
Thanks for sharing? Littlesbigs

Fire drill? Very sensible thing to do once in a while... good idea!
My initial reaction after discovering that bill would be frustration ;-)
If it was a payment from my students loans or such a thing, I'd take the bill to the bank and simply pay it, using my emergenacy fund for that. You don't want to be late paying THOSE bills. Gives a bad rep to do so...
If it was anything else I would not care that much and have no qualms to pay a day later.
Most likely, actually, I'd try to send the money via online banking (pretty usual around here), shortens the time till they have their money coming in.
Greetings, Jordis
ivy_jordis
![]()
I'd write the check and walk it in, if possible. DH's payday is the 31st, so it wouldn't be a problem. We have automatic bill pay on some of our bills, but I take the money out right on payday with all the rest of our bills so they don't get forgotten. The money for one of those bills would go to cover the 'new' bill. The next step would be logging on to our ING accounts and sending some money to the checking account!
Yay! A Fire Drill where I didn't even have to THINK of using a credit card! Whooo-hooo!
Lisa (who's now wondering which of us this exact scenario will be happening to in the next couple of weeks...LOL)
Pumpkin
&nbs