Paying Bills Seems To Be A Juggling Act
By Susan
@HazySue (39268)
Gouverneur, New York
August 21, 2016 8:09am CST
This morning my husband and I were adding up our bills so we can pay them before I go into the hospital. I am the keeper of the bank account and the payer of the bills, so to speak, so we needed to have everything organized.
Unfortunately, there seems to be more bills than money. Like most of the people in the world, we have more bills than money. If we pay all of them then we have no money for food or gas for the car. It is all a juggling act.
So, once again we are taking a bit of money out of savings. Oh, I'm not complaining, really I'm not, at least we have a savings account to take money from, but really, I would love to not have to keep draining it.
It seems that there is much more month left after the money is gone. I think I might have to start watching my pennies more closely.
Do you find that the money is gone before the month ends?
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@just4him (317089)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
22 Aug 16
That was my life up until recently. I always hated paying bills late or not at all because of that fierce juggling act. I have my inheritance now from my parents estate which for the first time in my life gives me breathing room.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
22 Aug 16
i used to not, but with jest the hubs workin', he tends to go'n wild spendin' sprees that cut schtuff purty short 't times. 'fore my weird health hiccups, i could easily make'p the diff'rence without the need to dip 'nto the savin' account.
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
22 Aug 16
@crazyhorseladycx when I was working there was no problem One income is not easy to live with sometimes.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
22 Aug 16
@HazySue i hear ya, hon. one's gotta make some major adjustments 't times.
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@sallypup (61155)
• Centralia, Washington
22 Aug 16
We're pretty simple over here. No cable bill and now no mortage. I guess if I was a clothes hog we'd have more bills bu we don't. Our car is 12 yrs old but putts along so we're still sleepy on getting another one. So the green is pretty much staying where it should be.
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@marsha32 (6631)
• United States
21 Aug 16
I wish my husband would let me take charge of the money and the bills, but he won't.
It would still be a juggling act of which bills gets paid on time and which ones wait when there is more due than what the paycheck is, but guaranteed we would not be in the mess we are in now.
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@CinnamonGrl (7084)
• Santa Fe, New Mexico
21 Aug 16
It usually is now that my insurance is paid out of my social security. Every little bit helps and one of those little bits is myLotting. I need to be getting money into my savings.
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
21 Aug 16
@CinnamonGrl I find that MyLot and HubPages helps me the most.
@Marilynda1225 (82789)
• United States
21 Aug 16
I juggle my bills every month too and wish I had planned better for my retirement.
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
21 Aug 16
@Marilynda1225 so do I. For reasons I can't remember now I thought I would be getting more money from social security and my pension.
