Darren New wrote:
> Probably reading the rules is easier. Check for "grace period" and see 
> what it says.

More specifically, see what your grace period is and what your monthly 
billing date is. Sign up for on-line bill paying at your bank. Complain 
at them if it isn't free, or at least if it costs more than a stamp.

When you get the credit card bill, log in to your bank and set up a 
payment of the amount you owe, to go thru several days before it's due.

Job complete.

More-organized people collect the mail, open the bills, and put them 
into a little sorter with 31 slots in it, one for each day by which you 
have to deal with that bill, available at all good office supply stores. 
Then each day, when you pick up the mail, you look at which slots are 
coming up and handle at least the looming ones if not all of them.

Usually you have at least a week to pay any bills you get, often two or 
three. So sit down once a week at a specific time on a specific day and 
spend 10 minutes dealing with it, even if it's just writing the checks 
and stamping the envelopes rather than working it online.

If you're going on vacation, *then* overpay by how much you think you 
might spend, or at least overpay the minimum charges, or set up an 
online bill pay to go through for at least the minimum charges you 
expect about the time you expect to get the bill.

Failure to pay your cable bills on time is probably dinging your credit 
card accounts as well.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
  Ever notice how people in a zombie movie never already know how to
  kill zombies? Ask 100 random people in America how to kill someone
  who has reanimated from the dead in a secret viral weapons lab,
  and how many do you think already know you need a head-shot?

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