{"id":814,"date":"2012-12-13T21:49:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T02:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/?p=814"},"modified":"2014-07-31T15:41:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T19:41:49","slug":"how-do-you-organize-your-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/814","title":{"rendered":"How do you organize your bills?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_815\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 225px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/silas-and-wine.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-815\" title=\"silas and wine\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/silas-and-wine.jpg?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/silas-and-wine.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/silas-and-wine.jpg?resize=112%2C150&amp;ssl=1 112w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/silas-and-wine.jpg?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Me and my buddy, just hanging out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ok&#8230;I admit it; I have a problem. No, it&#8217;s not what you think, there is no 10 step program that will fix this. I have &#8220;ma\u00f1ana&#8221;. I&#8217;m not sure when I contracted it, but I have it bad. It has begun to interfere with my home life. The boss lives by the philosophy of &#8220;Why do tomorrow, what you can do today.&#8221; Well, my attitude is; &#8220;Why do today, what I can do tomorrow?&#8221; So as you can well imagine, this creates some strife.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress.\u00a0 Today&#8217;s topic is all about home organization.\u00a0 How does your family handle its &#8220;fan mail&#8221; (the bills).\u00a0 I normally put them in the kids&#8217; rooms, hoping they&#8217;ll pay them.\u00a0 But, I&#8217;ll be honest; that isn&#8217;t working out to well for me. <!--more-->Paying the bills is always a point of contention in my house; so the a little while back I stumbled upon this &#8220;Bill Binder,&#8221; which seems like such a simple idea &#8211; why hadn&#8217;t I thought of that?\u00a0 It is pretty easy, and so far (knock on wood), it is beating our usual ways of doing business; and our stuff is actually arriving in a timely manner!<\/p>\n<p>All you need for your bill binder is the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Binder with pocket<\/li>\n<li>Dividers<\/li>\n<li>Calendar (I use it for planning the day to pay the bill)<\/li>\n<li>Pen\/marker (I like a real thick RED one).<\/li>\n<li>Bills<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is how I have ours set up, feel free to use your own style&#8230;it&#8217;s not like its patented.\u00a0 First, I put dividers in the binder, I initially left them unlabeled until I figured the best arrangement for our binder. I then put a calendar in front of the dividers, what can I say, I&#8217;m a visual guy. When the bills come in, I simply put them in the pocket, then when the money comes in; I pay them off and file them behind a binder. The most important part, and the part that calms my inner beast, is writing &#8220;PAID&#8221; on the bill as I file it.<\/p>\n<p>Now, this may seem alot of work to some, and it may very well be; but it keeps my attention; which is a hard thing to do, as I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve figured out by now. It also prevents a couple of key issues.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I have all my bills when tax time comes; and they are super-easy to file.<\/li>\n<li>That calendar ensures I pay the bill on time, provided my employer has seen fit to retain me.<\/li>\n<li>I get a real sense of satisfaction when I write &#8220;PAID&#8221; across that bill.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be honest, I don&#8217;t write it in small ink, I have one of those super-sized red markers that I use!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok&#8230;I admit it; I have a problem. No, it&#8217;s not what you think, there is no 10 step program that will fix this. I have &#8220;ma\u00f1ana&#8221;. I&#8217;m not sure when I contracted it, but I have it bad. It has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/814\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8,48],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-household","category-life","category-recommendations","tag-home"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1159,"url":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/1159","url_meta":{"origin":814,"position":0},"title":"Voting day 2013","author":"DR D","date":"November 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Voting took place nationwide today.\u00a0 My race was pretty small, only our Governor, LT. 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So you'll have to bear with me today, as this is not a blog post for your reading pleasure, but a post to request your feedback. So please,\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2609,"url":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/2609","url_meta":{"origin":814,"position":3},"title":"After the Office Christmas Party&#8230;","author":"DR D","date":"December 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The other week my cat was talking to his girlfriend, you may remember her, Jazz. \u00a0It appears that Jazz had a note on her desk when she got back to work from lunch the other day (See the picture on the left). \u00a0She was, you could say: distressed. 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