Comments on: You are overdue!

By: simple american

simple american — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:40:12 +0000

Tax season does that to me. Instead of paying bills, I work on taxes. Which then become another bill. Haiz…

By: kat

kat — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:41:05 +0000

I pay when the bills come… No need to direct debit (which opens up another can of worms when there is a dispute), or tie knots on fingers (half the time I’ll be wondering which knot is for what).

There was this one time where I refused to pay IndahWater, for a few years I believe. Letter after letter, reminder after reminder, until one day, they actually send a letter threatening legal action and a photocopy of the section of the Sewerage Services Act 1993 which I was violating!! What a riot!!

By: rinnah

rinnah — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:45:32 +0000

I tell myself I’ll set-up my account to do direct debit before next month’s bills, but somehow or other I’d not get around to doing it. I rely on my trusty pocket diary where I’ve got all the amounts written in it each month and a reminder about one week before the due dates.

By: LB

LB — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:03:33 +0000

Apart from Standing Orders, I guess the only other way is to religiously tie knots on your fingers.. I mean make your ExpenseAcct.xls on Excel Fun/Easy to Use..

By: beetrice

beetrice — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 08:34:26 +0000

Hehe…oh well, one option would be to make use of the “Direct Debit” facility…only drawback is that they will just start helping themselves to your bank account, even if you complain about discrepancies in the billing!!

PS: One thing I learned…if you make a huge enough fuss about unwarranted interest accrued (ie. they were late processing/the bill arrived late), they’ll usually reverse the charges – but ONLY if they think they can’t ignore you until you drop it.

By: pablopabla

pablopabla — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 06:56:07 +0000

Er…I am a man. So…er….these things just comes automatically. Want the formula? Simple. Step by step formula:-

No. 1 – Wait for salary
No. 2 – Withdraw salary
No. 3 – Pay all bills till salary almost finish liao (don’t worry, you will find enough bills to pay till your salary almost finish wan. Keep finding bills to pay if you still have too much salary remaining)
No. 4 – Live on whatever that’s left for the rest of the month and repeat no. 1

P/s : If you still have lots of money after no. 3 (and even after you have a headache trying to look for bills to pay), I’ll give you my paypal account and you can transfer some funds over