The Addabill blog
Short pieces about the unglamorous part of running a house: what's due, when, and how not to find out from the fee. Written for whoever keeps the bills, whether or not they wanted the job.
Four pieces so far, one to a month.
Showing all four pieces.
A kitchen table, a laptop, the mail pile and about ninety minutes. Here's the order that gets every regular bill onto one month, and the reason for each step.
Read: Your bills live in three places. One evening moves them to one.
Set it and forget it works right up until the morning the draft runs before the paycheck posts. There's a calmer arrangement: hear about the bill, then pay it on a day you picked.
Read: Autopay is not a plan
Four ways to keep bills straight, laid side by side, with the failure of each one named plainly. Ours included.
Read: The sticky note, the spreadsheet and the reminder app
A late fee looks like ten dollars. Count what comes with it and it looks different. Here's the real cost, and the three days before the due date that keep it from arriving.
Read: What a late fee actually costs, and the three days that stop itNothing filed under that topic yet.
The builder
Add three to five of the bills your house actually gets. Watch them land on a month, see the texts you'd receive, and find out which plan fits.
