Congrats! Unexpected cash is always nice. I got a check the other day for an escrow overage for like $465 that made my day a whole lot better.
I do the same. My rule is if I don't have the money to pay it off fully when it's due, I don't buy it. But I guess I can't judge others situations. There could be situations when you just don't have a choice.Originally Posted by LSULOVER
We never carry a balance on our credit cards, when we charge something, we pay it off when we get our statement.
Yeah... we had a small issue with a $3000.00 water bill a few years ago. The city wouldn't let us switch the bill out of our names and into someone else's until the bill was paid. DH and I were renting a house so we didn't have any choice. I really should go back to them and do some more investigation on what happened, but I was so frustrated by the people who worked there it was simply better to just pay them, rather than go to court.Originally Posted by ReesesPBC
I do the same. My rule is if I don't have the money to pay it off fully when it's due, I don't buy it. But I guess I can't judge others situations. There could be situations when you just don't have a choice.
We just use the credit cards when we are somewheres and wanna save our cash. I use it every year to get our tickets and stuff to Talladega when we go in October, I purchase all the tickets for us and our friends and they pay me their money before the credit card is due.Originally Posted by ReesesPBC
I do the same. My rule is if I don't have the money to pay it off fully when it's due, I don't buy it. But I guess I can't judge others situations. There could be situations when you just don't have a choice.
A 3000 dollar water bill, something had to be wrong somewheres, they woulda had to send someone out to check and see what was wrong. They woulda got tired of looking at my face because they woulda been seeing me about every day. There is no way on God's green earth I would have ever paid it.Originally Posted by lookingglass
Yeah... we had a small issue with a $3000.00 water bill a few years ago. The city wouldn't let us switch the bill out of our names and into someone else's until the bill was paid. DH and I were renting a house so we didn't have any choice. I really should go back to them and do some more investigation on what happened, but I was so frustrated by the people who worked there it was simply better to just pay them, rather than go to court.
Yeah same here, either that or if the amount is too big to be covered by what's in our checking at the moment and we haven't transferred from savings. Sometimes though I just like having a month not to lose the money but I always pay by the due date.Originally Posted by LSULOVER
We just use the credit cards when we are somewheres and wanna save our cash. I use it every year to get our tickets and stuff to Talladega when we go in October, I purchase all the tickets for us and our friends and they pay me their money before the credit card is due.