Kin’s Money

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Every Friday I sit down and attack the paperwork that has piled up on my desk through the week. Mail, catalogues, magazines, bills, printouts, kids drawings, notes from daycare, serviettes with email addresses and phone numbers on them.

Since we get paid on Friday, and I’m of the “if it’s in the bank I can spend it” mindset, Friday works out the best day for me to pay the bills. The sooner the money is gone from my account the less likely I am to spend it, and thus get behind on my bills.

I’d like to say that my desk looks like that when I pay my bills but in reality it’s a mess of papers that I try and sort into some kind of order. I usually work on 3 piles: to file, to pay, to do. The to file and to pay piles a self explanatory. The to do pile is things I need to do something with. Cheques to be banked, statements to chase up, forms to be filled in. I try and do this pile as soon as I can, but it doesn’t often work out and some things can sit there for months.

But after today, it’s nice to know all the bills are up to date at least. Now if someone could just file the filing pile for me, my desk would be looking halfway decent. No? Oh well, it shouldn’t take me long.