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Page 2, Viewpointe August 2019
Paying Bills

By Judith Levy knows these companies bill people at least three weeks ahead, So, if you’ve got it, why not pay it immediately? I know
and he also knows there’s a grace period, so what’s the hurry? you’ll lose a few pennies of interest in your account by
When we make our vows, He moves the bill to heaven knows where and when it’s time paying a bill as soon as you receive it, I know companies take
“For richer, for poorer,” to pay it, we can’t find it. Was it thrown out? Who knows? If advantage of nervous bill payers like me, but I still prefer to
we each agree and say “I we do find it, usually we can’t find the envelope so we may do it that way.
do.” But who do? When it not have the proper address, so now I have to call for that. The compromise my husband and I have reached is that
comes to making money Do I get a person to respond to me? I pay all the utilities, so I’m never in a position of getting
decisions in a household, Absolutely not! All I get is a recording that admonishes any threatening letters about shutting off the lights. The
who gets to say the final me to listen carefully because their menu has changed. I other bills lay in a heap on the desk and I just look the other
word? I think personality didn’t know I was calling a restaurant but I take directions way. Funny thing is, all the bills get paid sooner or later. To
has a lot to do with how that well, so I listen carefully to the menu. When they’re done be sure, there is an occasional finance charge to be paid, but
problem evidences itself and how it all works out. talking and none of the options they offer match my question over the year it really doesn’t amount to all that much. And
For instance, my husband and I have different attitudes they repeat the entire endless message. If I don’t choose one best of all, we don’t argue about it. Life is easier and happier
when it comes to paying bills. When I get a bill in the mail, immediately, they hang up on me! that way.
it’s almost like a hot potato. I quickly look it over, and once When we find the bill that has been hanging around the
I ascertain that it’s correct, I get my checkbook, make out a house for weeks I see that we’re late. We’ll have to pay a Judith Levy is the New York Times best-selling author of
check right away, and have it back outside in my mailbox. finance charge and a penalty because the money owed won’t GRANDMOTHER REMEMBERS which has sold over four
I almost feel a sigh of relief as I walk back into the house. be received on time. Some times the penalty for late payment million copies and the mega best seller GRANDFATHER
The job is done, and nothing is hanging over my head. can be as much as fifteen dollars or more. REMEMBERS, published by HarperCollins. 
When my husband receives an envelope that surely
contains a bill his immediate reaction is to put it aside. He

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