do you get paid.. weekly, biweekly??

how do you save and pay bills accordingly to ur pay schedule?

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Worse...once a month!!! Kinda works for now though, I get a big fat check every month and have the money to pay all the bills at one time. Stinks though when you get to around the last week before pay day!!!

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me, weekly, fh biweekly. after all the bills are paid, we put a set amount into our savings account. we also leave a 'cushion' in checking so it is never empty, to cover things like atm fees, gifts for birthdays, the oddball expense.

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I get paid once a week. I put money towards each bill once a week.

We use the "Envelope" system

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biweekly

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I try to figure out when bills are coming in vs. when I'm getting paid...

Like my van payment is due on the 11th of every month. So I make sure (since I'm biw) that out of the first check, I get that paid along with the credit cards that will roll in b/4 the tail of the month. I always pay the mort, ins, and cell at the end of the month.

As for personal allocation of $$$ (gas, food, misc expenses), I try to only allow myself $50.00 a week (which never holds true). I be po!

Save, what's save??

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bi monthly. i pay certain bills with each check.

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Biweekly. Don's check goes into checking and thats what we use to pay mortgage, rent, etc..

My check goes into our savings account and thats what we use towards our food bill, going out etc...

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bi-weekly

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DH and I get paid bo-weekly and on the same schedule which I really hate. I feel like I have to plan so far ahead. Save...we try to sav as much as we can and when we can.

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I am biweekly

DH is also, but he gets tips on Fridays and Saturdays.

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DH and I get paid biweekly

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We use both our salaries from our "day" jobs and pay bills and such with that. As for our night job, we don't see that money, it goes directly into our savings acct that we don't touch.

I get paid weekly, DH gets paid bi-weekly!

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We both get paid bi weekly but we don't pay bills according to that.
We have worked to save up extra so that our bills are all on auto pay for when they are due.
I used to pay bills according to when I got paid though. I had everything written out on a calander each month. I have to say its so nice not doing that anymore.

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I'm weekly, DH is bi-weekly.

I don't know how he does it, but he's got bill paying down to a science! There are spread sheets everywhere. I just gave up and left it up to him.

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Bi-Weekly

I am so paranoid about paying bills late I save as much as I can at all times...this way I am never low on bill funds...

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1x a month.....

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Monthly. I hated it at first, but nowI get my paycheck, pay the rent, the bills and what not, all in one shot and I'm done for the month.

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I get paid weekly, DW weekly. I pay all the bills electronically once a month - no correlation to pay period.

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I'm bi-weekly and DH is once a month. We always keep enough in checking that we don't have to worry about paying our bills according to our pay cycles. We mostly just pay the bills as they come in the mail, or have it set up to pay automatically through online billpay.

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I get paid bi-weekly, on certain dates of the month.
DH gets paid bi-weekly on Fridays.
Our schedules work out great because sometimes we have a check coming in every week, however, we do sometimes have our checks coming in 2 weeks....confusing..I know.

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I am paid monthly, DH bi-weekly. The bills are paid as they come. We do not wait for the paycheck to pay the bills, we us the money oin the bank.

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we both get biweekly...and the same week! So sometimes it runs real thin!

What we do is write down on a calendar when each bill is due (and sometimes the grace period to stretch it) and pay accordingly.

To save money, we buy groceries when they are on a great sale (like when ramen noodles were 12 for $1!!!)