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I totally messed up my finances! Send good money juju please!
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 457711" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I've done that before too, and when it happens it tends to snowball. And it's infuriating to try to deal with "those people". I'm afraid of "auto pay" for anything other than bills that stay the same every month. I use it for my car insurance and another insurance policy but never for utility bills that I want to check before I pay them. I pay my city utility bill by check every month, for my water, sewer, gas and garbage collection. All was fine until the city decided to install new water meters to everyone on my street. The very next bill was a ridiculous amount for water - five times more than usual! I could NEVER use that much water, even if I turned on a hose and let it run down the street! It was for twice as much water as what my landlord uses in the car wash he owns! The lady at city hall wouldn't budge! She said that there couldn't possibly be anything wrong with it since it was a <em>brand new</em> water meter! Yeah, right! She even suggested that maybe my neighbors were sneaking over and using my water while I was at work! Like if I came home early one day I might find them lined in my yard in their bath robes carrying their laundry baskets to sneak in and use my shower and washer! I still had to pay the outrageous bill. They never said anything else but a few weeks later I came home to find fresh dirt dug up around the water meter like a different one had been put in, and the next month my bill was back to the normal amount!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 457711, member: 1883"] I've done that before too, and when it happens it tends to snowball. And it's infuriating to try to deal with "those people". I'm afraid of "auto pay" for anything other than bills that stay the same every month. I use it for my car insurance and another insurance policy but never for utility bills that I want to check before I pay them. I pay my city utility bill by check every month, for my water, sewer, gas and garbage collection. All was fine until the city decided to install new water meters to everyone on my street. The very next bill was a ridiculous amount for water - five times more than usual! I could NEVER use that much water, even if I turned on a hose and let it run down the street! It was for twice as much water as what my landlord uses in the car wash he owns! The lady at city hall wouldn't budge! She said that there couldn't possibly be anything wrong with it since it was a [I]brand new[/I] water meter! Yeah, right! She even suggested that maybe my neighbors were sneaking over and using my water while I was at work! Like if I came home early one day I might find them lined in my yard in their bath robes carrying their laundry baskets to sneak in and use my shower and washer! I still had to pay the outrageous bill. They never said anything else but a few weeks later I came home to find fresh dirt dug up around the water meter like a different one had been put in, and the next month my bill was back to the normal amount! [/QUOTE]
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