Dealing with paperwork weekly, as opposed to daily, when you receive it, lets you batch these types of tasks together, which saves you time.No matter when you get paid, bills come due at various times during the month, and typically the due dates have nothing to do with your schedule for getting paid.Why should you do this weekly? There are several reasons that a weekly schedule for bill paying works best, even if you don't get paid every week, but instead twice a month, monthly, every two weeks, or like me, since I work for myself, irregularly.
The next step in the Organize Bills Challenge is to set up a weekly paperwork session for yourself to pay bills, focus on household financial issues, and deal with any other paperwork you need to do around your home. Step 2: Set A Weekly Schedule To Focus On Your Household Finances And Pay Bills The bill organizer is based on a similar concept as a tickler file so if you've begun using one of these, which was a suggestion in last week's challenge article, the tickler file can also do double duty to help you organize your bills for timely payment as well. If you wish to corral your bills in a specific bill organizer, such as one which helps you differentiate the due dates for the bills, you can use a product such as the one shown to the right, called a 31 slot monthly bill organizer. When you receive any bills in the mail I suggest quickly opening the envelope and write the due date for the bill on the front of the envelope it came in, so you make sure you know by what date it needs to be paid, and don't miss the deadline. The reason you've got to keep all your bills in one location is to make sure you deal with each one of them during your weekly paperwork session (see step 2 below), and don't forget some of them are in your purse, while others are by the bed, and others are on the kitchen table buried under a big stack of other papers, for example. In fact, gathering these bills into one place is a task I suggest you do as part of your daily routine for organizing paperwork. If you worked on last week's challenge, about creating a home mail center, you've already done this step for the Organize Bills Challenge, since you're already corralling your mail and sorting through it as it comes in the door of your home.