I like twice per month. GF and I throw a set amount into a shared account each pay day for bills and shared expenses. Works well.
No. And yes. It's always sudden.
Tara ,'Storyteller'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Glamcookie - Jan 25, 2008 8:14:24 am PST #5436 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Sue - Jan 25, 2008 8:14:48 am PST #5437 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I get paid bi-weekly, which I like. It used to be that one pay was for rent and bills, and the other was for me. Now my mortgage is taken out bi-weekly (and double my rent) so little of it's for me anymore.
megan walker - Jan 25, 2008 8:15:54 am PST #5438 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Mine too. I like it better than every other week.
Yeah, I thought I wouldn't, but I've realized that it makes budgeting so much easier. Of course, it helps that my first check is roughly rent+bills+1/2 of my monthly cash budget. That leaves the second check for debt, savings, and the other 1/2 of my cash budget. Shorter months means I have a bit more cash on a weekly basis, which is nice.
shrift - Jan 25, 2008 8:15:56 am PST #5439 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
My pay days are the 15th and last day of the month
Same. I really hate that my credit card bill needs to be paid a little over a week after I pay rent.
In other news, OH MY GOD, people, stop sending me work! I officially have Too Much To Do.
tommyrot - Jan 25, 2008 8:17:37 am PST #5440 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I really hate that my credit card bill needs to be paid a little over a week after I pay rent.
Some credit card companies will let you change the due date as a one-time courtesy....
Kat - Jan 25, 2008 8:17:39 am PST #5441 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I like getting paid. Period.
I actually find it easier to budget, but that's only because the paycheck hits a few days before a bunch of the biggest required monthly expenses.
I wish this were the case. We get paid on the 5th, which is 5 days after rent is due. And with LAUSD, no one is ever positive that they will get paid, correctly or not.
amych - Jan 25, 2008 8:19:25 am PST #5442 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
We get paid on the 5th, which is 5 days after rent is due.
Ouch. Mine's on the 25th, which makes all the difference (and which imo is one of the best nobody-really-thinks-about-it bennies the looniversity does).
Jesse - Jan 25, 2008 8:20:05 am PST #5443 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Man, I thought I was having trouble getting shit done this morning, but then I had a burrito for lunch, and all I can think now is naaap!
Kat - Jan 25, 2008 8:23:11 am PST #5444 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I think it's time to start looking for a new job for next year. My thoughts on it are: maybe an elementary classroom instead and one near where Grace is? Maybe a high school classroom? I'm tired of the middle school vibe (where in I am the Bouncer or the Day Care Provider) But mostly, I'm tired of my commute.
Allyson - Jan 25, 2008 8:26:15 am PST #5445 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Los Feliz Elementary!!!