Weekly Checking Account Balance & Bills Paid

I wrote previously that we balance our checkbook and pay bills on a weekly basis.  We’ve done this for years now and it has kept our finances easy to manage.  In the early years of the marriage we used to do this together.  We would sit down and get all the receipts and bills (we store them in one central location).  One person would read the information about the receipt out loud, while the other person would enter the data into Quicken (the software we use to manage our finances).  This was great because it forced us to talk about our finances and made us both accountable for them.  We always felt it was important that each of us knew and took responsibility for our financial situation. 

We have continued the weekly posting update (as we like to call it) but now we alternate turns.  I do the posting one week and he does it the next.   This week was my turn.  I posted all the receipts and paid all the bills.  I noticed that the property taxes bill is due soon and we will get a discount by paying it before November 30.  I will be writing more on that in the next day or so.   

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