Did it again!! | ADHD Information
I had my landline at the house disconnected and it was dead toinight!!!! Had plenty of money in the bank - just forgot to pay for a couple, 3 months!!!! 
After a reconnect fee - they had it back on in 2 hours.
Why the heck do I keep doing this?? Never mind, I know, I just can't get in the habit of monitoring the bills - they go in the pile and I forget about them forever!!!! 
A lot of the local utility companies and trash collection know me in town and are very respectful about giving me a curtsy call or tellin me at the school or soccer field to pay up - too bad the phone company is outta portland!!!
Hi, I don't know if this would be helpful, and to tell you the truth I don't do it myself, but I used to work at a place that had a file with 31 folders in it, each labeled with a number from one to 31 for each day of the month. When bills came in, I was to open the bill and see what the due date was, and put it in the file for the day that was 5 days before the due date. So if it was due on the 15th, the bill would go into the file marked 10. If there was a client that needed a follow up call on a certain date, or there was some deadline for something, a slip of paper would go into the file for the proper date. So each morning I would pull the file for that date and either pay whatever bills were there, call whoever, check on whatever.
I always thought that would be a great system to use at home, and I figured it wouldn't be too hard to get myself 31 file folders and keep them in a box. But I'm going back a few years here, and, well, I just never got around to it...
i just send deliquent customers to collections cred bureaus... yadd ayadd
all my personal & biz bills are done by auto draft
How sweet!
And polite~
They curtsy as they demand THEIR money, eh
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[QUOTE=LCdc]A lot of the local utility companies and trash collection know me in town and are very respectful about giving me a curtsy call...[/QUOTE]
How sweet!
And polite~
They curtsy as they demand your money, eh?
huhm - it is an idea. I have resorted to color coded filing systems at work!!! I also use a color coded whiteboard at home.
I talked to a good person on the phone and set up auto pay for the bill along with about 4 others I have set up that way. Once she assured me that if I had a disputed bill amount the check is put on hold until it is resolved!!! My hesitation was with the bills that have an amount that is not the same each month - but I did it anyway, we'll see how it works??
Lc,
We know how you feel! I've gotten many a notice from collection agencies because of not paying bills. Not about the $, just the ADHD. And it seems when I receive a notice, forget something important, say something out of turn(insert rambling endless ADHD list here)-etc, I find that every ADHD moment like that comes rushing back at me like a tidal wave. I say under my breath, "You EEEE-DEEE-OTE!!!"(think Ren of Ren & Stimpy) It seriously bums me out. But I'm trying to buck against it the best I can.
Anyhow, I bought the book "ADD Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life", which I still have not read(shocker), but did find the help-with-bills page. We(my husband is inattentive ADD & I'm ADHD) now have a bill bin in our office where all bills go as I'm going thru the mail, and we've made Monday nite our bill-paying night. Do we do it every single Monday? No, but it is making it easier. I'm also less panicky about where the bills are, because before they were all over in the many piles that take over my kitchen counters, which inevitably get "cleaned up" into one big pile that gets shoved in the a drawer when company comes over, and...you know the rest of the story! So a bin & a designated day of the week are working for us. Its one rung on my giant extend-o ladder! 
p.s. Looking back on High School, I always got marked down in my English classes for run-on sentences...I randomly remembered this one day & had a good ADHD laugh! I write like my mouth talks....on & on............
i don't know if they have a similar system in the US but if you don't pay on time if or are addled, slow or disorganised then they just pile on the cash (as if that will help sort the problem! bastards!!!!) as a penalty. so you have a fifty quid parking ticket - you don't pay it in two weeks it becomes 100 pounds and then 150 and then you get letters/court charges/ pushing it right up into the 3 or 400 quid area (like 0) this is all for overstaying a twenty pence meter or similar. talk about the punishment not fitting the crime - you'd probably be charged less if you ran over a small child.
but they do that with everything. everything. if you are slightly disorganised or untogether with your bank account --- they do it ALL THE FREAKING TIME. thirty-five quid for a bill they paid when you were overdrawn, then add overdrawn charges then charge you again --- then when you think you have it sorted take out the charge money so suddenly you have 95 pounds less in your account than you thought so you buy something thinking you have the cash to cover it and the whole miserable vicious cycle starts again...
it is such a bullsh*t system for ADDers - although it is probably good for discipline and i have to get more discipline in my life so perhaps i ought to be grateful.
but i am ALL for that great guy who just won the nobel prize from bangladesh - what's his name. mohammed yusun or something - what a brilliant guy! started a bank where he lends money to people who actually need it! those people without collateral - not those who already have billions in the bank. what a wonderful guy - so kind so humble so amazing - i am so glad he won the nobel prize.
mohammed yunus that was his name.
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See I am not ADHD (I don't think??) but I always forget to pay bills so I set everything up on my bank's website and everything gets paid on time, hallelujah!!!