Pay Bills Online and Save $155 Per Year
Recently, I realized that I am down to my last checkbook and started to look around the Web to order a new check. Then I remembered that my brokerage firm had merged with (or acquired by) another firm, thus the check information may have changed. So I went online and found that it will cost me $10 for 100 checks…10 cents a check, not bad. Anyway, I am glad that I don’t have write that many checks anymore because this saves me a lot of time and money.
In the past few years, I managed to move most of by bills to automatic online payment. Let’s see:
- One bill that I switched to payroll deduction with automatic payment (saved 1 check & stamp)
- Mortgage
- Five bills that are automatically paid via credit card (saved 5 checks & stamps, plus I get cash back reward)
- Electricity
- Gas
- Telephone, Cable TV, and Internet
- Cell phone
- Car Insurance
- Three credit cards paid via electronic fund transfers (saved 3 checks & stamps)
- Three bills that still uses checks
- Home Insurance
- Water
- Real Estate Tax
Well, not quite as automated as it can be, but here is the breakdown:
- Saving: 9 checks avoided per month equates to 90 cents, plus $3.69 in stamps = $55 per year saved
- Cash Back Reward: approximately $10,000 per year at 1% = $100 per year
I probably could have done better with a better reward card, but $155 is not bad for less money and more convenience.
I hope you like this tip.
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I like how you pay some of your bills with credit card to get reward. That’s smart.
Tom – welcome to Moolanomy and thank you!
Some online bill payment places charge for the service of doing the service for you so you must watch for this. One I know of would cost you more than you save in stamp and checks in a month.