Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Paying your bills with Remember The Milk

Keeping up with your bills can be a tedious affair every month, as Bob knows. This week’s tip, shared by robyn.sukenik, offers a simple setup with repeating tasks and notes that will help you always have the correct information to pay your bills quickly.

I’ve used Remember The Milk as a reminder to pay through my bills for a very long time, but recently I found a way to make things even easier using the note section in Remember The Milk.

Whereas previously, I would see a reminder in Remember The Milk to pay my water bill, for example, and then pull the hard copy or e-copy of the bill to find the information like a phone number or the web address for bill pay - now I just keep all of the information I need to pay the bill in the notes section.

For example, my water bill looks like this:

Pay Water Bill ^ August 1 *every month #bills

Once that’s entered, I enter in to the task’s notes sections and add all of the information I need to pay the bill looking only at Remember The Milk:

Account: Acme Water
Account Name: Bob Monkey
Customer Number: 100045
Bill Pay Phone #: 1 800 222 2222
Internet Bill Pay: www.paywater.com (login: my email)
Value per month: $100-$200 (this way I know if there's something wrong with the amount quoted).

Once I’ve used this to pay the bill I then record in a separate note the amount payed and the confirmation receipt number that proves the payment went through. I.e.:

Paid May Bill - Confirmation #3487348 for 158.41 (on time)

This system is foolproof, even if you’re traveling or a bill gets lost in the mail or delayed you can make sure you have all of the information you need to pay your bills on time.

Thanks for sharing this tip, robyn.sukenik! You’re our Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner this week.

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