Coincidence...!!!!
I use a development of your wonderful system you have outlined above: I simply pay all my bills as soon as they arrive, thereby saving hours of programming, modifying, scanning, clicking and dragging. Also if someone says you haven't paid, you know you have. Further evidence of disputed payments can be found in online banking statements......

The time saved can be used for relaxing, drinking, or simply one handed solo pleasures.
(Colonel Blink is now officially a pretentious prick, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 12:56, 1 reply)

I too
generally pay bills as and when they come in (apart from when I'm on holiday).

However, not having a bank account means I cannot rely on bank statements to prove anything.

When I did have a bank account they seemed for the most part to be a work of fiction half the time anyway. They also used to charge £5 for a 'replacement' statement, despite me having opted for the 'paperless' option of only having them online. Of course, the online statements were only there for 3 months, so if I'd had a payment disputed after three months, I'd be a fiver down simply proving that I'd already paid the said bill.

I doubt that me simply me telling them that I would have paid the bill the moment it came in would prove anything to them.

It was a small price to pay for not having to use a bank and waste hours of lunchtimes and Saturday mornings queuing up to speak to a 'personal wanker' to sort out yet another problem that they had originated.
(dchurch bah, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 13:01, closed)

yes
you really are into those touch screens! i don't blame you mate, even finding out you have cancer is palatable if discovered via the medium of a touch screen.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 13:23, closed)

they
do make life easier.
(dchurch bah, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 13:25, closed)

Meh ..
I started scanning stuff in and filing it on my computer but it got way too tedious and boring. Decided to do this instead:

- 1 ringbinder
- 12 sleeves, one for each month

Wack in everything you get this month into one sleeve and cycle when next month comes. When you make a full round into 12 months and 12 full sleeves, you simply empty out the sleeves one by one as you go along. Extended warranties and V5s etc go into the permanent file.

.. Yes, I do have a girlfriend.

.. No, she isn't online.
(MrNorm, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 16:29, closed)