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Gaffes, Blunders, and Goofs

October 29th, 2010 at 12:55 pm

Don't know how I managed to do this, but rather than paying my electric bill and gas bill for the past two months, I paid the gas bill ALL the utility money (two $93 payments and two $141 payments). See where this is going? Huge surplus with Nicor, Huge deficit with ComEd. I never would have noticed this, because ...

I NEVER OPEN THE STATEMENTS (I know, I'm a dumb bunny). They always read the same and this has never been a problem. Until yesterday when I opened up both statements to see the error. Bad news it that Nicor won't refund my money, but I don't need to pay that bill for two months. I owe ComEd $585 (my bad payment track has removed me from the good payee budget system). I owe them $236.96 speedy quick (by the 11/15). THEN, I can break the remaining odd $350 into twelve equal installments to be added to the regular bills for the next year. I suppose it could be really worse, but I feel SO dumb.

(Did I mention this is rather a tight time of year for us? Birthdays and Christmas and parties and the big Irish dance Oireachtas? Not the time to be iresponsible with money)

Then, younger dancing daughter came home in tears, sobbing over her lost dance shoe. She had two - one was hers, the other wasn't. This has me convinced that her other ghillie is floating around the studio and will turn up. Glad to see that her old shoes still fit her (competition tomorrow). Later today I'll send out an email to all the other parents about the shoe that is MIA.

I really hope today is better than yesterday. I am off to the Kindergarten-AM party. If I don't return, I hope that one of your super-sleuths can figure out who I am and where I was last seen. I'm thinking that the 28 kindergartners might try to tie me up and burn me at that the stake!

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4 Responses to “Gaffes, Blunders, and Goofs”

  1. Homebody Says:
    October 29th, 2010 at 01:35 pm 1288359349
    1288359349

    OMGoodness. I guess you will be opening your statements from now on! We lost YD's soccer shorts one year. I have pictures of her playing with pink shorts when the rest of the team has on black or whatever!

  2. creditcardfree Says:
    October 29th, 2010 at 02:59 pm 1288364349
    1288364349

    In this case...take the money from your emergency fund and then pay yourself back over time. It will help ease the squeeze. Sorry that happened. I just realized I overdrew my checking account by about $40. No charges, but I need to investigate.

  3. frugaltexan75 Says:
    October 29th, 2010 at 08:15 pm 1288383327
    1288383327

    Oh wow! This is a good reminder to check your statements. I agree with CCF, take the money from your EF, and then pay yourself back.

  4. Jerry Says:
    October 29th, 2010 at 10:14 pm 1288390472
    1288390472

    I actually did that once (but not twice... you beat me!), and it was a little easier to manage because it was only one month of bills that was messed up. That leads to less financial damage, so we had some insurance that we could fix it up the next month. Good luck getting it all squared away! At least there is a path to get it done.
    Jerry

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