Well, looks like my fancy July budget is in the crapper. I got a letter in the mail stating I never paid my June payment for one of my student loans (I was POSITIVE I did...) So, now I have to come up with $135 ($120 plus late fee) to send them ASAP.
What is really bugging meis, I KNOW I wrote out that check. I remember thinking "Oooh, this payment will be early." And I updated my Debt Tally here with it. But I checked and the check number hasn't been cashed. I guess I will assume it got lost in the fricken mail. Grrrr.
So, looks like there will be some struggles for the rest of this month, as the budget was already pretty thin. We're trying to meet new budget amounts (gas in car, gas at home, electricity, groceries, etc)but this is the first month trying it and as it is, I don't think we are going to hit those new numbers. *sigh* What's another month of struggling when you've been strugging for almost 12 years, right?
Budget Broken
July 11th, 2007 at 11:33 am
July 11th, 2007 at 11:58 am 1184155120
July 11th, 2007 at 12:37 pm 1184157431
Have you called to verify they never received it? Also, is there an electronic payment option so you can avoid this happening again?
Are you positive you actually mailed the check? That happened to me once. I got a notice that my mortgage payment was late. I had the payment stub. I had the check recorded in my checkbook register. And a week after getting the late notice, I found the unmailed payment in the bag I take to work everyday. I always toss the outgoing mail in there and mail it at my office. This one envelope got buried in there and was never mailed.
July 11th, 2007 at 03:06 pm 1184166413
July 11th, 2007 at 07:30 pm 1184182247
Thanks for the motivation all!