So far June is looking really good in the sense that none of my immediate family has asked me to “help out” with anything except good old fashioned advice.
Yesterday my mom asked me to setup a tracking system on a plain piece of paper for their household bills. That way she can at least keep track of what they have paid and so forth. Before they combined households, I provided this for her and it seemed to work out really well.
They are looking at their household expenses differently now that they know they must rely on their own income. Basically, they get some sort of income once per week and they must pay any bill that came in the week before regardless of the due date. Their original error was to put the bill aside and use the Gone With The Wind phrase- “I’ll think about that tomorrow.” That obviously wasnt working! Anything left over is for “living.”
Before you know it, they’ll have all this extra money and all their bills mysteriously paid (note the sarcasm)!
