What's the advantage of treasuries over savings accounts? [more inside]
posted on Jun 25, 2008 - 11 answers

Why do electric utilities either not take credit cards for payment or charge ridiculously large surcharges ($5) to do so? [more inside]
posted on Jun 22, 2008 - 9 answers

My roommate owes me $500 in bills and will likely owe twice as much until our lease is up. I need the money. What do I do? [more inside]
posted on Apr 17, 2008 - 24 answers

Help me understand US Treasury securities. [more inside]
posted on Apr 4, 2008 - 10 answers

My husband and his brother have the same first and last names. This has become a big problem with a hospital bill, and I need you guys’ advice on what to do next. [more inside]
posted on Mar 3, 2008 - 17 answers

Do I have to pay for my roommate's HD-TV add-ons for the cable bill? [more inside]
posted on Dec 27, 2007 - 57 answers

How do you keep incoming mail neat, organized, and dealt with in a timely fashion? [more inside]
posted on Dec 26, 2007 - 19 answers

How can I make my landlord tell me what I owe for bills? [more inside]
posted on Dec 9, 2007 - 21 answers

A sheriff visited a former address of mine earlier today to serve documents. I'm not sure what these documents were. What is my best course of action other than hiring a lawyer in terms of getting the scoop? [more inside]
posted on Sep 10, 2007 - 5 answers

My electricity bill is out of control! [more inside]
posted on Jun 4, 2007 - 17 answers

How do I conceptually wrap my head around a monthly budget that doesn't want to play by the rules? My money matters are fairly simple, but the timing is killing me. [more inside]
posted on May 9, 2007 - 20 answers

Utility Credit Issue. At the end of March I terminated a natural gas account. I've been sent to a collection agency. The problem? Well, a couple. Let's start with I paid it. [more inside]
posted on May 1, 2007 - 6 answers

Is there any way to stop a $50 collection action from dinging my credit rating? [more inside]
posted on Apr 3, 2007 - 15 answers

Will it cost less to run a gas furnace to heat the entire house or to use a space heater to heat one room? [more inside]
posted on Jan 3, 2007 - 16 answers

I have a question about bill collectors! [more inside]
posted on Oct 26, 2006 - 13 answers

I recently recieved a bill from my local utilities company stating that they had accidentily undercharged me for the last year. Now they want me to pay 438.53. Here's the letter, is there a way out of this? [more inside]
posted on Oct 24, 2006 - 22 answers

Is there a service that will cancel a service for you? [more inside]
posted on Oct 12, 2006 - 13 answers

What do I do to contest an unfair cell phone bill? [more inside]
posted on Sep 11, 2006 - 17 answers

Help! I need women's shoes. I've been looking for a long time, and can't seem to find the shoes that fit my many requirements. [more inside]
posted on Aug 29, 2006 - 16 answers

What Billpay services will immediately deduct the amount of checks you send from your account? [more inside]
posted on Aug 7, 2006 - 13 answers

Why is our electricity bill so high? [more inside]
posted on Aug 1, 2006 - 23 answers

What are the potential downsides to using a credit card to pay my monthly bills, assuming I pay off the balance every month? [more inside]
posted on Jun 1, 2006 - 30 answers

My mom is concerned that a hurricane could damage enough infrastucture to cause problems if she's making payments electronically. [more inside]
posted on Mar 29, 2006 - 10 answers

How to calculate the likely cost of my winter Gas heating bill (UK)? [more inside]
posted on Mar 3, 2006 - 9 answers

What do my parents owe the hospital? [more inside]
posted on Jan 24, 2006 - 6 answers

Natural Gas billing question... [more inside]
posted on Jan 17, 2006 - 15 answers

Am I entitled to an itemized bill? Do I have any recourse if someone billing me won't provide it? [more inside]
posted on Jan 6, 2006 - 9 answers

Me and the significant other are moving out in about 2 weeks time to our first 1 bedroom apartment. Rent is looking about 1/3 of total income including water, gas and trash (not bad for Southern California) and most of our major furniture/appliance costs seems to be taken care of already. Is there anything we should consider, highlight, or otherwise be aware of before we live the life of paupers?
posted on Jan 5, 2006 - 13 answers

Is there a calendar program that will automatically remind me to do things on a certain date every month? Like, you know, pay my (ahem) credit card bills... [more inside]
posted on Dec 12, 2005 - 24 answers

How do you organise tax receipts, bills, credit card statements, bank statements and all your other paperwork at home? [more inside]
posted on Oct 27, 2005 - 23 answers

What is a good/the best online bill paying service? I am currently using the version of Checkfree that my bank provides but it is absurdly clunky ( but free). I need to be able to set up recurring payments and I would like to be able to make last minute one time payments too, right now the fastest I can make a electronic payment is five business days. I need to manage a wide range of vendors and be able to pay vendors that that are not set up for electronic payment. Right now I still want to get paper bills but in the future may start to switch to electronic billing. Of course the lower the price the better seeing as I have a free service now.
posted on Oct 17, 2005 - 13 answers

Cash Advance Filter! [more inside]
posted on Sep 26, 2005 - 30 answers

Credit Agency/Debt Collection Filter. I just received my free credit report and found that a cable company has turned me over to a collection agency. [more inside]
posted on Aug 27, 2005 - 11 answers

How much does it cost (or what is the amount of electricity / volume of water used) to do one full load of laundry, as an average. Or, how would I go about getting precise figures for this? I want to know how much too much we pay to operate the pay-per-load laundry machines in our new apartment building.
posted on Jul 16, 2005 - 5 answers

Does anyone know if there is a rule, strategy, or timeline that phone companies follow in pursuing outstanding bills from customers? Normally I could care less about such things, but recent dealings with my provider (Cingular) leave me rather puzzled.. [more inside]
posted on Jun 10, 2005 - 10 answers

I owe around $18,000 to Sallie Mae in student loans. I live in the UK. And, now, Sallie Mae has decided to not accept credit cards... [more inside]
posted on Mar 30, 2005 - 6 answers

Can someone with experience in the medical field break down the incredible costs of an emergency room visit for me? [more inside]
posted on Mar 7, 2005 - 23 answers

Multi-unit property, single utility meter. Unit size/occupancy varies widely, and so does the monthly bill. What's a fair (to both parties) way to bill tenants for utilities since their actual usage cannot be determined?
posted on Jan 14, 2005 - 19 answers

Multi-unit property, single utility meter. Unit size/occupancy varies widely, and so does the monthly bill. What's a fair (to both parties) way to bill tenants for utilities since their actual usage cannot be determined?
posted on Jan 14, 2005 - 19 answers

Dollar bill spam? I just got a US dollar bill with a URL on it. Going to said URL brings up the web site of a hotel in the dominican republic. Is this an actual thing? Or is this just someone having some fun?
posted on Dec 28, 2004 - 9 answers

I just finished watching the horribly mangled version of the Big Lebowski on Comedy Central. I never really thought about in all the times I watched it til now, but how do you think Lebowski pays the bills?
posted on Dec 22, 2004 - 20 answers

OK, so my fiance just started med school 2000+ miles away from where I live. To stay in touch and keep our phone bills reasonable, we both got iChat AV cameras for our powerbooks. However, the neccesary ports (16384 to 16403) are not open on her school network. We contacted her IT department and a week later, the guy told her that he couldn't open those ports for security/bandwidth issues, leaving us high and dry. So, what would folks suggest we do in this situation? Is it really a security issue or just bandwidth? Are there any workarounds?
posted on Aug 6, 2004 - 8 answers