I don’t agree with automating all your bills, unless you also read them very closely. You could be taken for a lot if you aren’t on the lookout. Mistakes can and will be made.
I don’t like the automated pay thing myself. I’ll take the trouble to write the checks. I’m just not comfortable with signing to let anyone help themselves to my checking account whenever they feel like it.
You are so right about automating bills. I paid a gas card automatically and one time actually read the statement and saw two filllups in the local bad hood. THen I went back and for three years, three years, I had been filling up someone’s tank who had my card and I didn’t know,,,three years!!!!
And occasionally an auto charge goes on, the last I noted was one that had been going on two years to real networks,,my husband had subscribed to something and hadn’t realized it.
Only because lately I am noticing and looking at bills did I even notice it and since I pay, anything conputerwise I assume he charged.
Now I watch them like a hawk!!