{"id":2056,"date":"2010-03-19T20:24:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T04:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2010-03-19T23:25:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T07:25:37","slug":"those-dreaded-weekend-payment-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/those-dreaded-weekend-payment-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Dreaded Weekend Payment Delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I have been kind of busy lately and was in the midst of paying the credit card bills.  It is Friday today However, it is passed 5:00pm. Usually all of the banks are closed by now and every digital bill payment you make is delayed until Monday.  Basically, if you had say a payment due this Sunday and say pay your bills today through online means you are semi out of luck.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately that isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the case here as all of my bills have an end of the month deadline.  I guess in these cases it is better to have automatic deductions at times to ensure that your payments will be made on time.  I always like to verify all of my money that is coming in and out though.  As well, I usually try to maximize the amount of time my funds stay in the savings to earn more interest.<\/p>\n<p>Is it worth it in the end?  I guess from a dollar point of view in this one scenario it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really add up to much.  But this habit makes me do the same in other aspects of financial management such as ensuring I understand and verify all of my expenses and savings where I am frequently on the ball with my money.  <\/p>\n<p>I guess like for a health nut while it may be easier and faster to just continually have someone deliver your meals to you knowing where your food comes from everyday and being proactive with it should generally translate to a healthier lifestyle overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I have been kind of busy lately and was in the midst of paying the credit card bills. It is Friday today However, it is passed 5:00pm. Usually all of the banks are closed by now and every digital bill payment you make is delayed until Monday. Basically, if you had say a payment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[217,2467,35,1089,2466],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-credit-cards","tag-delays","tag-finance","tag-interest","tag-weekend-payments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tablet.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-xa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2057,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions\/2057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}