I went through all my bills, my accounts. and records and sorted out my bills by day of the month and amount.  I then paid everything due the rest of this month (minimums) and set up some automatic payments through my bank account.

Unfortunately while I was going through my records I noticed I missed a payment! Hopefully my new system will prevent that from happening again.

I set all bills due to be paid before the 16thto be paid the first week of the monthautomatically (using the last paycheck of the previous month) all the remaining bills get paid withthe first paycheck of the month.

The good think is I now know what my checking account balance needs to be on every day of the month so I can safely move money into my savings account now.  Oh, btw, I snagged one of those $25 dollar referral codes and opened an ING account yesterday, it was already credited withthe 25 dollar bonus so I made some easy money there.  I’ll post up that deal tomorrow, and, I already received some referral codes of my own!  I’ll post those up too with details.

So I now know what I owe and when I owe it.  Time to go through the income numbers.

I’ve been reading a lot about Mint.com budgeting software (it’s an online program and it’s free)  I’ll be downloading that in the next day or so and trying it out.  I’ll post up a review of that.

I’m almost done with this prep work, hopefully, starting next week I’ll have my budget and payment plan setup.  Then I can get started with some real money making endeavors!

I already feel like i’m getting something done here! i’m motivated and excited!

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