Thanks for voting!Ever find yourself dialing up take-out 3 or 4 nights a week because you don’t feel like making dinner? Didn’t sign up for online bill-pay to ensure your payments are made on time? Too lazy to shop for the best buys at the store? Can’t bear the thought of ironing your own work clothes? Sure, it happens to the best of us, but your laziness could be costing you chunks of change. All due respect, it’s time we all got off our butts and started kicking the financial laziness habit. Don’t feel like believing us? A few small changes can transform you from lazy bones to financial dynamo in no time.
Just like starting a workout plan, financial laziness can be curbed by starting with baby steps. Search online for no-fee ATMs. No one should have to pay fees to retrieve their own money. Check your bills to make sure they’re accurate and for crying out loud call if they’re not. Sorry, we don’t mean to yell. We’re just passionate about not giving your hard-earned money away. When you’re feeling pretty comfortable with these “motivators,” redirect your energy over to Get Rich Slowly for a few more exercises to make your financial laziness go away.
Loading ...
Auto pay is really a god send. Sure setting it up can rob 5-10 minutes of your precious time and you gotta find that sticky note with your account/routing numbers which floating somewhere in the office in your home (my finincial info is stored securely mind you ; )
You can save so much money and frusteration by avoiding the hassle of physically writing checks, remembering the amount, mailing address, due date, the oh so expensive stamp, late fees if you forget, or if there is a hicup in the US mailing system.
We have all this technology to our lives easier. I’ve chosen to not live like a caveman anymore.
The idea of starving a few “Fee Vampires ” to death always appeals to me. The fact that a huge amount of today’s enourmous credit card debt is due to “Laziness” and fostered innattentive-ness via the misicule fine print of many financial agreements should be a wake up call to everyone.