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Bills are an area in which many slobs struggle.  There is nothing particularly difficult about writing a check, licking a stamp, and sticking a bill in the mail, but there is nothing particularly interesting about it either.  Bills blend in with the rest of the pile of junk mail, and there is no question what they contain, so why open them?

All we see is an envelope that does not contain any of the mail slobs care about: a birthday card with cash, a personal letter, or items purchased from a catalogue. Companies are often coming out with commercials that claim it is exciting to open their bills, because of all the huge savings.  But slobs don’t think about savings, because we rarely notice or contemplate the amount on the checks we write.  We just know that it is money that we are not going to get to keep or spend on something interesting.  We when we think of exciting savings, we think about how much money we save by not opening our bills at all.  If utilities such as phone services and cable television really want to make opening their bills exciting, they should send us little surprises like:

• Cash
• Candy
• Movie tickets
• Romantic poetry
• The phone numbers of their cutest employees
• And space pens that write even when they’re upside down

If you handle money the same way I do, you’ll probably gonna’ want to check out these tips for how to deal with calls from bill collectors.