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I can pay all of our bills online, via our Credit Union’s Bill Payee. I have a few set to automatically come out, when they are due, but most of them, I do as they arrive or I am emailed the amount, like our electric bill. I don’t use a debit card for this, because I watched a movie one time, “Catch Me if You Can” and the man the movie was based on, and portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio said that if you must use a card, always use a Credit Card because you actually have more control over the credit versus the debit card. A debit card you are responsible for anything that is charged on it, even if it is stolen information and charged to your account but the credit card you have a legal amount you are responsible but above that, the credit card will “eat the costs” that was charged to your account if it was hacked. So that made more sense to me, and besides that, the credit card has rewards pinned to it, for every dollar you spend, you receive a reward and I use them as credit on my account to keep a balance that I don’t pay, when I have charged something that I forgot about. Hope this makes sense to y’all, it makes a lot of sense to me.
