<prompt> Human: Long story short I make enough to cover all of my bills with left over cash for weekly expenses. I get paid weekly and im such a mess with paying bills not knowing if I should pay some early or wait till the due date. Would it be best to bang out all the bills at the beginning of the month as much as possible? Some of the bills due dates can be changed but if I pay it 2 weeks early would it really make a difference to whomever im paying?I realize this is Adulting 101 but the past few months its been a mess for me and I need to get back on track.  <response>: When I was young I just used this approach: When a bill arrives in the mail, open it that day and pay it right then. No letting things pile up. No Ill do that later.If you apply that strategy, you dont have any lingering mental worry about whether things are paid up or not. This was back in the days of writing checks and using stamps. Maybe things are different now and you prefer to set up auto-pay. I liked to verify amounts and keep track of them in my personal finance software.This strategy assumes that you are not living beyond your means. If youre in a paycheck-to-paycheck situation you might have to instead set up a scheduled bill-paying sit-down date regularly, aligned with your pay period.Full disclosure: Now that Im an old fart, with free time on my hands, paradoxically I let things pile up and sometimes end up paying utilities late. Where did my old discipline go? 