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We've taken several 30 day trips away from home, each time I just prepay the recurring monthly bills.
But looking at a 45-ish day trip to walk the CF, not sure that pre-paying bills before departure is the smart way to do things.
How do you pay your household bills while you are on the Camino? Do you leave someone behind and have them take care of the bills? Do you pay everything on-line and simply log in and pay on-line while traveling? Other?
using my iPad, I just go online and pay whoever, whatever, whenever
I receive and pay my bills on line. When I have wifi at a cafe or albergue hotel or pension I take a few moments to check bills and pay if necessary.I set up my bills on auto pay for the estimated 2-3 billing cycles I planned to be away.
If you have a data plan for your ipad or something like a mifi, that's all fine and good, but using public wifi for this is extremely insecure, just FWIW. I would never use hotel wifi to pay bills, for instance, since it's pretty easy for anyone who knows how to intercept your communications.
So do I. Everything goes on my credit card so that I get air miles. That just leaves the credit card to be paid off every month and a family member performs that duty for me when I am traveling beyond the 30 day period in which I have to pay. In a pinch I could do it myself using wireless, but having heard several sides to the security issue, I opt for "an abundance of caution".I have all my regular household bills set for autopay, even when I'm at home.
Amen to technology.I work overseas, so I have a combination of autopay, and on-line banking transfers, and occasionally an adult at home if required. Obviously this means that if you want a techonology-free Camino, then you will want to find another way of handling the second method (on-line banking).
As @jirit says, life was MUCH different a few decades ago when the internet didn't exist. I was juggling bank transfers and sending cheques by mail (again from a remote overseas location) and missed one 'ball' by about 2-3 days (i.e. transfer into my French account arrived AFTER a cheque was presented for payment). The cheque bounced, and I received a officious letter informing me that it was illegal to present a cheque with insufficient funds to cover it, and that I would be jailed for six months the next time I set foot in France (which was where my home was based!!!). Several frantic phone calls and letters later, I managed to sort things out, but it wasn't pleasant!!!
Thanks goodness for today's techonology!!
Buen Camino
Suzanne
If you have a data plan for your ipad or something like a mifi, that's all fine and good, but using public wifi for this is extremely insecure, just FWIW. I would never use hotel wifi to pay bills, for instance, since it's pretty easy for anyone who knows how to intercept your communications.
ALL our regular bills are paid by "Direct Debit" (UK), whether we're at home or away. I presume the same sort of system exists elsewhere? I wouldn't want to log on to bank account when on Camino re security issues.We've taken several 30 day trips away from home, each time I just prepay the recurring monthly bills.
But looking at a 45-ish day trip to walk the CF, not sure that pre-paying bills before departure is the smart way to do things.
How do you pay your household bills while you are on the Camino? Do you leave someone behind and have them take care of the bills? Do you pay everything on-line and simply log in and pay on-line while traveling? Other?
We've taken several 30 day trips away from home, each time I just prepay the recurring monthly bills.
But looking at a 45-ish day trip to walk the CF, not sure that pre-paying bills before departure is the smart way to do things.
How do you pay your household bills while you are on the Camino? Do you leave someone behind and have them take care of the bills? Do you pay everything on-line and simply log in and pay on-line while traveling? Other?
If you do end up having to pay on line along the way on a public computer, I would be sure you can delete the transaction in 'History" when your are done.
Hi Eileen, you should always inform your bank when you travel. I'm an oldie so I learned this years ago. Buen CaminoAll my bills are paid online, most of them by Direct Debit. The couple that have to be keyed in manually are small amounts payable fortnightly, so when I walk my Camino I'll pay them them ahead of time before going.
Something I just thought about. I'm wondering if it might be a good idea to inform my bank where I'll be so that they know there will be no ATM or card transactions in England during the period until I inform them I'm back. Has anyone else done this for extra security reasons?
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