It is easy to file bills away without paying any attention to all those pages of charges.

The following is a guest post by WilliamPaid.com If you are like many, around the 25th of the month, you start getting a little nervous. Not because time is flying by or you haven’t met your monthly quota at work. No, this gnawing little feeling has to do with that four letter word: Rent.

Credit cards give us the convenience of letting us pay off our charges over time. However, one of the risks associated with them is the prevailing problem of identity theft. Few people realize just how easy it is for someone to steal their identity using only the information from their credit cards.

I haven’t done a weekly roundup in a while so thought I’d share one for today. Things have been fairly calm over here in the Not Made of Money household.

photo credit: alanwoo I’ve blogged on numerous occasions how we religiously keep our receipts . They are the foundation of the financial reporting system for our family finances because we use them to track, identify, classify and graph our itemized expenses