Cassandra Jung distinctly remembers the moment she and her husband were on holiday in Maui when they had one of their worst arguments. After an early-morning coffee, she zipped down to the hotel's lobby to use the Internet to do some online banking. Her direct deposit from work had gone through that day, and a payment date for a large credit-card balance was looming.
Her husband was floored.
"He was actually angry at me for even thinking about bills when we were supposed to be getting away from it all," says Jung, who works in human resources. "I figured he would appreciate the fact that I was helping us avoid these huge interest charges. If I was the type to overspend and not pay my bills on time, then I could see him being upset."
To Jung, it just made sense to pay her balance once she had the money in her account, even if that meant doing so en route to the beach after watching the sun rise from her oceanfront patio. Paying bills on time was something she'd been doing as a matter of
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