> Why do we all get paid the same each month, pay the same rent/mortgage but some months have 4 weekends, some have 5.
Is paying monthly an American thing? In Australia most things seem to revolve around n weeks.
- I get paid on Thu every second week (2 weeks)
- My pre-paid phone auto-recharged is every 28 days (4 weeks).
- House rentals are listed as weekly rates, paid at whatever n weeks you negotiate.
- Mortgages are monthly by default, but most let you opt for n weeks, so most people pick the day after they are paid. Interest is still added monthly though.
The only things I can think of that I'm charged monthly for are online subscriptions, which I suspect got influenced by America.
> We should have 13 months, all 28 days long, exactly 4 weeks. Whenever there's a leap year we get an extra day for free.
Same length months would be cool... but as above, months don't mean practical month to me except for having to remember which one we are in.
> Is paying monthly an American thing? In Australia most things seem to revolve around n weeks.
Like pretty much everything else, it depends. On the income side, being paid biweekly is the norm in my experience, but some jobs pay semimonthly (my current job does and I kind of hate it). Recurring bills tend to be monthly, but I've had some which were weekly or biweekly. So it all kind of varies.
Is paying monthly an American thing? In Australia most things seem to revolve around n weeks.
- I get paid on Thu every second week (2 weeks)
- My pre-paid phone auto-recharged is every 28 days (4 weeks).
- House rentals are listed as weekly rates, paid at whatever n weeks you negotiate.
- Mortgages are monthly by default, but most let you opt for n weeks, so most people pick the day after they are paid. Interest is still added monthly though.
The only things I can think of that I'm charged monthly for are online subscriptions, which I suspect got influenced by America.
> We should have 13 months, all 28 days long, exactly 4 weeks. Whenever there's a leap year we get an extra day for free.
Same length months would be cool... but as above, months don't mean practical month to me except for having to remember which one we are in.