While in Davis, my BIL Matt told me about a great budgeting website. Well, Matt, I finally checked it out and let's just say you are the current recipient of the Mandy's Favorite Brother-in-Law Award. (We'll just forget for a moment that you're my only brother-in-law.)
For months, I've been painstakingly entering our spending information on a little budget spreadsheet I created in Excel. Mint.com makes my previously groovy sheet look like something out of 1982.
Not only does it track your spending, it provides the information to you via curvy little bar charts, pie charts and graphs. It showed me that Chad and I spend about $120 less a month on cell phone bills than the average US household. (We patted ourselves on our backs.) It showed us that we spend almost twice a month on our mortgage. (We took sharp objects away from each other.) We were able to download our investment portfolios. (Don't I sound like a real adult?) It showed me up-to-the-minute reports comparing my poor little stocks and funds with the national average.
And it did all this quickly and relatively pain-free. (There were a couple of hairy moments when I couldn't remember the answers to all my secret questions.)
So...if you want a budget tool that will track your spending habits and trends, give you alerts when you've overspent in a budget area and allows you to show your husband that yes, he really spent $123.56 in jojo potatoes and energy drinks, then this website's for you.
1 comment:
we just discovered mint a few weeks back and have found it to be very helpful. the only downside we have found so far is that it doesn't allow you to track your spending for the whole year. i think i'm going to have to blog about mint too!
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