Comments on: Free Online Budgeting & Planning Software Tools

By: aua868s

aua868s — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:53:06 +0000

mint has been working out great for me.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:50:18 +0000

I use an older form of MS Money and it works for me. I might try one you recommend just to compare features.

By: Soccer9040

Soccer9040 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:56:12 +0000

Whatever works best for you. Everyone has their own way of doing it. What really matters is that you are actually doing something about it.

So many people have NO CLUE how much they spend.

By: Soccer9040

Soccer9040 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:54:33 +0000

We just moved recently and we took a month off of making cornhole bags. The website had a place holder on it, but Jim actually told me yesterday there was an error. I had my web team take a look and it was fixed sometime yesterday. Any day now we will have it back on and accepting orders. Thanks for checking it out.

By: mikestreb

mikestreb — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:25:14 +0000

I clicked on your link and see you do Cornhole stuff. I just played last week for the first time and loved it (although I am terrible). Your website says you are busy. When do you expect to start taking orders again? I am going to be building some boards in the next few weeks and need a good set of bags to go with.

By: mikestreb

mikestreb — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:05:33 +0000

That is cool. I should get an iPhone.

Doesn’t paypal kill you on the rates though?

By: jdrock

jdrock — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:57:44 +0000

Mint has been my first budgeting tool and its working great for me. Its especially helped me cut my spending on eating out/drinks which I was wasting way too much money on. Its also helpful in giving reminders for credit card bills and when you go over budget. I can’t see myself switching to anything else in the near future.

By: James

James — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:37:28 +0000

Anyone have a suggestion for Investment Portfolio web sites? I really liked MSN Money web site’s portfolio software (which is very similar to MS Money box version), it was very comprehensive and included all the features that I would want.

However, they recently updated the web version and it seems more of a downgrade than an upgrade. The look and feel is not as clean as the older version.

Thanks for any tips!

By: mike

mike — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:58:59 +0000

the ADs don’t get annoying in Mint.com you only see them when you go to the Ways to Save Tab which isn’t something I use anyway. I mainly use it for the alerts and budgeting capabilities and I’m still waiting for them to iron out the details for the Investment feature

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:44:43 +0000

@centsandthecity BudgetPulse.com is free and is a manual system where we do not sync with personal bank or credit card information. Feel free to email me directly if you have any questions I could ease your concerns with. craig@budgetpulse.com

By: centsandthecity

centsandthecity — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:36:02 +0000

I tried Mint, but honestly giving my password scared me too much. I definitely need to try something new now though.

By: Jill

Jill — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:29:35 +0000

They do now! They used to not be supported, but go and add them again or update your login credentials and you will see it is now supported.

By: Jill

Jill — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:28:59 +0000

I also use my credit card for everything and sit down every day or two to record transactions – I pull up the online statement and then record the amounts in the proper categories in my spreadsheet.

By: Soccer9040

Soccer9040 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:21:44 +0000

How do you keep track of your daily spending? Do you throw your receipts in your pocket and sit down at the end of the day to tally it all up?

That sounds like alot of work to me.

I use my credit card for EVERYTHING. Every day or so I fire up quicken sit back and wait for it do download my recent transactions and then I categorize each item so I know how I’m spending $$$. It can then take that and create all sorts of great reports to analyze your spending?

I’m all about the instant feedback, but without the significant effort to do all the manual data entry and remembering receipts.

What if you loose a receipt? Do you reconcile this to your bank statement each month?

By: Jill

Jill — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:15:35 +0000

I personally find that budgeting and tracking spending by hand/in Excel is the best way – having to enter in the data myself makes me very aware of how I am spending my money, and gives me instant feedback.