Make me a Mint!

I have been working on my debt for awhile now. I have used many tools, spreadsheets, Microsoft Money, Quicken, and even a DOS based toll long ago. At one point I sent all my bills and money to a group in North Carolina, and they gave me a stipend! Early outsourcing! All to try to figure out where my money is going and how to it keeps leaving so quick!

Money works well, but not all my banks want to work with it, and it always had more bells and whistles then I really needed. Same with the one time I tried Quicken.

I have and still use Excel, I have built many a budget in it, It's just more controllable! It's good to see where the money plans to go, but after I spend off budget it can't show me.

So I found Mint. You attach your account info to the site (don't worry it's safe) and it downloads transactions into your Mint account, and in seconds you can see where your money is going. Budgets, based on past usage averages, and pie charts for where your money went.

Me, thankfully I am under budget on most categories, except Entertainment. One Beer Fest and I am over!!

Anyway check it out!

http://www.mint.com/index.html