Comments on: Budget minded- online banking

By: Thrifty Karen

Thrifty Karen — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:09:17 +0000

I was going to use MS Money, but it said something about downloading things to my computer and all that mumbo jumbo. I’m concerned about them having access to my statements. Is anyone else concerned about this? I’ve been wanting to get this started for the past 2 weeks because I think we could have a lot more money left over every month if we had a budget and knew where the money was going.

By: Kara

Kara — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:45:44 +0000

We used MS Money for awhile to see where our money was going and realized we were spending at least $150 a month on eating out! Yikes! It helped us so much to see exactly what we were spending on unnecessary things.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:02:37 +0000

We use Quicken for our personal finances and it helps greatly to be able to see what you spend “too much” on…we even have a booze and luxuries category, oh yes we do.

Any way, I love love to eat out but it does add up. I am trying to only eat out for lunch once a week. That way it’s more of a “treat.”