Great Website
I just wanted to share a website that I am LOVING right now. It's www.mint.com and it's wonderful for all financial stuff! It's totally legit-I read about it in parents mag and it has all of the same protection that your on-line banking websites have. You can upload all of your accounts there and keep track of everything in one place. For example, if you have a checking account, savings account, car payment, student loans, mortgage, credit cards, etc you upload them all and it updates them everytime you log on. So, instead of having to individually log on to all of them seperatly, you can see your balances and information on them in one place. You can also put in the amounts of cars or any other big purchases that you have paid off and it will calculate your net worth everytime you log on. My absolute favorite thing is the budgeting. You can set different categories and it will automatically log things into the category that it thinks it should go into. (ex: Kroger always goes under groceries.) You can also move transactions into different categories or split up a transaction. (ex: if I buy dog food with my groceries, I can break the purchase down so part goes under pet food and part goes under groceries.) It tracks all of your budget categories by month and emails you if you go over in a category. And, it's all FREE! And, if you have a cc that you make purchases on everymonth (and probably pay off) it tracks those purchases with your debit card ones. So, you get an accurate indication of what you're spending even though you haven't made your cc payment yet. There are many, many great things about this site so if you are in need of something like this check it out.
One more thing, if you haven't done your taxes yet I recommend www.taxact.com. It is almost exactly the same as turbo tax which we usually buy for $50 plus fees. To do your federal return on taxact is free and our state only cost $13.95. We used it this year and I've already gotten our state return and confirmation that our federal one is coming!! Woo hoo!!
Posted in: on Monday, February 16, 2009 at at 9:47 AM
Thanks for the website hint. I will take a look at it because I need something like that. Logan's Valentine pics are adorable -- of course! We had a great time with your parents, Marty and Jill for Valentine's Dinner. It was nice to see everyone and catch up. Of course, Christopher and I were just giddy eating a fabulous adult meal and not having to eat quickly!! PS I loved hearing Logan stories from your Mom!! He is so cute.
THanks for the website, I am going to have to check it out and see of its easier than my current spreadsheet in excel. THat sucks that cokes were more expensive at our walgreens. We do seem to get the short end of the sales stick A LOT!
Thanks so much for the websites! I knew there was somewhere to do your taxes free and did it last year but could not remember what it was so that was a huge help~the other site sounds great too as we need something like this desperately!!!