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Our Angel baby, lost at 6w6d on 6/10/08
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
What kind of money management/budget program do you use?
H handles all the finances right now. He has spreadsheets galore and has every last penny accounted for. Obviously a separation or divorce changes financial situations. I've heard mention of some programs that can be used and am wondering what are some of the programs you all use. I am thinking it was on this board as I don't go over to the MM board often.
I am a spender so I wanted to look into this now to kind of get an idea of what kind of budget I'll be looking at when single.
Our Angel baby, lost at 6w6d on 6/10/08
Re: What kind of money management/budget program do you use?
I create my own Excel spreadsheet. I also insert formulas so I don't have to add or subtract everytime and customize my own categories. I track what is coming in and what is coming out and have a summary for each month so I can see if I am staying on track or not.
I play personal games too such as trying to make my monthly bank statement end result to have a shorter list than the month before.
Mint.com is a good (free) way of budgeting your money.
I personally use a spreadsheet, but mine is simple. I have all of my bills organized by what day of the month they're due. Then, I put them under what payday they fall. This way, on payday (every other Friday), I sit down and pay all bills that are due in those two weeks and put money into savings. Whatever I have left over is what I have to live on for those 14 days. Simple as that.
Obviously this is for my day-to-day spending and nothing long-term that I'm budgeting for.
Yes, that is it! Mint.com. I will check it out and see what I come up with.
Thanks!
Thanks for posting about this.
I just updated my budgets and transactions in Mint.com and remembered to check my Verizon usage online. I found out that I'm using 92 out of the 900 minutes I'm paying for on Verizon because all of my friends and family are Verizon. I just dropped down to a cheaper plan and saved myself $20/month. Without mentioning Mint.com I would have totally forgotten to do this--thanks!