Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Mint: Saving Me from Bankruptcy One Day at a Time

From the lovely folks who brought you TurboTax, we now have:

(See what I did there?)

You sign up, enter your bank account information (yeah, I know, but trust me on this one), and Mint tells you where all that money you made last month went, with spending categories, business names, and average amount spent over a given period.

It also keeps track of planned expenses and since it ties right into your accounts, you never have to update your depressingly static Excel Spreadsheet with "Spent ten dollars more on beer this month, crap."

It'll let you know when you're above or below budget, emails your warnings when you do something hinky, tells you how much you can save over the course of a month, year, etc. if you keep going this way, and provides handy little (advertisements) ways to save money.

I feel fiscally sound already.

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