Tag: Mint.com
Live on Less Than You Make and Win
As a twenty something who learned to “live on less than you make,” I know how tough it is to do. The good news is that once you learn to live on less than you make, it’s fairly easy to keep doing it. It’s a lifestyle habit and once it’s ingrained in you, it is [...]
How To Get Started with Mint.com
Today, we had a budget seminar at work where I found out that only 2 out of 40 people in our company used an online financial organization/budgeting software to manage their finances. One co-worker and I are both using Mint.com. Our seminar leader mentioned Mint.com as being one of the leading tools available to help [...]
What Does Your Spending Say About You?
This past Saturday, I withdrew $100 cash from an ATM. Today, two days later, I have $42 in my wallet and no record of where the other $58 went. After sitting down on Mint.com for 20 minutes, I finally figured out where it all went. That’s when these questions popped into my mind. “Why do [...]
My 5 Favorite Places on the Internet
Due to the nature of my career as well as my interest in learning about topics of interest to me, I spend a ton of time online. For those of you who perhaps don’t spend as much time online as I do or just haven’t found a lot of resources online in the topics that [...]
Three Steps to Giving Yourself a Big Raise in 2012
Today is the last day of 2011, which means I now have two full years of my spending recorded on Mint.com. For the first time in my life, I can compare two full years of my spending against each other, in detail. My Monthly Spending Chart Here’s a look at the chart of my spending, [...]
How to Organize Your Financial Life with Mint.com
How to Organize Your Financial Life with Mint.com Back in early 2010, my older sister me showed me how and her husband used Quicken to organize their finances. I was impressed by it and looked into Quicken when I got home. I found and started using its free online version, called Quicken Online, which soon [...]
