Mint.com

Mint.com has helped us tremendously! Even though we have lived on a strict budget for quite awhile now Mint.com gives our budget a visual component that really helps keep me in-check.

[Thirteen]

ING apparently has a similar concept.
We are doing this and it is TOTALLY fascinating - DH is like "Wow... um, we have no money."
Somehow, if I say it, I'm mean, but if he reads it, it's okay.

[SoonerTexan]

Somehow, if I say it, I'm mean, but if he reads it, it's okay.

It's funny how that works, isn't it? Of course, I'm the one that says, "CRAP, we shouldn't go out to eat until I get paid again" and then ask him if he wants to go out the next day. It just adds a nice layer of guilt

[HouseofWool]

Okay - I just signed up for Mint.com and am kind of excited to see how it goes. I am wondering how it works if I have been trying to stick with the whole Dave Ramsey theory of using cash, so that when it is gone, it's gone...

Has anyone tried tracking cash transactions within Mint?

[poky]

Okay - I just signed up for Mint.com and am kind of excited to see how it goes. I am wondering how it works if I have been trying to stick with the whole Dave Ramsey theory of using cash, so that when it is gone, it's gone...

Has anyone tried tracking cash transactions within Mint?

I've done a little bit, but not much.

You can enter the ATM transacton (under "uncategorized" is a "cash and ATM" category), and then add transactions manually when you spend cash; if you make a manual transaction "cash", there's a checkbox option for "automatically deduct this from my last ATM withdrawl" - I haven't played around with it enough to see how well it works, but it seems like it'd be a good way to track cash stuff.

[SoonerTexan]

Hmm I love Mint but I have not tried tracking cash with it. We buy almost everything with cards donut is easier to track! If it works for you, do it, but I would think all the tracking would get old fast without the automated "help" Mint provides. After 6 months of tracking everything it finally has "learned" what most of our transactions are.

[JDAZ11]

This looks awesome (although will likely be seriously depressing at the moment!). thank you for posting!

[HeyMeganZ]

I'm also using an app called pageonce. I also use mint.com, but I have to say - I really do like this one. I haven't run into any security issues, I like that it gives me a snapshot of all of our accounts - cash, payments due, investments, credit card debt, etc. upon log in and also has all the features i'm used to mint offering. I still use mint, but heard great things about this from my techy friends and have been trying it in tandem to see what i like better.

[HouseofWool]

Something happened recently and almost all of my accounts stopped working recently. I decided to go back to the old school tracking method in Excel. I am so over it all.