About Me

A Evans

28 year old female, married, have a 4 year old boy

Suze Orman "Save Yourself Plan": $251

Savings challenge:
$137

401K:
$643

Pension:
$8,000

Debt listed out:
Capital One Auto: 8% $9611
ACS: 13% $42,065
Chase Stud. Loan: 9% 6,502

Short term goals:
1)credit cards, personal loans paid off by July of 2008 (done!)
2)car paid off by January 2009
3) investigate teacher loan forgiveness program to possibly cancel federal student loans
4) put coupon savings into savings challenge account
5)complete Suze Orman's "save yourself" plan and invest in a mutual fund in March 2009

Long term goals:
1)pay off student loans within 3 years

I've got a looooonnnnnnggggg haul ahead.

Microsoft Money

February 24th, 2008 at 02:24 pm

I usually keep track of our budget via excel, however, I downloaded Microsoft Money. So far, I feel like it's a lot of bells and whistles for nothing, but I'll give it a bit of time (I've got 60 days for my trial, ya know?) Any reviews out there? Mint.com isn't going to work with my bank information (it was free and I liked it's format--makes me sad). Let me know what you think, gurus of money management Smile

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billm950 Says:
February 24th, 2008 at 03:17 pm

I been using MS Money since 99 and I have gotten so used to it tracking everything that I really can't rely on anything else. The only thing I don't like about is the reporting. Not very good reports to compare data So what i do is a transfer everything into Excel at the end of the month. Another down from Money is alot of stuff has to be inputed manually which i gotten used to it but its still a hassle. I hope MS moves into a mint.com format where it suggests most of the categories based on user inputs etc...

I use MS Money 2007 Deluxe + Excel for my reports..
Mulyanto Says:
February 24th, 2008 at 08:33 pm

I can't live without MS money!
Carolina Bound Says:
February 25th, 2008 at 06:52 am

I have used Excel for many years. When I tried to use Microsoft Money several years ago, I found it annoying since I had already fine-tuned my own spreadsheets to do what I wanted. I decided I'm happy with my spreadsheets and I'll stick with them.

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Microsoft Money

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