Personal Accounting, 21st Century Style!
It's nice to know how much you've spent each month in real time. This helps keep your spending in check and is just a good way to keep track of finances. For the longest time I've been posting receipts and writing amounts on this dry erase / cork board. No more.
It frequently gets cluttered, is a hassle to tabulate at the end of the month and doesn't go into much detail about expenses.
I'vebeen using it for a few weeks now, and it's amazing! The whole system consists of a piece of software and this small scanner which fits neatly on my desk....it's about the size of a TV remote control:
You can I can see in real time how much I've spent for bills, investments, fun etc. in real time without having to input each purchase in an Excel sheet.
I'm sure for most people an Excel chart would be fine, but anyone with a considerable amount of purchases per month would benefit from this little system. This is personal finance for the 21st century!
It frequently gets cluttered, is a hassle to tabulate at the end of the month and doesn't go into much detail about expenses.
I'vebeen using it for a few weeks now, and it's amazing! The whole system consists of a piece of software and this small scanner which fits neatly on my desk....it's about the size of a TV remote control:
You can I can see in real time how much I've spent for bills, investments, fun etc. in real time without having to input each purchase in an Excel sheet.
I'm sure for most people an Excel chart would be fine, but anyone with a considerable amount of purchases per month would benefit from this little system. This is personal finance for the 21st century!
Labels: Productivity
posted by Neville @ 1:03 AM
24 comments
24 Comments:
I'm guessing this thing cost a pretty-penny.
LOOPY
www.betathetapi.net
How is this like a phone?
I use my Credit Card for most purchases and then I download a MS Money File from my CC website... I use MS Money to organize my personal finances.
I might just have to swing by the site and check it out :) Thanks!
www.me2press.com/free
So i'll sit back and wait for the mac version. I hate keeping hard-copies of receipts. i hate snail mail in general too. if you can't email or text it to me i don't want it. clutter clutter clutter. yuck.
You can pay your bills via credit card, collect miles or something and then get an itemized statement of expenses at the end of the year. Or as has been suggested here use Quicken or similar software and download your bank and cr statements, broker records etc. Such software has an added benefit, it would teach you about accounting (something you need) and filling tax returns.
While almost anything is better than tracking expenses by scribling on a wall, you have a history of impulsive, expensive "gizmo" purchases. Seems to me you are not spending any time defining your needs and researching for a product that would meet your needs at a reasonable cost.
Penny wise and pound foolish once again.
Cheers,
Steven
I tried to charge as much as my expenses into a credit card as possible, not because I needed one. Simply because I will get a statement of how much I spend per month from my credit card company. Anything else paying by cash, back to the manual data entry.
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