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Re:How I took control of my personal finances. Simplicity in... by joshstrange on Friday January 08, 2016 @11:14AM (#10865888)
This is a huge, typo-filled Ad...

If you want a good budgeting tool look no further than YNAB [0] it's done wonders for me in tracking where my money is going how much I am spending in various categories as well as a good birds eye view of my finances (which even mint couldn't do well)

[0] http://www.youneedabudget.com/ (Though I suggest you use http://classic.youneedabudget.com/ as the web version just isn't there yet IMHO)

Re:How I took control of my personal finances. Simplicity in... by koshyk on Friday January 08, 2016 @11:17AM (#10865905)
I tried to proof read everything, but if you found any typos, I'd be delighted if you could point them out!
Re:How I took control of my personal finances. Simplicity in... by agarden on Friday January 08, 2016 @12:24PM (#10866507)
"I was terrible wit keeping track of"

"healthier homemade meal (if planned)" (missing period at end of sentence)

"how much do you spend on" should be "how much you spend"

"when I’m not drinking (at all) alcohol my performance" should be "when I’m not drinking alcohol (at all) my performance" or "at all" could be changed to "any"

"do I waste on eg having drinks" should be "do I waste on, e.g., having drinks"

"and buy a bread" should be "and buy a loaf of bread"

"which I was eating while on the run. Turns out I’ve spent a lot of money on them" should be use a semicolon, like so: "while on the run; turns out..."

"In a blink f an eye" - of

"on the final straight" - final stretch

"on one category, It’ll point this" - "it'll" should not be capitalized

"you spend to much on for example entertainment, tighten" should be "too much on, for example, entertainment..."

"not rocket since" - rocket science

I really like your fundamental idea of choosing just a few simple categories you care about. Good tip.

Re:How I took control of my personal finances. Simplicity in... by morgosmaci on Friday January 08, 2016 @11:36AM (#10866080)
The ones that jumped out at me as I read:

"public communication tickets" "bot so healthy" "You probably realised taht you won’t be able to makea cut" (2 in one)

"I go o the grocery"

Re:How I took control of my personal finances. Simplicity in... by lawpoop on Friday January 08, 2016 @11:41AM (#10866131)
You could copy and paste it into a word editor. I just did that with MS Word and it highlighted several misspellings for me.

Also in FF, a textarea box will show misspellings.

Or do you not have English dictionaries installed on your PC? (It's hard for me to get in the habit of remembering the internet is world-wide :S )

Re:How I took control of my personal finances. Simplicity in... by koshyk on Friday January 08, 2016 @11:57AM (#10866277)
Done this. You'd be surprised how many misspellings it didn't catch.
Re:How I took control of my personal finances. Simplicity in... by theandrewbailey on Friday January 08, 2016 @11:40AM (#10866123)
I'm unfamiliar with "spendings". Does that mean something like "expenditures" or "money spent"?
Re:How I took control of my personal finances. Simplicity in... by koshyk on Friday January 08, 2016 @12:00PM (#10866313)
money spent
Re:How I took control of my personal finances. Simplicity in... by _droptable_ on Friday January 08, 2016 @11:41AM (#10866133)
"...not a rocket since but..." -> "...not rocket science but..."?
Re:How I took control of my personal finances. Simplicity in... by stephaniepier on Friday January 08, 2016 @11:35AM (#10866070)
ovecomplicated

morgage

aditional

marathone

"You probably realised taht you won’t be able to makea cut"

tabacco (in the app image)

naturaly

Thats

Re:How I took control of my personal finances. Simplicity in... by koshyk on Friday January 08, 2016 @12:00PM (#10866305)
thanks a lot! already corrected.