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A comment on Ask HN: How do you keep track of your personal expenses?.

Re:Ask HN: How do you keep track of your personal expenses? by chrisrickard on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @05:14AM (#9419259)
I whole-heartidly recommend YNAB (You Need Another Budget). http://www.youneedabudget.com

You have to enter all your income/expenses in manual, but that's part of it's value - it really makes you accountable for what you spend.

Since tracking all expenses for maybe 5 months, I have probably saved thousands of dollars simply by making cheaper choices and being mindful of excess.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you keep track of your personal expenses? by bengali3 on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @09:23AM (#9420160)
whole-heartildy agreed. very different way of thinking compared to the post-mortem options like Mint. See http://www.youneedabudget.com/method

bonus: here's Jesse Mecham's MicroConf 2014 talk http://www.microconf.com/videos-2014.html

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