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Web service fave of mine Mint.com just released a pretty nifty update this morning in the form of Goals – although there is a curious lack of that news on the update blog at mint.com. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a huge fan of Mint – I would go so far as to say that I’ve never really gotten more control over my finances until I surrendered them to a service like Mint, which tracks our finances automagically and cleanly. I definitely know I’ve gained more ground on expenses and trimming the fat over the last year as a direct result. Well, Mint.com just quietly gave me one more, very important dashboard item to help get more enjoyable control of where our money’s going: Goals.

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…or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Overview.

I’ll freely admit that I suck with money: I spend it if I’ve got it, I can’t keep track of it very well, and budgeting is… well… one of those things I’ve never learned. For the last 10 years or so I’ve been an avid Quicken user, using it much like a high-powered check register: I’d enter every single transaction, and as those cleared the bank I would reconcile them in Quicken. With the advent and proliferation of debit cards and my preference to use cash less and less, the amount of transactions I was entering and reconciling was in the thousands per year. That’s a lot of work, and for very little gain it turns out. continue reading…