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You can apply the principles of the Getting Things Done book to all aspects of your Consumerist lifestyle, from following through on a resolution to draft a budget, to remembering to call customer service, to funding your IRA.
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NetworthIQ is a kinda neat online service where you enter all your assets and debits by category and it gives you an aggregate personal finance “IQ” number to track over time. [via Poorer Than You]
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The Richest Man In Babylon is an excellent personal finance primer told through a series of easy-to-understand parables.
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The key to escaping living paycheck to paycheck is to not just spend less than you earn, but to save it as well.
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6 ways to set your budget on auto-pilot and not have to worry about it.
Get Rich Slowly has a story about “Gillian,” a woman who came asking for advice on setting up a budget so she could save money and stop charging emergency expenses on her credit card, but was unwilling to actually cut her expenses. We found the story hilarious because it seemed so familiar…
iBank is a friendly-looking budgeting software program for Mac with a diverse set of robust features.
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6 regular people share their tricks for staying on within their spending limits.
If you’re trying to get your spending under control, try taking Bankrate’s 7-day budget challenge.
WSJ round up seven mind games people play that can have them short-changing their personal finances.
One of the first steps to take in getting a handle on your budget is to start tracking your spending, and for those who like to do it analog, moleskine small ruled notebooks ($10.50) are awesome.
Our tip box is organized by complaint category. In the “banks” section, email after email starts roughly the same way, “I overdrafted my account and then a series of horrible events ensued.”
Awhile back we linked to a discussion over at Zen Habits about the best budgeting software/web apps. Lo and behold, there is a follow up post that contains 6 free alternatives to Quicken and Money. And hey, good news! GNU Cash is now available for Windows.
The clip follows Jack as he learns to put aside frizzy peach delights and going to the movies all the time in order to save up for a camera.
Over at Zen Habits there is some excellent discussion going on about which financial tools the readers use. What do you guys use for your budgeting needs?
Tired of living paycheck to paycheck? Here’s some advice on getting your money situation together.
When we posted our scrappy guide to making your first budget, many readers chimed in with what personal finance software they enjoyed, many of them free. Here’s a roundup of the results:
Are you a budget novice? Constantly overdrafting? Never have enough money to buy what you really want? Wish you could get your shit together? We’ve got a sexy free Excel document to share with you.
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