December 16th, 2009

Celebrate the New Year in style without busting your budget.
December 15th, 2009
Ho ho ho. Christmas is coming, and the goose is getting fat.
On today’s episode of The Personal Finance Hour, I’ll join Jim from Bargaineering to discuss the highs and lows of the holiday season. What are your favorite Christmas traditions? To whom do you give gifts? How do you set a shopping budget? Do you buy year-round — or ...
December 7th, 2009
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A lot of you will be looking to buy the important men in your life something special, but you don’t want to break the bank doing it. Gift giving is an important symbol of affection, but I don’t like when people go overboard without the means to do it. Unless you have a bunch of ...
December 6th, 2009
I recently received an email from Reader Donald asking if I could do a direct comparison between You Need A Budget (YNAB) and Quicken. Having recently used both to write a YNAB review and a Quicken 2010 review, I was familiar with both and could easily share my thoughts.
To add a little color to the discussion, which I hope you’ll ...
December 3rd, 2009
This post is from GRS staff writer April Dykman.
I haven’t tracked our expenses since June.
Not to appear completely incompetent, I do check our accounts on a regular basis to verify the charges and withdrawals. But I can’t tell you how much we spent on groceries in August or how much we spent on fuel in October without printing out some ...
November 27th, 2009
This is a guest post by Austin Frakt, a health economist and university professor. You can find more by Austin at The Incidental Economist, a blog about personal finance, economics, and health care, among other things.
Budgeting is the cornerstone of personal finance. You can’t make a rational financial decision without knowing the state of your cash flow. But if you’ve ...
November 25th, 2009
I’ve been getting a lot of stories of people struggling to get out of debt because of the recent How to Fight a Debt Collector series. They haven’t reached the point of fighting debt collectors yet and they want to keep it that way. As much as others like to malign those deep in debt, the vast majority of debtors ...
November 20th, 2009

PocketSmith is an online personal finance management tool with some unique features. It features a calendar that allows you to add events, multiple calendars, and forecasts how much cash you will have over the next year. Like other personal finance or budgeting sites, you upload transactions to the site from various accounts and are able to see all your transactions ...