This week: Using paper for finance tracking has been invaluable for helping me understand the process, shaping my Markdown budget trackers into a text-based, hands-on envelope budgeting approach. Simple calculations mean I can take charge of my incomings and outgoings without a standard spreadsheet.
This project is actually a byproduct of another big thing I'm working on.
Currently, I use YNAB for budgeting, but I've been putting sustained effort into getting my data out of the cloud and self-hosting everything.
I started researching options for budgeting software, and I really couldn't find anything I liked or that felt like it had enough features.
I decided, then, to just whip up something in Excel... which led me to the discovery of Office.js and the ability to build Add-ins for Excel using web tech.
Thus, vue-excel was born.
I may eventually release my budgeting tool for Excel, when it's feeling a little more mature and stable. Stay tuned... ❤️
@ctietze if you're on an Apple ecosystem, I recommend https://debitandcredit.app. We've been using it at home for some years and it's a well-built app!
AA renewal was 50% up on last year. 7 minute call being super friendly, got that reduced to 9% by asking "What's the best deal you can do me today for the same package?"
That's literally paid for my shopping this morning.
Never auto renew, these bastards will have you. #ukfinance#budgeting#costofliving
Time Timers, in the digital age, has to be one of the largest and most useless money drains for schools, already equipped with projectors and computers?
Update: #Mint is being shut down and users are being shunted over to Credit Karma, which is not budgeting software and has almost zero functionality for that purpose. I am now trying #Simplifi from Quicken, which is so far pretty good. It does cost money ($28 per year with discount). More importantly it does not yet have the feature to exclude part of a split transaction from your budget, which was one of my most-used Mint features. #budgeting#personalfinance
@shippychaos they are apparently only telling people when you log into the site, and even then only intermittently. There was a Times article on it and yet no direct announcement from the company itself.
@rick yeah, that makes sense eh. We're only on my husband's income because I'm homeschooling our special needs kid, we just bought a house and we're trying to be budget conscious, is all. And kid has been doing stuff like trying to pour out and eat all the maple syrup, ketchup etc, and saying "Let's buy more!" so we mainly want to impress responsible spending so far lol
@seawall
Let him participate in your own budgeting. Try to make spreadsheets fun, if possible. Add things that he wants, and make him a budget that he has to balance - nothing big, of course, for now. Priorities and understanding of money rolled into one.