Madison MoneySports - Personal Finance Thread

[Sijray21]

I was tracking my spending for a long time utilizing a spreadsheet, but recently just downloaded the app "Every Dollar". I'm curious to see if that will be a better system for me. You're headed in the right direction figuring out where your money is going. This will help you long term to reduce your spending.

I went sober for the month of April knowing that I was spending like $200/month on booze and wanted to challenge myself both from the financial POV and wellness POV. Having wrapped up that challenge I'm definitely going to dramatically reduce my alcohol consumption and maintain a more mindful approach to drinking. I got to save more money and not feel like ass.

i tried the "Every Dollar" app, but i didn't like it too much. I use Mint and i enjoy that app (although it requires you linking your accounts - some people don't like that idea). It's super easy to adjust vendor names and assign transactions to certain custom categories. The real-time data is really nice to have when you have accounts spread across everywhere, especially for a free app.