Archive for July, 2008

Mint - Free Resource to Track Your Spending

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Mint is a free online financial management application that lets you track your different financial accounts such as checking, savings, credit card, mortgage and investment accounts.
Mint allows you to see your current financial snapshot, your “net worth” at a glance. Mint automatically categorizes purchases, and remembers your changes. If you re-categorize a particular store, it [...]

A Case for an Emergency Fund

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

It was a sunny Fourth of July, and we loaded up to head to the lake. Me, my wife, and our two kids got in my wife’s car and she started to back out of the garage. I noticed my truck in the rear view mirror, and as it got closer and closer I called [...]