Comments on: Mint.com Review: A Convenient Timesaver

By: Stacy

Stacy — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:34:54 +0000

While reviewing some online money management software websites,i came across manageme7.com and found the features to be very useful to handle our day to day financial transactions.

By: American Express

American Express — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:17:31 +0000

I like the idea that I do not need to manually calculate my spending and that I can track my finances anytime for free! I think I will have to see it for myself. I also read about your friends blog about the Starbucks habit and the white lies we tell ourselves When we overspend. Thank you for this wonderful post. More Power!

By: BecomingBest

BecomingBest — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:49:00 +0000

Tried Mint but didn’t work well- I experienced troubles importing some of my accounts (an issue encoutered by several users apparently)but I moved on to YODLEE (I blogged about it ealrier today) and so far I love it! Just what I needed- Signed on 2 days ago after reading a lot about it.

By: Bad Credit

Bad Credit — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:23:00 +0000

Don’t know about you but I still have a hard time parting with my credit card number to online vendors. What more to say laying out your whole financial history and numbers for one company to use.

I think its still a very risky thing to do even at this time. At any time a hacker and just steal your identity if he or she is able to crack the codes.

By: Pat E. Cake

Pat E. Cake — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:50:00 +0000

The hardest thing about budgeting to me is dealing with non-fixed costs. I know what my car payment is, mortgage, food etc. If they vary, it's never by much.

But my phone bills are crazy and tough to budget. I have a friend who's trying to talk me into getting a prepaid cellphone. I thought they were kind of funky or just for drug dealers (LOL!) but I saw a display at Target and they looked pretty good. You couldn't even tell the difference from regular phones. Plus I like the idea of paying in advance which is the way I like to budget whenever I can.

Anybody have any experience with these things?

I have it narrowed down between Trackfone and Net10 because they seem to have the phones with the things I need. Any thoughts?

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By: DD

DD — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:37:00 +0000

I spent about the same amount of time setting up my account on Mint and I was thoroughly annoyed by the end of it. I’m not a fan. It’s a great concept and has the potential to be quite a valuable tool – but they need to streamline it some more.

By: savings

savings — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:46:00 +0000

i’ve been reading your blog for a few months now – hi!

Anyway, i absolutely adore mint.com. It’s so easy to use, and was such an eye opener for me when I first started (I spent HOW much on food?). It’s great way to keep tabs on all my accounts (of which I have many) in one spot. I love it!

By: Amaranta

Amaranta — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:37:00 +0000

similar to HRH, that feature annoys me. I’ve had issues with being able to refresh/add accounts also. I use yodlee through my bank for 3ish years now so I’m used to that. Also, for instance I buy $200 from jcrew, categorize it as shopping. If I return $200, it doesn’t negate/apply that return to the shopping amount, instead categorizing the return as a ‘credit card payment.’ So I end up with these high shopping amounts when in reality I really bought a lower amount and ended up returning some of it. (does that make sense?) So my pie graphs/etc. are always wrong.

I like the comparison feature for other cities, though.

By: Her Royal Highness

Her Royal Highness — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:27:00 +0000

I tried Mint, but the problem was that I’ve been using the same bank account for literal years… it downloaded EVERYTHING and then expected me to tag and file the expenses…

…for three years’ worth of expenses…

Um. How about an H to the E-L-L no. So I went back to Mvelopes.