An article in today’s Wall Street Journal mentioned that a Coca-Cola bottler and MasterCard International “plan to equip 1,000 vending machines in the Philadelphia area to accept credit and debit cards…”
Another interesting tid-bit: “The Coke machines will also take MasterCard’s PayPass cards, which enable a consumer to save or tap a card in front [...]

A little over a week ago, Sean, over at Uncommonwaytowealth interviewed me over the phone. It was pretty fun to chat with him, explain a few of the ins and outs of YNAB, and answer some of his readers’ specific questions. If you want to listen to the interview (about 45 minutes long), [...]

I’m extremely excited about this.
For the past, um, very long time I’ve been working on a plugin for YNAB (3.0 and later only) that lets you schedule common inflows, outflows, and budget items one time. You then just click a button once per month and those items are automatically entered into the Register and [...]

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I write an awful lot about making a dollar work, saving for a rainy day, simple ways to save money. etc. It’s pretty important. A pretty quick way to give yourself a raise is to cut out the fluff in your money (everyone’s fluff is different, mine is probably eating out as it [...]

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We’ll be in the market for our first home in the next year or so. For that reason, my mind has been on credit scores quite a bit lately. I don’t want to pay more than I have to for our mortgage (planning on a 15-year fixed, if you [...]

I found this nice add-in here and had to definitely pass it on to all YNAB users (well, anybody who wants a nice calendar feature in Excel). I just thought it would work really well for entering things in the Register.
6/10/06 Update: I modified the calendar.xla file just slightly. Now, if you choose [...]

Just wanted to let all the OpenOffice users know that a 3.0 version is now available. You’re need to contact me to be able to download a copy.
If you want to maintain your old data, the easiest way to handle the transition is to copy and paste values. You’ll need to put in [...]

Regarding personal finance: If there were one piece of advice, one word of wisdom, that trumps all other pieces and words, it would be this:
Personal finance is personal
It’s up to you!
Were you to go to the library and read all of the personal finance books available, you’d find quite a few conflicting opinions. [...]