How do you entertain yourself? Maybe you subscribe to magazines, cable TV, buy video games?
It costs a lot of money and in the end these are all disposable things with no true value attached. There is a different way of life, one which costs less but gives you more.
1. Join the local library and borrow [...]
There is one easy thing that you can do to prevent overspending and keep your inner peace and that is using cash instead of credit cards. Once upon a time when there were no credit cards people spent only what they had and when the cash ran out they were left without any money. Credit [...]
For parents and for those that wish to become parents in the future…
When a child is born it is completely helpless and in need of your complete and utter help and care. When we think of our children’s needs we can all think of: food, shelter, education, health care, love… Unfortunately, only one [...]
Summer was wonderful and even though you knew that it would be a good idea to start saving some money, you just couldn’t deny yourself this precious holiday. You spent a lot more money than you can afford and now you’re back home in your old ways. If you haven’t started already, it would be [...]
Grisbi is simple, easily learned and intuitive to use. At the same time, features are countless and you can easily create a budget or schedule future events relating to your finances. Default currency is EUR but it can be easily change and if you provide exchange rate it can adjust currency automatically. Multiple accounts and [...]
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If you used Quicken before, but don’t want to pay for it anymore you can try GnuCash as a free alternative. GnuCash is of all free software available the one that has most similarities to Quicken (the most widely spread and used personal finance software, albeit not a free one).
GnuCash supports scheduling recurring transactions, it [...]
This freeware personal finance manager is ideal for tracking down your personal expenses and budgeting. This program also has a paid version, but this freeware version is the same except for possibility of multiple accounts management which is available only in paid version. With this software you can create your own reports according to categories [...]
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