8 October 2007
Mint.com and guilt
Posted by Charley under: Tech and design .
Over the past four of weeks I’ve been frequently visiting Mint.com. Although it took them the first two weeks to support my Frontier Airlines MasterCard, I feel they had me up and running fairly quickly considering they are hottest thing since Jose Canseco.
Mint.com allows everyday folk to connect to their personal banks, pull down their transaction information and see ways to save money. It also shows spending statistics just like Dad’s old Quicken 95. With over 3000 banks available for the pulling, Mint.com has already reported on over two billion dollars to 50,000 plus users.
It’s a good site. It looks great and the information is useful. Thanks to Mint I found out that I could be making (saving?) hundreds more in interest if I rolled my good ol’ savings account over to eTrade. Done. I’ve also found that I’m eating lunch out a lot less after staring at those web 2.0 pie graphs each morning. Man I spend a lot on lunch.
I wish Mint.com would send me an SMS when I hit a specified dollar amount for a certain category (such as restaurants) in a given month. They have something very close to this, but I want even more control.
UPDATE: I’m using Mint.com less and less. A bit time consuming to manually categorize each transaction.
3 Comments so far...
Kath Says:
10 October 2007 at 4:45 am.
Thanks for the tip. Nice meeting you Saturday night. Go Rockies!
katie Says:
10 October 2007 at 8:31 pm.
cool! I’m going to try it out. I agree about lunch- now you can use your fun salad kit more often!
matt hessler Says:
7 January 2008 at 10:03 pm.
I like the Blog and have had the exact same experience re-doing my finanaces, eating out all the time is damn expensive!