Question about tracking savings

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Originally Posted by vsjhoc

Please, I beg of you, go blow $5 tonight on something, anything, and record it as "miscellaneous."

I don't have that category. It's... too... vague.

Are you tracking your 3 FICO scores up to the minute as well?

Haha. No, I'm not that bad.

Although, that doesn't sound like a bad idea....

(Kidding!)

[lrjohnson]

I have tracked everything since 4/98 in Quicken. I'm so used to it now. I had 10201.72 in expenses, and 10,308.83 income, in 1999!

I love having this information. I have very few monthly bills: four. I live simply. Not a whole lot of entries to make. I wouldn't have been brave enough to tackly my Minimum Wage Challenge without having my expenses at my fingertips.

It's a completely integrated part of my life. Not the Quikcen; it's just what I have. But the idea of tracking my spending.