Archive for the Category Budgeting

 
 

Three Free Financial-Planning Tools

These new interactive Web sites give you advice — some better than others — to help you reach goals.

From Kiplinger.com:

Online financial-planning tools are getting more personal. Plenty of Web sites crank out cookie-cutter plans, but three recent entrants give users more detailed advice. Voyant, SimpliFi and ESPlannerBasic provide something more than a quick-and-dirty look at your financial state of affairs — for free.

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Learning to Be an Un-Consumer

John Perry, 44, a marketing manager, co-founded The Compact, a group that avoids unnecessary consumption. Two years later, it has more than 8,000 followers.

From Kiplinger’s Personal Finance:

Question: How did The Compact begin? Perry: Over dinner, nine friends and I decided to go an entire year without buying anything new besides food, medicine and hygiene products. If we needed anything else, we would borrow it or buy it secondhand.

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Budgets Made Simple

This free site tracks your expenses and taps the insights of other users.

From Kiplinger’s Personal Finance:

When tracking your spending, simplicity has its virtues. Software, such as Quicken and Microsoft Money, can gum up the works with unnecessary charts and forecasting tools. Now several free Web sites offer an easy way to keep tabs in one place on all your expenses. Wesabe is our favorite.

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