| Do you struggle with a family budget worksheet? Is it | | | | an entire community. Experts call this collective |
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| every new budgeting program available. If you are | | | | wanting a better financial life." In doing some research I |
| reading this article, it means you are at least one of the | | | | have found most users feel like their user interface is |
| proactive ones who is looking for a good solution. Let | | | | not as friendly as Mint's. Still a good tool. |
| me suggest 5 good, free sources for budgeting. | | | | 3. Quicken One of the more popular personal finance |
| 1. The guys at Intuit are at it again and have created a | | | | tools, Quicken has recently become a free online tool |
| wonderful tool for helping individuals and families track | | | | to compete with the other free applications online. |
| their finances. Their unique and highly secure site | | | | Quicken has been around for a while and has many |
| enables you to keep track of your spending, set up | | | | useful applications. |
| budgets, shows you how you measure up to your | | | | 4. Not as well known, but very good online application |
| budget, gives you suggestions, and has the ability to | | | | to help you with your budgeting needs and it does so |
| set up alarms for you on your financial accounts on | | | | much more. |
| any suspicious activity. This is a very user friendly site | | | | 5. Geezeo To finish off the list, Geezeo is another |
| and works very well for budgeting. | | | | new online tool that is free, like all of these suggestions. |
| 2. Wesabe Another good tool to look into is called | | | | If you find it difficult to fill out worksheets every month, |
| Wesabe. This is another online application that does a | | | | or have a hard time finding a good routine to stay on |
| lot of what does, but they have added a community | | | | top of your finances, I recommend you check out |
| touch to it. They say that they "believe that one | | | | these sites and find the one that will work for you. You |
| person's good financial decision can be leveraged to | | | | can take control! |