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MINT.COM IS AWESOME!!

timmis1127 — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:34:20 GMT

So I was browsing around the forum and saw people use mint.com to keep track of their finances so I decided to give it a try and started playing around with it and it is awesome!! While browsing through my finances I realized in the month of November I spent $517.00 on restaurants needless to say I was appalled. Then I looked on December and I have spent $301 on restaurants and I was still appalled. Really made me sit back and realize that I should take my lunch to work and stop eating out so much on weekends!!

Thank you for everyone who suggested using the website its a real eye opener and I recommend it to everyone!!

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lithium78 — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:37:17 GMT

I'm curious about trying mint.com. Anybody know how safe it is? I feel a little nervous giving them access to all my accounts.

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timmis1127 — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:39:41 GMT

@lithium78 wrote:
I'm curious about trying mint.com. Anybody know how safe it is? I feel a little nervous giving them access to all my accounts.

I think it is safe, I think it is an intuit website (i could be wrong) which is the maker of Quickbooks

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mtrsprt — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:40:14 GMT

$820.00 in two months for eating out? Your out of your mind. I spend that for feeding my son and I every 4-5 months.....

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ArisGreek — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:40:41 GMT

A lot of people I know use it, but I just dont' feel comfortable having that thing pry at my personal information. I get very resistant to things like that. It's also why I don't do those Google wallet things. I feel like that's TOO MUCH information that could get comprised in one place.

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CS800 — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:40:55 GMT

I looked at MINT last night and I'm also nervous about allowing access to my accounts. So like the previous post said, how safe is it? I know mint says 128 bla bla.

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timmis1127 — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:43:28 GMT

@mtrsprt wrote:
$820.00 in two months for eating out? Your out of your mind. I spend that for feeding my son and I every 4-5 months.....

I was out of my mind eating out for lunch everyday gets expensive!!

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mtrsprt — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:45:49 GMT

$517.00....24 days...(took out a few weekends).. An avg of $21.00/day.... Are you having lobster and/or Prime rib daily????/

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2NE1 — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:46:35 GMT

@timmis1127 wrote:
@mtrsprt wrote:
$820.00 in two months for eating out? Your out of your mind. I spend that for feeding my son and I every 4-5 months.....
I was out of my mind eating out for lunch everyday gets expensive!!

haha, yeah it sure adds up! reason why I always bring lunch to work! I love Mint.com! been using it since Feb' of this year and have had no problems with my info getting stolen nor hackers trying to log-in, etc.

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timmis1127 — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:50:51 GMT

@mtrsprt wrote:
$517.00....24 days...(took out a few weekends).. An avg of $21.00/day.... Are you having lobster and/or Prime rib daily????/

haha my fellow colleagues like to eat well during lunch.

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mtrsprt — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:51:48 GMT

On your tab? lol

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timmis1127 — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:56:08 GMT

@mtrsprt wrote:
On your tab? lol

Some of that too is eating out during the weekends, my wife and I like to try out new restaurants every Saturday night so I am thinking those have to be cut!

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mtrsprt — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:59:27 GMT

I would yep. You would have much more money to your name, or gaining interest in a retirement type fund. How about doing the new restaurant thing once every few months?

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timmis1127 — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:03:43 GMT

Yeah that is what we'll have to do. But for sure take my lunch to work because when I was looking at te details of each transaction most of them were work and $8 here and $12 there adds up really quick!!

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mtrsprt — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:08:12 GMT

@timmis1127 wrote:
Yeah that is what we'll have to do. But for sure take my lunch to work because when I was looking at te details of each transaction most of them were work and $8 here and $12 there adds up really quick!!

and the interest........

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Anonymous — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:32:08 GMT

Mint.com seems pretty secure to me. I use it and I've read a few reviews on it as well. It's safe.

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Anonymous — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:43:58 GMT

I've been a member of Mint for nearly 2 years now. In that 2 years, I've never been notified by Mint of any breach of their security. In the same time, I've hadMULTIPLE from Bank of America, resulting in new debit cards and what not. You also never provide Mint with any real sensitive info, such as your SS#, birthdate, or address. You limit which banks you give them access too. If the banks didn't think Mint was safe, they wouldn't allow Mint to aggregate the information.

Mint is now owned by Intuit, same makers of Quicken. They are well reviewed by many top places. I feel comfortable.

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sdoonan — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:48:22 GMT

@lithium78 wrote:
I'm curious about trying mint.com. Anybody know how safe it is? I feel a little nervous giving them access to all my accounts.

It's read-only access. They can't actually make any changes to your accounts.

I use it too, but sometimes the pending transactions don't always work like they're supposed to. And if you have to change cards while you use Mint, it double-counts them.

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castlefox — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:48:34 GMT

Mint seems rather secure to me. I am not a super computer genius but if someone were to get my log in password and user name for mint.com they would only be able to see how broke I am since you can not transfer and money or get user names or passwords for accounts you have set up through mint.

I personally love loggin into mint and seeing my net worth get larger over time. I hated flipping between my various loggins to see how I am doing from month to month and trying to see how I am doing on a savings goal was a pain. Seeing that net worth line keeps me on the strait and narrow when I even think about spending money.

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jefftca925 — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:55:41 GMT

I've been using Mint.com and Pageonce for a while. Both have their own benefits. I like Mint's ability to analyze one's net worth and where your money goes each month. I do wish it was a little more customizable... I'd like to adjust my monthly budget so it appears more in line with what I spend each month. Pageonce does give me my available credit amounts which the other doesn't. They are both GREAT at providing alerts to let you know when you have a payment due or when something on one of your accounts has changed.