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I would also look into Quicken. You can link all of your accounts and track expenses. You can also link Quicken to Turbo Tax when you are getting ready to do your taxes which may help you find ways to save as well.

Good Luck!

Try mint.com

This site links all of your accounts together to give a high-level picture of all your accounts (be they auto loan, credit card, mortgage, savings, checking, investing… everything). It also has a very spiffy budgeting tool.

Great posts, you’re blog is awesome. I find you’re no non-sense approach to be great.

Being a recent college graduate, I think my first order of business is getting my budget together.

I have been tracking my expenses in Excel for the past 3 months, but this is extremely tedious. I have tried some free online personal finance applications, but these seem to be lacking in the features department.

I am currently thinking about purchasing Microsoft Money or Quicken, which do you think is a better deal? Someone warned me that the Microsoft program is not good for all things tax related.

many thanks