Personal Budgeting Allows Peace of Mind

September 4, 2009 by  

The time for New Year’s resolutions has rolled around again. I feel a bit compelled to focus on personal budgeting.  Are you surprised?  What I’d really like to do is get a handle on my finances and just really know where I stand. This will allow me to make the best decisions possible going forward.

So, if I want to focus on personal budgeting, do I need a personal finance program to do it?  I’m guessing this would help tremendously with getting organized and help me to avoid having to create a bunch of spreadsheets to record all my financial data.  It would also help with knowing what kind of numbers to be gathering and recording.

Is Quicken still the best personal finance program available?  I think I got a free “lite” edition when I got my computer.  I’ll have to check my programs.  Maybe that would be enough.  Another option is Quickbooks Pro.  I am aware of this just because an office supply store was giving away a free copy with a mail in rebate.  I considered getting one, but ended up too slow to the draw. Oh well.

I still have a shelf full of books about how to manage your money that I read quite awhile ago. I did a great job being organized and recording everything back then.  Wow, did I let that slide when other interests took over.  It was so boring! 

It’s clearly time to regain some balance in my financial life. The more I think about it, the more I relish the idea of getting a handle on my personal budgeting and money management, even if it is still incredibly dull.  Having a clear picture can add a positive peace of mind and I definitely welcome that.

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Comments

11 Responses to “Personal Budgeting Allows Peace of Mind”

  1. eckens paxson on April 10th, 2010 8:11 pm

    Microsoft plans to stop selling Microsoft Money, its venerable, but not market-leading personal finance program, CNET News has learned.

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    Microsoft is discontinuing its personal-finance program, Money, after ending updates and yanking the application out of retail stores last year. The program joins Encarta and Flight Simulator among famous, venerable Microsoft products whose lives are coming to an end.

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    try closing down a few programs that you are not using before you go on the net… that will give you more memory to play with…
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