Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Don't lose what you've won/ You've struggled for years but you've only begun/ Stay with me, try again

So, as a follow-up to my finance related post, I decided to get more intentional about budgeting and the like. And as a millennial, what other way would I do this than with an app?

I opened a Mint.com account. Sadly, that's about as far as I got. I tried to sync it with my checking and savings accounts, but it didn't work and I got bored and wandered off. But as a result, things have gotten rather... odd.

Mint.com helpfully alerts me each week that I am spending INSANE sums of money ($10K+) over the past seven day period (I assure you that I am not). I tend to run over my booze budget, which Mint.com decided should be set to $109 per week. I don't actually buy booze, so I'm confused by this.

One time Mint.com alerted me that there had been a "large" deposit made in my account. So I checked, but it was just my paycheck. Hah, Mint.com. I work at an NGO and live in a state (okay, I don't live in a state; I know that) with a very high income-tax rate. That was not large, Mint.com. Get it together.

I suppose I could try to fix things and set a budget and such, but that would entail remembering my password, so...

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