I just found what I think is such a wonderful tool.  This new tool that I found is located at Mint.com.  This is probably one of the best budgeting tools that I have ever seen.  I first caught mention of this website when I was helping a friend finish his taxes.  Later, I rediscovered it when I was helping another friend to find an alternative to Microsoft Money, because Microsoft is no longer supporting this software.

Once I got online, I discovered that I with this tool, I can synchronize bank accounts, credit cards, loans, investments, and even add assets that I own.  This tool is completely free to use, and will synchronize nightly.  You can also go through after you have organized expenses, and create a budget.  This is a pretty neat tool, because I can tell how I am doing for the month for anything from groceries, to entertainment.  I have faith that this can help keep me on a better financial journey.

I am not a big fan of the Idaho Mistaken, I mean the Idaho Statesman.  It is our local newspaper.  They are terrible at reporting news.  Usually when there is breaking news, they always have to be the first ones to report it, so in the process, they leave things out or misreport info. 

Or they report on things that don’t really sound like news to me. 
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I am going to voice my opion about something.  Why does President-Elect Barack Obama have to stick his damn nose into everything.  I don’t remember where I was reading this, but I read somewhere that Obama wants to implement a College Football playoff system.  Everyone else wants to do this as well, but that is not my point.  My point is that there are so many other political things to worry about other than College Football.  Like the big one is the current economic situation.

Previously, I have posted a post about Quickbooks vs Microsoft Money.  However, as Mike mentioned in comments on this same post that when I said I would post that day, apparently that didn’t mean that day.  Well, I don’t really remember what I was going to post about.  So, I will just write a new post that is somewhat related.  Read more

I will post a blog later today…

It has been some time since I have last posted.  Actually, it has been some time since I have been in my regular schedule of blogging.

Today, I started my new job.  I don’t really even know my job title, but I am mainly the assistant to a bookkeeper for a local hotel.  I also do other things when needed, such as: helping with any kind of maintenance, checking customers in, and any other task that they may need me for.

This job is something that I have been searching for over the last 2 ½ months. It just about fell in my lap…
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I just bought a new car. Actually no I didn’t, but if this car was available in the United States, I would for sure purchase it. Not only as a way to save money, but as a way to get back at the gas companies who are really screwing over America. Mike was talking about changing some driving habits, so I wanted to talk about how I would try to improve mine.

The car is a little bit ugly, and kinda weird looking, but I would take it so that I could save money.

This is the same company who, a few months back, came out with a car that costs only $2,500.00 new (but it’s not available in the US or Canada. A non polluting vehicle that eliminates the reason to buy gasoline from off shore companies.
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The next time you hear a politician use the word ‘billion’ in a casual manner, think about whether you want the ‘politicians’ spending your tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of it’s releases. 

1. A billion seconds ago it was 1959. 
2. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive. 
3. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age. 
4. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet. 
5. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it. 

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If a bill that comes out of Congress in June ever passes and is signed into law, then a new federal bureaucracy would be formed to manage the complicated new tax called cap & trade.  This would be all to pacify the Global Warming pessimists here and abroad. And then to drastically raise taxes on gasoline. Can you say five to eight dollars a gallon? Does that sound like a plan to you?  I certainly don’t think so.

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