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best free expenses tracking software?

piggeh
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Can anyone recommend some software to help track what I'm spending? I have tried one program recently (money manager ex IIRC) and wasnt very keen as it seemed a bit long winded. I just want to track things like how much I spend on food, books etc, so I can see where my money goes.

Thanks.
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  • Tixy
    Tixy Posts: 31,455 Forumite
    What about www.spendingdiary.com

    Or just using a spreadsheet with columns to categorise everything.
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  • jayss
    jayss Posts: 543 Forumite
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    I just use the spreadsheet on google docs.
  • piggeh
    piggeh Posts: 1,723 Forumite
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    ok, I'll whack a spreadsheet together if that's the case. Was just wondering if there was an easier way though.

    TY for the responses.
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  • planning_ahead_2
    planning_ahead_2 Posts: 449 Forumite
    C9Consulting wrote: »
    mint.com will keep up with a lot of your financial transactions. if they won't...money strands will probably do all transactions.

    Do you know I feel quite stupid now:o. I have seen other posts about people following their spending on Mint and I assumed that they were talking about a Mint credit card account.:o

    Off to investigate the mint.com website now.:D
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  • piggeh
    piggeh Posts: 1,723 Forumite
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    edited 27 January 2010 at 9:56PM
    I found a recommendation for Kublax which looks quite good, will give it a go

    edit: Kublax sucks, takes forever to load a page!
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  • grok
    grok Posts: 7 Forumite
    Aaargh - kublax still sucks

    Network - DNS Lookup Error
    The address www kublax co uk cannot be found.

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  • DarkConvict
    DarkConvict Posts: 6,347 Forumite
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    This popped up on the site recently - http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/banking/Budget-planning
    Although no trees were harmed during the creation of this post, a large number of electrons were greatly inconvenienced.

    There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies
  • gilligansyle
    gilligansyle Posts: 4,124 Forumite
    If you have excel or something already on your computer, there is usually a template for household expenses. Personally I use one from someone on the frugal living challenge, you put your budget in, and track everything spent and it lets you know if you are over budget.
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  • spider31
    spider31 Posts: 47 Forumite
    I use Money Strands, it downloads from all your bank accounts / credit card / savings and lets you track what you spend on what.

    It has some good reports to, you get a balance of flows report that shows you how you do each month.

    And... it has a IPHONE app so you can view all your accounts on your IPHONE.

    And... you can export to CSV so you could create your own reports in excel.

    I used to use MS MONEY but when nationwide dropped support for background banking I stopped using it.

    Check it out at

    https://money.strands.com/moneystrands/home.action

    PS

    I don’t work for them, but I really am truly impressed.
  • property.advert
    property.advert Posts: 4,086 Forumite
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    Excel or the MS Works equivalent if you don't have MS Office. Google is crap.
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