{"id":196,"date":"2015-09-01T02:15:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T06:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paageetcie.com\/blog\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2020-04-04T23:26:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T03:26:13","slug":"five-ways-to-use-mint-to-organize-your-life-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paageetcie.com\/blog\/five-ways-to-use-mint-to-organize-your-life-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Ways to Use Mint to Organize Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you haven\u2019t heard of Mint.com<\/a>, you\u2019re definitely missing out. As one of the premier online financial management programs there is, it\u2019s simple to use and comprehensive for anyone to use well<\/em>. It is absolutely one of \u201cour favorite tools\u201d. But what does it do exactly?<\/p>\n

Answering that question will get to the heart of why you arrived at this article in the first place: to organize your life and finally – finally! <\/em>– feel like you\u2019ve got your financial house in order. If you want to get rid of that sinking feeling, worrying about money, then it\u2019s time for you to get organized. And we just happen to be well-acquainted with a popular tool that can help you reach that goal. Without further ado, here are five ways you should use Mint<\/a> to organize your life.<\/p>\n

1. <\/strong>Setting budgets<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong> Mint.com<\/a> allows you to set budgets on just about anything. This isn\u2019t a particularly groundbreaking piece of software, of course. People have been setting budgets since the invention of pen and paper. But there\u2019s more to the story. Since Mint.com<\/a> can align with your financial accounts and track all of your transactions (think credit card bills and debit statements), you can automatically track your purchases and let Mint.com<\/a> do the budgeting for<\/em> you. You can even set Mint.com<\/a> to e-mail you once you\u2019ve gone past a monthly budget. What\u2019s more, you can have a budget roll over to the next month as a reward for under spending. If this isn\u2019t enough for you to sign up to Mint.com<\/a>, we don\u2019t know what is.<\/p>\n

2. <\/strong>Tracking spending<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong> Nothing quite inspires the inner bargain hunter like seeing how your actual spending behaviors are playing out in the real world. Seeing your spending tracked can help you identify the changes you need to make and where you can afford to spend less. Mint.com<\/a> can handle this virtually automatically and seamlessly if you use it to track all your financial accounts.<\/p>\n

3. <\/strong>Estimating your net worth<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong> Ever feel like you\u2019re so rich that you can afford to be lazy? Think again. Take a look at your net worth – calculated by Mint.com<\/a> – and you\u2019ll see exactly where you stand. This means understanding what debt does to your overall financial situation.<\/p>\n

4. <\/strong>Setting savings goals.<\/strong><\/a> You won\u2019t get very far in any financial endeavor if you can\u2019t do something as simple as saving your money. This means that you will want to take advantage of Mint.com\u2019s<\/a> saving\u2019s goals features in order to keep yourself organized and free from frivolous spending.<\/p>\n

5. <\/strong>Reminding yourself how to manage your finances<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong> Sometimes we have to be rescued from ourselves. It happens to the best of us. Mint.com<\/a> can send you e-mail reminders that track your spending and tell you when you\u2019ve spent too much money on shopping for the month. Mint.com<\/a> also alert you to; low balance in your checking account, low available credit, fees and finance charged to your accounts by your bank or investment firms and with Identity theft being one of the world\u2019s fastest growing crimes, you will appreciate mint alert feature to notify you of large or unusual transactions.<\/p>\n

Mint.com<\/a> is owned by Intuit, Inc.<\/a> the makers of QuickBooks<\/a>, Quicken,<\/a> and TurboTax<\/a> just to name a few. What\u2019s more, it\u2019s free! Test-drive Mint<\/a> today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you haven\u2019t heard of Mint.com, you\u2019re definitely missing out. As one of the premier online financial management programs there is, it\u2019s simple to use and comprehensive for anyone to use well. It is absolutely one of \u201cour favorite tools\u201d. But what does it do exactly? Answering that question will get to the heart of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,51,6,9,52,54],"tags":[124,47,41,45,125,121,48,46,122,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paageetcie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paageetcie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paageetcie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paageetcie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paageetcie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.paageetcie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1451,"href":"http:\/\/www.paageetcie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/1451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paageetcie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paageetcie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paageetcie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paageetcie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}