Author: jc7680jc7680
Date: Nov 19, 2006 09:47
I'm newly married and I'm thinking about starting to use Quicken to
help track my wife and my finances. We don't have anything too
complicated going - separate bank accounts, a few credit cards, basic
bills, a small brokerage/money market account. We are saving
aggressively and looking to buy a house in the new year, so I'm
thinking that Quicken may help track and forecast our monthly expenses
and savings. I'm just trying to figure out if it's worth it or not.
I use a spreadsheet right now to track what we spend and our typical
monthly bills, but having this all in one place and downloaded
automatically will be (I think) useful. I'm trying to get some
opinions on new or long-time users of quicken (or Microsoft Money, for
that matter) and see if it is truly useful, or just slightly more
convinient.
Any thoughts? Hoping I can get the skinny on Quicken, since the
quicken website sugarcoats everything.
Also, do users feel it's secure? Will I be paranoid about someone
hacking into my wireless network and seeing all of my account numbers,
balances, etc? Or if I lose my laptop and someone has all of my
financial information?
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