I keep my financial information on Mint.com, which is great. I get weekly and monthly updates, but I usually check a few times a week. Strongly recommend Mint; it covers all financial activity very thoroughly and completely.
I generally keep an eye on my budget every day but I usually look at it closely once a month, just to make sure I am not overspending in a certain area. Usually I check it every time my credit card statements come since I normally put everything on my credit card (I pay it off ever month) and it lists out all my purchases.
About twice a year we will go in and really evaluate our budget and make any adjustments. I am watching our budget very closely, but at this point we have our costs pretty well planned out.
I tell myself I really need to evaluate my budget almost everyday. Realistically, it doesn't doesn't get done until some crisis hits. Bad, I know. I'm a new reader (and now new FB Liker) so hopefully this will change and evaluating my budget will be something done regularly and become a "normal" event. Looking forward to hearing how often other readers evaluate their budgets. Thanks for all your help!
We evaluate as needed, but do a complete check about once a year, or if my husband's salary changes. Sometimes you need to do a course correction mid-year and that shuffling doesn't take much time, but serious checking to make sure you have all the spending areas covered by either savings or planning is essential, I believe. A budget is merely a road map to help you get where you want to go financially, not an evil instrument of torture designed to restrict you from what you want to do. They bring a sense of freedom and relaxation that can never be possible if you don't plan ahead!
I started my budget in October of 2011, and I plan to re-evaluate at the one year mark. I'm new to budgeting so I have made small adjustments here and there.
We look over the budget each time my husband is paid. Right now that means a weekly checkup. Money is very tight but we try to adjust as we can to save more.
At least once a week - I use the Mint.com app and have it on my Chrome home page. Whenever I open it, and that's almost daily, it posts useful highlights about how I'm doing with my budgets for various categories. I use this information to rebalance budgets about once a week, and definitely once a month.
At the very least I'll review the spending twice a month (basically on pay day). However I'll check more frequently if I know I've been spending more than I normally do in a week/month. Just to make sure I'm either keeping to the budget or reason why I'm over spending my budget that month and where I need to cut back or change a habit.
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I just can not wrap my head around a word that has "death" in its meaning as it relates to my money, so, I will be looking to buy my first house in cash. I'm keeping my eye on Homepath.com listings, where I may consider a fixer-upper since I don't need to move right away.
my parents were victims of this gift card fraud and are out $250 in Macy's gift cards. That is not right or fair to them. Dad spent $250 at Kroger, gave to Mom for Christmas and she just went to use last week and there is a zero balance. So, they are both out (he $250 cash and she is out a gift).
I keep my financial information on Mint.com, which is great. I get weekly and monthly updates, but I usually check a few times a week. Strongly recommend Mint; it covers all financial activity very thoroughly and completely.
Once a month.
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I generally keep an eye on my budget every day but I usually look at it closely once a month, just to make sure I am not overspending in a certain area. Usually I check it every time my credit card statements come since I normally put everything on my credit card (I pay it off ever month) and it lists out all my purchases.
We do a monthly budget and review it at the end of the month.
About twice a year we will go in and really evaluate our budget and make any adjustments. I am watching our budget very closely, but at this point we have our costs pretty well planned out.
I make revisions as necessary but do a detailed category by category review about once every six months or so.
I tell myself I really need to evaluate my budget almost everyday. Realistically, it doesn't doesn't get done until some crisis hits. Bad, I know. I'm a new reader (and now new FB Liker) so hopefully this will change and evaluating my budget will be something done regularly and become a "normal" event. Looking forward to hearing how often other readers evaluate their budgets. Thanks for all your help!
I do a thorough check of my budget every month. I am monitoring it every few days for any mistakes.
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We go over our budget every couple of months, or whenever we have a big change.
For sure yearly and as needed
For my part i do it EVERYDAY with Budget Express ( French).
Everytime i spend on something, i enter it in that program.
( I mean EVERY TIME...lol... Bought a pack of gum ? Enter it..!!)
Being a visual person..and very disciplined..this metod works best for me.
So far , so good...
We evaluate as needed, but do a complete check about once a year, or if my husband's salary changes. Sometimes you need to do a course correction mid-year and that shuffling doesn't take much time, but serious checking to make sure you have all the spending areas covered by either savings or planning is essential, I believe. A budget is merely a road map to help you get where you want to go financially, not an evil instrument of torture designed to restrict you from what you want to do. They bring a sense of freedom and relaxation that can never be possible if you don't plan ahead!
I started my budget in October of 2011, and I plan to re-evaluate at the one year mark. I'm new to budgeting so I have made small adjustments here and there.
yearly
We look over the budget each time my husband is paid. Right now that means a weekly checkup. Money is very tight but we try to adjust as we can to save more.
We evaluate our budget twice a year.
At least once a week - I use the Mint.com app and have it on my Chrome home page. Whenever I open it, and that's almost daily, it posts useful highlights about how I'm doing with my budgets for various categories. I use this information to rebalance budgets about once a week, and definitely once a month.
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At the very least I'll review the spending twice a month (basically on pay day). However I'll check more frequently if I know I've been spending more than I normally do in a week/month. Just to make sure I'm either keeping to the budget or reason why I'm over spending my budget that month and where I need to cut back or change a habit.
Everyone of these are excellent ideas, from top to bottom. The one I like the most is to Teach Something. Adult learners actually learn material more effectively when they have to teach someone else...and they don't have to start out as an expert when they start teaching. Teach what little bit you know to someone else as soon as you can, and you'll know it more thoroughly. Rinse. Lather. Repeat, and you'll become very knowledgeable.
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I just can not wrap my head around a word that has "death" in its meaning as it relates to my money, so, I will be looking to buy my first house in cash. I'm keeping my eye on Homepath.com listings, where I may consider a fixer-upper since I don't need to move right away.
my parents were victims of this gift card fraud and are out $250 in Macy's gift cards. That is not right or fair to them. Dad spent $250 at Kroger, gave to Mom for Christmas and she just went to use last week and there is a zero balance. So, they are both out (he $250 cash and she is out a gift).