Looking for Advice

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As I've complained already, houses are expensive, etc etc. I need to more carefully track my money than I have in the past, and I'm looking for suggestions on what tools / approaches you fantastically intelligent friends of mine use.

Basically, the spreadsheet method I use will demand too much effort for too little return. I'd like to track two accounts containing about 4-5 piles of money each. As we spend money on (for example) the electricity bill, I want to track how that pile of electricity bill money is changing.

I may just build an insane spreadsheet, but I figure there's gotta be a better way. Is there?

Comments

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Quicken is the only route to go... after you've assigned a transaction (credit/debit) once it remembers how you've categorized it...
Plus it allows you to budget, and run reports to see how you're doing

One down side... it's expensive :(