Quote Originally Posted by Gman View Post
My wife is really good with Excel. She has our budget going out for about 5 years. I'm much more vague about my financials. I know where I want to go and work toward it without being fixated on when life happens.
I use Excel for monthly budget/actuals too.

Every bank service I've used is inaccurate and fails to properly categorize including one time expenses that I want isolated.

With Excel the data is mine. Each month I have to close our accounts and categorize by lines. Probably 30 minutes of work.