Quicken

[cjsmith]

I am a zealous, overexcited new convert.

Entered about sixteen months' worth of old cash and check expenditure data while in Louisville. Now need credit card data and bank charges, as I didn't have those statements with me there. I feel so potentially organized.

Comments

[msmichelle.livejournal.com]

I've been meaning to go Quicken but never took the leap. The control, the organization, the ability to BUDGET.
Sounds like a good move.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I'm liking it. Quicken has enough complexity available that it can, if you work at it, reflect reality. WOOHOO.

If I were going to start over again, knowing what I know, I'd throw away all my old data. Start with known balances on a known date and move forward from there. A little bit easier.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

I feel so potentially organized.

I think I know what you mean, but that sentence just seems weird. To feel potentially anything, that is. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I do have to finish entering accounts - credit cards I've actually used, checking account statements - and if I don't do that I've thrown away ninety percent of the value. This week is awful, but hopefully I can resurrect my enthusiasm (enough to get going again) next time I have free time.

So yeah, potentially. I suppose my feet are potentially curable, too: maybe I'm just dealing with a lot of potentially lately!

[ozdachs.livejournal.com]

Congratulations... and one word... "Backup".

I have used Quicken for many years without significant problems, and so by now don't record anything except in Quicken.

My life flashed in front of me last spring when the Dell laptop tech was in our living room mumbling about replacing the disk drive with a virigin one -- I knew that my Quicken disks were at least a month old.

I sleep better now knowing I back up at least once a week.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

When I was in Kentucky I didn't have any place to back up my data except a different file on the same disk. That's not ideal for sixteen months' worth of cash data! It's time to implement a better strategy now that I'm home -- thanks for the reminder.

[rfrench.livejournal.com]

USB key!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Didn't bring it to Louisville. Now there's no excuse not to set up the USB drive deal and build a weekly habit...