DISQUS

bluntmoney · 2 years ago

All of my entries are boring, but I have to say that you just made me feel a WHOLE lot better about my eating-out, since I've never had Quicken try to do that :)

Blaine Moore (First Time Home · 2 years ago

The strangest thing that I've put into Money, hrm...I'm not sure. I haven't had any odd things try to come up as recurring transactions.

I do have a lot of marathon entry fees in there; that would be strange for most people I would think. Does that count?

Flexo · 2 years ago

Sure, I think that counts. You could make it stranger by setting up a new currency to represent miles and track how far you run each day.

George · 2 years ago

I once entered snorkeling gear rental as a work related expense. I was down in Key Largo and I needed to see a coral reef restoration project for my job. I never thought I'd have snorkeling gear as a work related expense. My office's accounting department even questioned the expense. The guy in accounting never really did believe me, lol.

NickV · 2 years ago

Strangest? Hard to say, but we put in absolutely everything, from penny bets to cars, so there must be *something* in there. If I had to guess, it'd be either child related or vacation related (you can find some *weird* stuff out there).

Similar to too eating so much take out that Quicken suggests them as scheduled transactions, it once suggested that we schedule Mon Ami Gabi, a restaurant in Vegas. We don't live in Vegas.

Poorer Than You · 2 years ago

I haven't used any budgeting software yet, so I don't have a "strange thing" to comment with. Although once I put a dinner at IHOP down as a school expense - I had to take my roommate out to dinner there as payment for driving me around for film school related things.

MedWanderer · 2 years ago

Um... I just checked and my 2005 Quicken wants to schedule something called "U2 Red Lobster 00062 Overland". I'm not going to say what that is, other than I am ashamed to print it here! Maybe I should take another look at the budget feature on Quicken??

moneysmartlife · 2 years ago

As the best man I threw a bachelor party road trip to Chicago. One of the passengers was a blow-up doll, that was a pretty interesting ledger entry.

IRA · 2 years ago

Streetwise or donations to homeless people I encounter during the day. I categorize the cash donations as 'charity', but obviously, I don't deduct the amounts when I do my taxes.

Getting Green · 2 years ago

I don't use quicken right now...I use a pretty ghetto excel spreadsheet to track everything. Time to upgrade!

Garrett · 2 years ago

$1.20 late fee I accrued sometime during my last semester at college that prevented them from sending me my diploma.

Jesse · 2 years ago

You couldn't pay me to use Quicken, but the strangest thing I would put in there is the cost of that software. Ha!

Bobby · 2 years ago

Hey. Don't have anything to list as I currently don't use any program. Interested to see if it might benefit me though.

Thanks for the blog.

jim · 2 years ago

Hi!

JClarkin · 2 years ago

Hello,

I just started using MSMoney last year. So far I have liked the pretty graphs, but would love to try out the competition's software.

I have no weird entries yet : )

BT · 2 years ago

I currently enter everything into ledger by hand. This software would allow me to save time, but still remain fiscally responsible.

Thank you!

Andre · 2 years ago

I definitely need to work on getting my finances in order - I know Quicken is only one of the programs out there that does this right?

Eric · 2 years ago

Some people might think "vegan dress shoes + shipping" as multiple levels of strange, but not if they know my avoidance of leather. :)

(Skip me for the giveaway; I already have "Premier" as a gift from someone.)

G-series · 2 years ago

I want quicken!!

Claire Annette · 2 years ago

I have a "God only knows" category. It's used for cash expenses mostly when I am on vacation or otherwise computer-less. It has, on one occasion, been used for something I would have preferred to not see in writing...

(I already have Quicken and don't need another copy)

Jason · 2 years ago

Nothing because I don't have Quicken (yet)! :)

The Money Post · 2 years ago

I had an entry from a little over a year ago out of my misc. cash as, Phoenix Zoo, drunken shenanigans, and Dimondbacks baseball game. Probably should have been separate entries, but based on the drunken shenanigans I probably didn't remember all the details :)

I had some other weird ones from when I first started using Quicken, but I thought that was kind of funny.

Jim · 2 years ago

I used to enter dating as an expense category and the name of the date in the memo field. I could then run transaction reports filtered by the name in the memo field.

"You never take me anywhere..." Oh I disagree and so does Quicken.

Clearly I need to get out of the office more.

ib · 2 years ago

i haven't used tracking software yet!
does it cause more guilt than the purchases list on credit card statements (which i do pay in full monthly)?

Trey · 2 years ago

Hi, I want Quicken...

Flexo · 2 years ago

Thanks, everyone! The winner has been selected, but a new contest is starting tomorrow morning.