Consumerism Commentary - Latest Comments in Quicken: Schedule This Payment?

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Harlan Landes — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:15:06 -0000

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

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Trey — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:52:31 -0000

Hi, I want Quicken...

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ib — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:34:15 -0000

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)?

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Jim — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:49:19 -0000

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.

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The Money Post — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:00:07 -0000

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.

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Jason — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:53:23 -0000

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

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Claire Annette — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:32:18 -0000

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)

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G-series — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:29:47 -0000

I want quicken!!

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Eric — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:59:44 -0000

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.)

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Andre — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:09:04 -0000

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?

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BT — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:42:57 -0000

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

Thank you!

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JClarkin — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:32:46 -0000

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 : )

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jim — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:01:45 -0000

Hi!

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Bobby — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:52:43 -0000

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.

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Garrett — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:12:39 -0000

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

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Getting Green — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:40:16 -0000

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

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IRA — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:48:39 -0000

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.

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moneysmartlife — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:51:55 -0000

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.

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MedWanderer — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:48:55 -0000

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??

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Poorer Than You — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:46:40 -0000

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.

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NickV — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:42:09 -0000

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.

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George — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:23:04 -0000

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.

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Harlan Landes — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:06:41 -0000

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.

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Blaine Moore (First Time Home — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:04:47 -0000

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?

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bluntmoney — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:52:41 -0000

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 :)