Baby Finances

Can I just say - OMG Mint.com has a fitness tab!!!! I'm so excited! I know most of you probably don't have fitness tabs yet (neener neener neener) - they sent me some email asking me to refer it to three friends in order to get it. But it's there, and it's fun, and slightly buggy still. I've been trying it out for about a month now. I'm slightly confused by how it works. It tells me that I should have a three month emergency fund. Okay great - I already have one and it's in straight cash in a savings account. But apparently it doesn't recognize it? Last month I failed at having a 3 month emergency fund... maybe it takes three months to register it? I have no idea. Maybe it's a bug or maybe I'm not using it right. It took me like a month to figure out that I have to not budget for how much I save every month in order to have a thing on the right hand side of the planning tab to say how much I was saving each month. I still put it as pa...

Mint made out well in the 170M aquisition by Intuit. Intuit gets a great company and a great product. Intuit PR insists that Quicken Online isn't doomed - and that they are going after a younger market segment than Mint. This I find to be complete BS. Quicken is much more recognized by older users. The only reason that PR/marketing is saying it's for a younger user is b/c it doesn't have the additional functionality and features that mint has (like tracking investments.) I'll call your BS Intuit PR. You tried to market your Quicken online to your standard users (probably 40+) but found that those people were weary of online Quicken. Those willing were already eaten up by all the other online personal finances places - and really your dataset is younger than standard Quicken users - not younger than standard Mint users. B/C you have less functionality than Mint - you're trying to market it to a younger set than mint. I think that's failing. If the Quicke...