Baby Finances

So, my husband bought me a Kindle before we went on our Honeymoon. Best. Gift. Ever. (Sorry mom.) I was debating between a Kindle & an iPad - but I'm glad I went with the Kindle. Mainly, because most of what I wanted to do was read on it. I already have an iPhone and a laptop to web surf or play apps, emails and everything else I typically do on it. I love reading books on my Kindle. I even made up a song. It goes like "my kindle..., my kindle..., I love... my kindle.... I have read books with backlit screens before and they never satisfied - your eyes just got tired after 30-60 minutes. With the e-ink screens - reading experience is much better. Plus the auto-downloading of books - awesome. So easy to do. I figured out how to download library books - SWEET! My mint account is a lot happier about the library books. Today - I discovered the best feature - Whispersync. I've got the Kindle reading ap on my iPhone & laptop. Whispersync allows me to seemles...

Mint has made quite a few major changes since Intuit bought it out - mostly for the good. LOVE the goals that have now been implemented. Love how I can link it to an account, and I love how I can instantly see my progress, see how much further I have to go, and be able to edit to see how adding more or less towards a goal each month would change for that goal. With goals, the one annoying thing that I've found is that I need to dedicate a separate account for each goal. Which means, now I'm not achieving maximum savings rate out of one account (let's be realistic... who is going to open up 5 or 6 savings accounts at the same bank???) It would be great if I could dedicate a certain percentage of an account towards a goal, or a certain dollar amount. That way, I could still see my savings progress, but then I could also get a better savings rate without having to open a ton of new accounts. (I'm lazy, what can I say.) In the last few years I've grown up quite a b...