{"id":2188,"date":"2009-11-26T02:30:31","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T07:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2009-11-26T02:30:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T07:30:50","slug":"ees-minty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=2188","title":{"rendered":"Minty Fresh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a while now I&#8217;ve wanted a good personal finance application for our Mac. PC users often like Quicken, but Quicken for Mac apparently doesn&#8217;t work nearly as well, and I couldn&#8217;t find a good alternative. Then I discovered a free personal finance website called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mint.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mint.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>What I wanted most was a tool to do two things: track our spending against our budget and gather all of our financial account data into one location for easy viewing. With a couple of exceptions, Mint.com does both. I can set a budget for any number of categories (pharmacy, electric bill, groceries, etc.), download my credit card transactions, and easily (often automatically) map the transaction to the category, giving me a running total for each month. If I exceed my budget for a category, the site emails me an alert message. I can rollover my budget from month to month if my spending varies. Sure, it doesn&#8217;t have all the advanced features of some programs, but it&#8217;s FREE, it&#8217;s secure, it works, and I can access it from anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while now I&#8217;ve wanted a good personal finance application for our Mac. PC users often like Quicken, but Quicken for Mac apparently doesn&#8217;t work nearly as well, and I couldn&#8217;t find a good alternative. Then I discovered a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=2188\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}