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I downloaded a new peice of software to try out on my PDA. It’s called Ultrasoft Money and it’s basically a portable version of Microsoft Money which is what Heather and I use to keep track of all our banking. I get really bad about keeping receipts in my wallet and such, so I thought, since I keep my receipts in my pocket for so long and don’t ever enter them into the “checkbook” I shoudl carry the checkbook with me and enter them in right away. This Ultrasoft Money think is awesome. It does everything Money needs to do in your pocket, including auto entering data and such. It makes entering receipts a piece of cake. So not only do I know exactly how much money I have, but then I can take it home and sync the PDA and it will enter all that stuff into Microsoft Money on the computer.
The only problem is that it’s $40 and I don’t have that kind of money, even though, technically, it will save my hundreds in bank fees since I’ll be more on top of my finances. Like, I last looked at my account information at home on like Saturday morning and I had $47 dollars. Since then I’ve bought two things and now have only $41, but if I wasn’t entering the data in immediately, I’d only be guessing at ammounts rather than being able to say for certain. Now when I estimate how much money I have, I often get off by $4-5 which can mean the difference between being okay or being overdrawn. When I get overdrawn, because of the delays in posting with the check card, I can often buy two or three things, thinking I’m still okay, but actually being overdrawn before the bank and I realize. Then they charge me $33 an item for being overdrawn. So really, if this software even keeps me from being overdrawn once, it’s almost paid for itself.
I’m also trying to make more and more reasons to carry my PDA with me at all times because often it would be really helpful to have it, even though I tend to forget it a lot. By finding more and more ways it can save my life, I’ll be more likely to pick it up and slip it in my pocket when I leave the house. Oh well. I guess I really should find something to do rather than just writing journal entries.
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I wish I had a PDA as opposed to my daily planner and pencil thingy. Use it. Those of us who don’t have one are supremely jealous.
Do you have access to your departments job descriptions at work?
Hey, they’re coming down in price, and can be extremely cheap on eBay.
Department Job Descriptions? Such as?
IT Manager/Director
What I’m looking for is a good hardware/software based job description as the idiot who wrote ours knew nothing about IT.
Not on hand, no. Sorry.
No biggie. I’ll try to come up with something that at least sounds competent. Thanks!
that sounds like an awesome program. I think it’s totally worth the 40 bucks! Avoid 2 overdraft charges and you’ve saved money. The only down side I could see is with your joint account because Heather would be able to see the info on the PDA until you had a chance to transfer it over. It’s perfect for your account though! Gee, now I want one. Never really wanted one before…
I’d use it mostly for my account and as a reference to the joint account. I almost never pull money from joint without heather knowing and she pretty much only does so when shopping.
Yeah, its $40 for one PDA or $60 for two. Heather’s installed it on hers now and we may be getting two copies here shortly (30 day demo, so maybe next month).
The software can be found at http://www.ultrasoft.com
February 3, 2004