We've also got a stack of hospital bills - one hospital stay, I've learned, can incur at least a half-dozen separate invoices, which show up sporadically. In past years, we've incurred one or two doctor co-pays annually now we've got a dozen every two months, along with regular prescription costs. I do care about that data mining when it comes to medical bills, now that we have so many. My own personal budgeting approach doesn't demand a Quicken or Microsoft Money I have little enough to track that I can keep it in my head, and I don't care about the detailed data like "how much did I spend on entertainment last month?" that such programs would offer. My bank information and my regular bills (cable, student loan, credit cards, etc) are all available online. I have about six regular bills I pay each month in a batch when I get my mid-month paycheck, and it's easy enough for me to remember to do it. I use PocketMoney on my Palm for day-to-day tracking of money flowing through my checking account. I take a fairly laid-back approach to budget administration in general. Right now, the gaping void vexing me is software for tracking medical expenses. So when I have a problem that seems ideally suited for a software solution, but can't find a good application, I get vexed. The universe of applications is so vast these days, and the barriers to creating new ones so low, that I expect some clever programmer to have solved pretty much any problem I can dream up. I have an entitlement complex about software.
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