Comments on: Happily Ever After on a Budget http://www.cloudfi.com/resources/blog/happily-ever-after-on-a-budget/ Financial Planning and Advice for Growing Families Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:28:00 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: cloudfi http://www.cloudfi.com/resources/blog/happily-ever-after-on-a-budget/comment-page-1/#comment-90 cloudfi Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:19:23 +0000 http://blog.cloudfi.com/?p=813#comment-90 Thanks for the article Andrea! In terms of other easy budgeting tools, some people have found quickenonline.com and mint.com useful, although the challenge is keeping the expense categorizations up to date. I use it now and then but when I don't keep up with the expense categorizations, the reports are less useful. We are thinking about launching a New Parent Financial Kit to help parents take care of all the financial basics related to their child: New Parent Budget (compare to what your peers spend), Saving for College (how much, which 529 Plan, which investment option), getting life insurance (how much, which term-life, how to get it) and will and trust. Would be interested in hearing from other parents whether this would be useful? Thanks for the article Andrea! In terms of other easy budgeting tools, some people have found quickenonline.com and mint.com useful, although the challenge is keeping the expense categorizations up to date. I use it now and then but when I don’t keep up with the expense categorizations, the reports are less useful.

We are thinking about launching a New Parent Financial Kit to help parents take care of all the financial basics related to their child: New Parent Budget (compare to what your peers spend), Saving for College (how much, which 529 Plan, which investment option), getting life insurance (how much, which term-life, how to get it) and will and trust. Would be interested in hearing from other parents whether this would be useful?

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