We are a recently-married couple in southern California. We’re both under 30, and focused on making smart decisions together for our family’s financial future.
We use PocketSmith to track all of our monthly income and expenses, and also keep tabs on our growing investments.
PocketSmith has been such a big relief. We used to have a lot of stress about our monthly budget: we were trying to track everything in Excel. It took a lot of work, and it was hard to see the overall picture of whether we were on track to meet our goals, and how decisions were affecting one another with our newly-combined incomes.
Now that we use PocketSmith, it’s easier for the two of us to collaborate with our budget and make sure we’re both making decisions that fit within our shared goals. We’d highly recommend PocketSmith for any married couple who is having trouble combining finances and is looking for a solution to streamline the process. Now, we can see exactly how much each person earns and spends, and track this relative to our pre-agreed on budget categories for the month. It’s a dream!
We toggle back and forth frequently between the Dashboard and Cashflow tabs to see what our overall accounts balances are, and then to look at how we’re doing on monthly spending in each bucket. Sometimes we see that we’re slightly over in one category, such as groceries, and we decide how to rebalance the monthly budget to make more room for buying great ingredients for home cooking and instead spend less eating out at restaurants.
About once every three days.
Be sure to link all of your accounts into PocketSmith. It’s best when you can see the complete picture of your financial activity, rather than just a snapshot of a few cards.
Getting our monthly budget under control to make sure we are spending less than we earn every month.
I am — first, and foremost — a Dad and Husband, which means I am toy- and house-mender, Lego builder, and head Fort builder. When my busy schedule of fatherhood lets up I am also a cyclist, photographer, IT guy, business builder and Meetup organiser.
We have a 5 year-old son and a 2 year-old Siberian Husky. My family and I currently live in a motorhome and drive around the United States.
We've started our journey towards financial freedom, and started using PocketSmith in October 2014 just to track expenses, but this year we have started to unleash it’s full potential.
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