EveryDollar - New Free Budgeting Tool by Dave Ramsey

Dave Ramsey has released a FREE budgeting tool, EveryDollar. Since I base my budget on his income allocation budgeting system and have blogged about that before, I thought I'd share a review of his new tool.

I must say I'm impressed with how easy it is to use and set up. My husband and I transferred our April budget over quickly and easily.

I like that it combines the budget and envelope system. Well not really the physical envelope system, but the general idea as it shows you how much you have left in each category at the click of a button.

The only thing I still had to use my notebook for was the savings breakdown. (I use my digital OneNote notebook instead of a physical notebook now.) Since we budget by the month it was fine and not a hassle.

I hope you'll try it out for yourself!

*Well I posted this without ever reading the help section on EveryDollar. I decided to check if it had an option for the savings account breakdown and IT DOES!
What is a Fund? explains the process to adding your savings goals to EveryDollar.

I'm off to try it out now!

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Onenote 2007 for Homeschooling

This past week I've been learning about Onenote 2007. I can't believe I had this great tool all long and wasn't aware of its usefulness! I'm part of the Simply Ruth Beechick yahoo group where someone mentioned they use Onenote 2007 for homeschooling. So, being the curious person I am, I looked into it and I have to say I'm so glad I did. Here are a few links that helped me see different ways I could apply it homeschooling.
http://desertramblings.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/how-technology-helps-me-homeschool-while-working-full-time/
http://www.homeschooltweet.com/home/budget-home-school-planning-with-onenote.html
http://scienceofrelations.blogspot.com/2010/07/interactive-notebooks-with-onenote-and.html
http://learnersathome.blogspot.com/2010/07/student-organization-with-microsoft.html
I'm even using Onenote right now to help me write my post. I've set up notebooks for church follow-up, recipes, Rhiannon's school, lesson planning, and even helped Dan set one up for sermon preparation. If you want to be better organized I recommend using Onenote.
I'm going to try and write a blog series detailing how I'm using Onenote and post pictures of my setup.

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