Obviously income and spending are two vital parts of a budget. 1- Income and Spending in Mint aren’t connected. Mint is fine for seeing where your money went, but not a really good way of telling it where to go, which is what a budget should do. Here are a few of the specific problems we had with our Mint budget. While I like the convenience of having all of the info from various accounts all in one place, Mint isn’t really a budgeting tool. You can split transactions between multiple categories if you need to. In order for your budget to be useful, you must categorize each transaction. Sometimes Mint does a good job of guessing, but it often gets the category wrong. Each time you log in to Mint you’ll want to take a look at your transactions to check the categories Mint has assigned each transaction to. For each category, you set a spending amount. ![]() You can set a budget with Mint by clicking on the budget tab. Each time we log into Mint, Mint logs into all of our accounts to bring us the current balances and transactions. We have all of our financial accounts connected to Mint (checking accounts, savings accounts, retirement accounts, credit cards, student loans). ![]() Since 2007 we have used to track our spending and budget. I’m really excited to share with you how we have overcome some of the stumbling blocks of budgeting and why switching from Mint to YNAB has totally transformed our budgeting! Mint
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