Comments on: You Need A Budget – Success Story From NCN Reader James – YNAB

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:07:30 +0000

I’ve tried a lot of the options out there but now I’m a huge YNAB fan. And the new YNAB release is even better!

By: Thunderforge

Thunderforge — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:30:14 +0000

Interestingly enough, I started using YNAB about a month ago also from your site! I love it so far and I hope that it becomes as useful to me as it did for this person.

By: yesman

yesman — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:03:37 +0000

Love YNAB! It is the best budget software, period!

Being a Quicken and then MS Money user for many, many, many years, it was a little weird using YNAB at first. Actually, it was very weird. It is like night and day compared to those two. I suggest people view the YNAB video tutorials. I found them really helpful in getting my puny mind around the YNAB rules. And I am currently using YNAB 3 on my mac, which makes it even sweeter! Try it. It will show you how to live on last month’s income (This is my favorite YNAB rule).

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:54:59 +0000

I’m another ynab fan. I’ve been using it for a year and it really does help to give me an accurate picture of my finances.

By: Eric S

Eric S — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:53:53 +0000

I agree wholeheartedly! I’ve used YNAB for two years and it has allowed us -

1. For my wife to work part-time and spend more times with our children.
2. Not scramble for Christmas expenses (we are big spenders on this oliday) as we have in the past.
3. Aid in planning for non-regular expenses such as twice yearly insurance, annual work expenses, etc.
4. Streamline keeping track of expenses.
5. Reduced our spending on areas we wish and allow us to increase in areas we’ve wanted to but previously had never been able.

I’ve not used the new program (yet- it’s downloaded) but from what I’ve read there are some great reporting improvements and more flexibility.

Can you tell I love it?