Comments on: Financial Archaeology

By: Matthew Gordon@twitter

Matthew Gordon@twitter — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:45:55 +0000

So glad I’m keeping my Birdy long-term so I can do something like this someday. Hilarious.

By: skip2mylou

skip2mylou — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 06:33:05 +0000

NFO is an online survey company – back then they actually used to pay more than pennies per survey. It was a good way to earn beer money as a poor college student!

By: sox

sox — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:26:41 +0000

Those party supplies were purchased on my 19th birthday! Unfortunately it was inarguably the worst year of my life, but somehow knowing you were somewhere out there celebrating is a like a teeny bandaid upon my 19 year old soul.

By: peacheater

peacheater — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:00:05 +0000

My boyfriend kept meticulous accounts of his time in a Russian dorm in St. Petersburg studying for his undergrad degree. Besides a record of every book he ever read, he also has every ruble he spent noted down in a tiny notebook. He was ridiculously frugal in those days, spending the equivalent of $30 each month(!) not including rent and cafeteria food which was paid by his dad. (Thankfully he’s loosened up a lot since then). So it’s pages and pages of 1 carton eggs, milk, book etc.

By: kellyography

kellyography — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:11:40 +0000

This is amazing. I don’t use any personal finance programs. It’d be like when I signed up for a nutritional tracker and used it for like a week at a time, years apart.

By: jfruh

jfruh — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:57:43 +0000

@grog I use Quicken ’07 for Mac, having upgraded from Quicken ’02 when Intuit FINALLY released a version of ’07 that worked with Lion. I was actually glad to see that virtually nothing about it had changed since ’02, since I’m very set in my ways! Now that its been upgraded to work with the latest Mac OS I’m hoping it just keeps plugging along for another five years at least. At one point I set up Quicken for Windows and tried importing my data into and the results were not good :(

By: mahiki

mahiki — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:54:06 +0000

@Mike Dang Before I finished reading your response I thought to myself, THEmike@billfold.com? It just makes sense to me.

By: grog

grog — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:39:23 +0000

@grog Also, I really wish Intuit would come out with a new version for the Mac. I just know my Quicken 2007 for Mac is going to break one of these days. I’ve tried iBank4, but I don’t like it.

What do other Mac users use for personal finance?

By: Pariah Carey

Pariah Carey — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:38:36 +0000

Believe it or not, George isn’t at home/Please leave a messaaaage at the beep/I must be out, or I’d answer the phoo-oone/Where could I be?

Believe it or not, I’m not home!

By: grog

grog — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:30:18 +0000

Oh man, you’ve got me beat. We’re about the same age, but my oldest Quicken transaction is only from 6/21/97 ($18.85 at Texaco gas station). Quicken nerds unite!