Money

From: Zachary Vance Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2023 17:26:47 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Switch money to markdown X-Git-Url: https://git.za3k.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1a5cf68ad410f4e55cf931ca54ae08dc50479488;p=za3k.git Switch money to markdown --- diff --git a/archive/money.html b/archive/money.html deleted file mode 100644 index 6a02c96..0000000 --- a/archive/money.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ - -Money - -

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I've decided to make public my finances and how I look at them, having found no reason not to. My export process broke, so I can no longer provide updates.

Here's my transaction history (420K csv file) from 2011-2016.

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For information about why I thought it was a good idea in 2014, read a blog post about it.
I use a debit card for most things, because it includes automatic logging. Even prepaid gift cards give you access to their logs these days, which I think is great. My bank then provides access to my history through their online portal. I rarely look at this directly except to see scanned checks.
I hooked up Mint.com, which integrates with most banks, and can give a combined report in a common format. That's where the CSV export is from. I used to have an automatic export, but Mint broke it. So (among other reasons) my data won't be updated any more, and you only get data up to 2016
I mostly looked through the CSV file by hand, although I experimented with tree mapping software to visualize categories over a particular time spans. I never made a very polished version. I did make some charts, both on the computer and grid paper.
I really wish grocery stores would itemize reciepts back to the bank or at least a QR code. It's available by law in Russia. I keep and scan my old receipts to cross-reference them. I also check against email invoices, paypal, amazon, ebay, etc. I can tell you it's worth archiving this stuff NOW if you want it in five years--most of it is impossible to get now, even online orders for sites that are still up.
I've switched to keeping records by hand in 2019, which deals with invoice/receipt line-items.

- - diff --git a/archive/money.md b/archive/money.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eb4772c --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/money.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Money + +[za3k](/) > [archive](/archive/) > money + +I've decided to make public my finances and how I look at them, having found no reason not to. My export process broke, so I can no longer provide updates. + +Here's my [transaction history (420K csv file) from 2011-2016](mint-transactions.csv) + +- For information about why I thought it was a good idea in 2014, read [a blog post about it](https://blog.za3k.com/making-my-finances-public/) +- I use a debit card for most things, because it includes automatic logging. Even prepaid gift cards give you access to their logs these days, which I think is great. My bank then provides access to my history through their online portal. I rarely look at this directly except to see scanned checks. +- I hooked up [Mint.com](https://www.mint.com), which integrates with most banks, and can give a combined report in a common format. That's where the CSV export is from. I used to have an automatic export, but Mint broke it. So (among other reasons) my data won't be updated any more, and you only get data up to 2016 +- I mostly looked through the CSV file by hand, although I experimented with [tree mapping](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treemapping) software to visualize categories over a particular time spans. I never made a very polished version. I did make some charts, both on the computer and grid paper. +- I really wish grocery stores would itemize reciepts back to the bank or at least a QR code. It's available by law in Russia. I keep and scan my old receipts to cross-reference them. I also check against email invoices, paypal, amazon, ebay, etc. I can tell you it's worth archiving this stuff NOW if you want it in five years--most of it is impossible to get now, even online orders for sites that are still up. +- I've switched to keeping records by hand in 2019, which deals with invoice/receipt line-items.