Money

From: Zachary Vance Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 02:26:03 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Clean up text a bit more X-Git-Url: https://git.za3k.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ae4fac83768abd1edb09be319e8ebaad75cfb1fb;p=za3k.git Clean up text a bit more --- diff --git a/money.html b/money.html index 796d542..96233f8 100644 --- a/money.html +++ b/money.html @@ -1,18 +1,17 @@ Money -I've decided to make public my finances and how I look at them, having found no reason not to. For information about why I thought it was a good idea in 2014, read a blog post about it. -

Or, just see my transaction history (420K csv file) from 2011-2016. - +

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.

My export process broke, so I can no longer provide updates. These are my finances from 2011-2016, and this page is archived.
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. Instead, 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 look through the file by hand, although I experimented with tree mapping software to visualize categories over a particular time spans. I never finished it.
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 because of the receipts things
I've switched to keeping records by hand in 2019.