Comments on: How are you with money? http://blog.wesabe.com/2006/09/04/how-are-you-with-money/ The Wesabe blog Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:27:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Erik Benson http://blog.wesabe.com/2006/09/04/how-are-you-with-money/#comment-3543 Erik Benson Thu, 07 Sep 2006 17:59:08 +0000 http://www.wesabe.com/blog/?p=8#comment-3543 I think I personally fall into the stress free category, although I dip into the everyone else pool occassionally because I tend to spend a bit more than I make if I'm not too careful. I agree that trying to find ways to remove stress from people's lives is a great direction to go in. Most of the financial assistant apps I have found tend to reward the "accountant" behavior... replacing money stress with tons of manual reporting and data entry. Mvelopes.com is pretty good at automating a lot of the reporting stuff, but I never got my head wrapped around the envelopes metaphor. I'm curious to see what you're coming up with. I think I personally fall into the stress free category, although I dip into the everyone else pool occassionally because I tend to spend a bit more than I make if I’m not too careful.

I agree that trying to find ways to remove stress from people’s lives is a great direction to go in. Most of the financial assistant apps I have found tend to reward the “accountant” behavior… replacing money stress with tons of manual reporting and data entry. Mvelopes.com is pretty good at automating a lot of the reporting stuff, but I never got my head wrapped around the envelopes metaphor. I’m curious to see what you’re coming up with.

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