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best personal finance strategy to control my balance
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my bank will let me download credit card transactions directly into a personal finance program, and by assigning categories to stores i can get at least a rough overview of that sidd of things, and then adjust categories/splits when needed. ditto checks. most of my spending is covered by those. doesn't help with cash transactions, though; if i want to capture those accurately i need to save receipts. there are ocr products which claim to help capture those; haven't tried them. currently, since my spending is fairly stable, i'm mostly leaving those as unknown; that wouldn't work for you.
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