How to Budget Using Mint

If you do not want to pay for a budgeting tool and are not using Mint then you are making a big mistake.  Mint allows you to create a zero based budget, track and categorize your transactions, and create and track goals for your finances.  This article will concentrate on how I use Mint to create a zero based budget.

The first item when creating your budgets is deciding what you need to budget for and creating a budget for them on the budget page on Mint's homepage.  When creating a budget you need to know what your allocation for that expense is going to be.  Another selection you have is selecting if you want the budget to roll over to the next month.  While this is an awesome feature I do not use it since I create a new budget for each month.

How to Save Money On Your Wedding: Save the Dates

When I started researching and implementing items to save money on my wedding we tried to save money on our save the dates.  My fiance and I decided to create our own save the date magnets.  This was not a perfect process for us but hopefully with these tips it can be for you.

We followed the steps at DIY: Turn Your Fridge into a Gallery Wall, Make Photo Magnet Mosaics! to create our magnets.  We created the magnets using this websites steps with a little variation.  We did not use the dimensional magic glaze.  This is because it was very difficult to put the glaze on our save the dates without any bubbles and keeping it evenly distributed.  Also the glaze was rather expensive for the 100 save the dates that we created.  But, these save the date magnets turned out really well.  These magnets cost us $100 for 75 magnets.