mint.com: the best FREE way to manage your money

If you're like me, you have more than one bank account. I've got three checking accounts, a 401K, Roth IRA, multiple saving accounts and a handful of credit cards. How do you keep track? To be perfectly honest, until recently I hadn't been keeping track.

With the economic situation I realized that I needed to get a better grasp on my personal finances and started looking for a tool to help me. A colleague of mine recommended that I look into mint.com. I am now convinced that it is the most amazing and surprisingly FREE way to manage your money!

10 Reasons to try Mint.com
1. It's COMPLETELY FREE
2. It's a safe and secure website. They use bank-level data security and even in the worst case scenario IF someone got into your account it's a read-only service and there's no way anyone can move any of your money
3. You can link ALL of your accounts (checking, savings, 401K, investments, credit cards)

4. Personalized budgets based on your spending habits

5. Alerts that tell you when you've spent an unusually high amount or when a large sum (usually your paycheck) has been deposited

6. See your spending and ability to categorize your expenses (with graphs and visual tools)

7. Reduce debt by showing you how much you're spending on interest to know where you stand and can help you cut back on categories to get out of debt quicker

8. It's EASY. It takes minutes to set up and you're ready to go

9. Mobile Access...and for those of you with iphones, there's an app for the iphone to make using mint.com even easier

10. Top rated and reputable (partial list)

- Time - Top 10 Everything List of 2009

- CNN Money.com - Top 40 under 40

- PCMac.com - Top 100 Websites of 2009

- Kiplinger.com - Best Budgeting Site

- Money - Top Pick

- Business Week - 101 Best Web Freebies

Check it out!

I couldn't say more amazing things about mint.com, especially if you're new at money management.