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http://www.mint.com

Mint.com is a website owned by Intuit, the makers of Quicken accounting and tax software. Instead of having to login seperately at each of your financial institutions websites you simply put in all your different account information.

Mint can then bring all of your different bank transactions and account balances into one place so you have a realtime snapshot of your whole financial picture. It can also hook in to investment accounts and credit cards so everything can be viewed in one place.

The most beneficial part of the site is under the 'trends' tab. This allows to quickly see your spending on different categories across all accounts and also your total income coming from all sources. As the Mint software can automatically figure out what most transactions are there isn't a whole lot of manual work that has to be done to classify them.

By using this site for the last year I can now easily see where my money goes and where I can save as well as see my assets growing and debts reducing slowly but surely.

This is by far the easiest way to get a handle on your finances as most home based software requires you to download the transactions from each website manually. Give it a try and see where your money's going!