And I couldn't be more excited to share with my contribution to all the giveaway goodness going on this week in the blogosphere!
This is actually so timely considering my post last night, and the recent talk of grocery budgets, etc.
I am thrilled to be offering one budgeting software system, from YouNeedABudget.com to one very blessed reader!
This is the software that my husband and I have been using for almost 6 months now, and we are thrilled to pieces with it. Back in January my husband wrote a rave review of it, with much more information about the ins and outs of how it works and how he likes using it, so please go ahead and read that if you'd like to learn a little more about it.
Jesse from YNAB has generously offered to give one of my readers a YNAB Pro system, valued at $39.95 (and worth every single penny!).
Here's how to get in on this absolutely fantastic giveaway:
1) Make a quick visit to YNAB's site and get an idea of what this system entails.
2) Leave me a comment letting me know what aspect of the software most appeals to you or why you could really use a program like this.
3) Make sure that you leave an email address, so that I have a way to contact you if you win (as always, this contest is open to bloggers and non-bloggers).
4) Contest ends Sunday, April 27 at 4pm.
To find more great giveaways, make sure that you visit Bloggy Giveaways!
I think it is neat that the program will monitor and tell you about your spending trends. Sounds neat. I enjoy hearing the statistics about just about anything. Thank you for the chance. I would really like to figure out a budget for myself. Thanks!
This would be wonderful! My husband and I are always trying to do better with budgeting, and a program like this would be an awesome blessing to us!!
Katie
boastinginmyweakness.com
This looks like a neat system, and I appreciate that it is based on a thought-out methodology. I have my finances on a computer program, but that just tells me where I spent everything; I really need help looking forward and planning ahead! Thank you for sharing this with us.
i like that this truly seems to be geared toward family vs. personal expenditures
Great giveaway! I hope i'm the lucky winner! :)
Finding wasteful spending and getting out of debt would be the two features I would be most interested in on the software. Thanks for thinking to give something like this away. We all need it...unless we're already really good at this.
GREAT giveaway!
I like that it is software versus the spreadsheet I use now. I also like giving every dollar a job. Seems like something we could really use right now.
Hey, if you have a chance, please stop by and visit my contest page too!
http://weirdstuffinmydesk.com/?p=41
my email is:
racoo.smith at gmail dot com
Thanks and have a lovely day!
I like the budget application. We really need to get a handle on how much we spend and have a hard time knowing where to start.
This looks like a great thing! I think it would be a great tool to achieving a good working partnership between spouses regarding finances,
while bringing about financial peace of mind. Thanks for this great giveaway!
We definitely need to assign every dollar a job. And I've heard a lot about paying cash for all purchases. That would be a challenge. Oh! And then there's retirement... I'd love to have it! Great giveaway.. keep up the great blog. I'm a daily reader!
Tara
I like the idea of Living on less than you earn
Gosh, I could really use this, we are planning for a big vacation right now and keep going over our food and gas budgets, especially. Great giveaway - I'd love to win! Thanks and please enter mine, too! :D
Oh WOWWOWWOW, I would LOVE this! I am the budget keeper in our home and currently use BOTH Quicken and Excel...it seems this program merges the two together in such a user friendly way. I love the "rules" idea and that it's developed by someone who needed it and did it..it works! Great great concept. thanks for this wonderful giveaway! :D
I like simple money management in one places. Having a ton of different account can be confusing. The car maintenance option sounds great too.
I love that I couldn't lose it. haha. seriously, i write down out budget on scraps of paper and tend to lose them. we do have a master "plan" of sorts that I saved on the computer.
I love how easy it looks and the debt free portion. My husband is self employed and it's always been hard for me to figure how to budget. I think this would be a great help and we need it right now. We had put money back to live off in January when he went in for knee surgery but never expected when he returned towork he would be hurt and off work for 6 months now with no income. We need out of debt! Thanks for the opportunity to win this.
We have 5 boys who like to eat! I need any help budgeting!
Thanks for the chance to win!
Rejoicing in Him,
Jill
http://tonsofsons.wordpress.com/
I have been trying in vain to use the budgeting feature in Microsoft Money for at least 3 or 4 versions of the software. It just isn't really a budget, it's more of an expenditure listing. I'd love to have a system that could truly keep our family on track.
Thanks for the giveaway!
dburdenbates (at) gmail (dot) com
I could really use this because I have tried budgeting with just an Excel spreadsheet in the past and it doesn't really do everything I need it to.
This would be great! Thanks for the giveaway!
Our budget (or lack of) needs an overhaul and this would be a great way to kick things off. My husband will be starting a new job & lots of things are going to be changing. It would be nice to have the ease of an automated system to help track things.
Thank you for offering this for the contest!
four simple secrets and a income tax forecaster. this sounds like a great program!
This sounds great! I've been trying to keep up with our budget on an excel spreadsheet but because it's so much work I end up inputting all our expenses after the month is over and then find out if we stayed on track (which usually never happens). I need a way to keep on top of it and this sounds great.
Anyhting that can help me lives below my means is gold in my book!! cookiecutter hotmail com
I think we could use this in our family. We are having a hard time making ends meet since the price of EVERYTHING has gone sky high! Gas, groceries, teenagers...we need help.
Thank you for hosting this giveaway.
Tiffany Rosson
tiffanyannrosson AT yahoo DOT com
We've been trying to put ourselves on a budget for months and just can't seem to get it done. I would love some help! And this looks great!
I'm intrigued by "giving every dollar a job" That sounds like a good idea. I could handle that.
I like the goal of being debt free.
I love the whole program because I was just online looking for something like this yesterday! I like the graphs b/c it makes it so easy to SEE how (or where) things are going!
i have a tendency to spend emotionally (like other commenters!) but love seeing everything in a spreadsheet. software that was designed JUST for this would help...
I think what appeals to me is it looks like a solid way to get things paid and stay in a budget. From the testimonials it seems to work well if followed
peggie dot loden at gmail dot com
I could always be better with my budget. Looks liek a good program.
I love the part about being debt free!! My husband and I have been reading the Total Money Makeover and he listens to Dave Ramsey on the way home from work and loves everything he has to say. I would like this software because I could do it myself instead of relying on my husband to do all the work. I think I could implement this into our lives with ease and hopefully start lowering some of our debt, groceries is my big thing having four children! Thank you again for your blog, I just love it:) Lezlie
Wow! I have never heard of this program. I get SO frustrated with MM, and YNAB seems far more user friendly. That would be my favorite feature :)
My DH is a software engineer so the fact that it is computer based is great! We (he) would be more likely to use it because of that fact. Right now we both feel so overwhelmed with finances that we tend to pretend things are fine, when in reality we are falling more and more behind. This might just be what we need! Maybe we will shell out the $$$ if we don't win, but *fingers crossed* that we do!
I would LOVE to win this! My husband and I struggle with our finances and have recently decided to try somethings like this, just haven't bought it yet!
Feeling like I have control over my money instead of it having control over me. Or rather, the people/business that want my money having that control. Sounds like a great software!
http://nottryingforaboy.com
nottryingforaboy(at)gmail(dot)com
I like the fact that since I am at the computer alot that this is a software not a piece of paper I can loose.
Please enter me.
M. Waters
hugapoohlouise@yahoo.com
The hope of not living paycheck to paycheck draws me to it. That and the fact I need a better method than just a monthly calendar I print to organize my budget and our bills.
Jennifer
dj3hill98(at)bellsouth(dot)net
We deeply need to get on a budget - we have crazy credit card debt from my hubby's medical school years, and it's starting to eat away at me.
Seriously -- as soon as I saw Rule One (live this month on last month's pay) I'm sold. That sounds like HEAVEN -- to not be worried about paying all the bills, to have that money socked away so I could pay them as they come??? I NEED this software!!! I'm bookmarking - if I don't win, I'm going to have to buy it! :)