So it's nearly that time of year again where my wife and I start tracking our spending. This year we tracked every dollar out for the first 3 months of the year, stopped, and ended up spending about 20% more than our estimate of how much our total would be for the year. We got lazy on the tracking and then got lazy with the spending.
We're gonna try to do better next year, starting with trying to track for the whole year. Last year we had a shared google spreadsheet that we entered every purchase into. I like the freedom of my spreadsheet, being able to have as many categories as I want, and being able to analyze it however I want. Having to sit down at a computer and enter everything in, however, got a bit annoying. I'm not looking for a fully automated approach (e.g. using my credit card info), because I think the act of recording it is good psychologically, but my wife and I both have iphones now, and I figure there has to be a good solution to make the recording something I can easily do on the phone and upload to a computer for further analysis. Does anyone have any apps they can recommend?