Quicken 2010 Now Available


Good news! Quicken 2010 is available to purchase beginning today!

Quicken desktop products, like Quicken Deluxe and Quicken Premier, have capabilities such as investing research, portfolio management, tax information, net worth tracking, etc. You could spend hours with these Desktop tools doing financial analysis and planning. [click to continue…]

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Step-by-Step Guide: How to Convert Your Data from Microsoft Money to Quicken


The recent departure of Microsoft from the personal finance category caused me to be orphaned like thousands of other Microsoft Money users. After researching the alternatives to Microsoft Money I decided to convert to Quicken based upon the similarity to Money and the promised easy data transfer. The fact that Amazon.com had Quicken Premier 2009 on sale for less than half price for a short time was a nice bonus!

I followed the official Money to Quicken data transfer instructions and found them to be good overall but a bit lacking in details. Upon import I discovered an error in the instructions as well. To make it easier for anyone else who wants to transfer their data from Money to Quicken I decided to publish a set of corrected and enhanced instructions here.

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Woman Refuses to Pay Bank of America Credit Card

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There is a video making the rounds this week in which a woman named Ann Minch decides to take a stand against Bank of America after her credit card interest rate was boosted to 30%. Although we only hear her side of the story, it is an interesting tale in light of the horrible time [...]

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Intuit to Acquire Mint

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Personal finance software company Intuit will acquire online personal finance service Mint in a deal to be announced later this week, according to TechCrunch.  Intuit is the company behind Quicken, QuickBooks and TurboTax.
Mint launched two years ago and quickly became the #1 online personal finance service with over 1 million users, ironically beating out Intuit’s [...]

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Seven Solid Alternatives for Microsoft Money Users

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Seven outstanding alternatives to Microsoft Money! Orphaned Money users rejoice!

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Amex and Discover Eliminate Overlimit Fees

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American Express and Discover eliminate overlimit fees. This good news for cardholders comes with a bit of a catch…

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What is Financial Freedom?

Financial Freedom is a concept you will see mentioned a lot throughout the Retired by Choice website.  If you Google the term Financial Freedom you get over 42 million results!  Obviously there is a lot of interest in the topic.  But what exactly is Financial Freedom?
The short answer is:  there is no set definition of [...]

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How Much is Seven Cents Worth to You?

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True Story: Customer goes out for lunch at a diner.  Total bill is $6.07.  Customer pays with credit card, writing in a $0.93 tip and a total of $7.00 which he signs for.
Three weeks later customer receives the credit card statement and the lunch charge is listed as $7.07.  The statement has meal cost and [...]

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