Budget Blog

What better way to celebrate the new year than with a renewed commitment to financial health? As the year begins, you have a new opportunity to take control of your financial destiny. No matter what your financial situation has been up to this point, you can take it in hand now and change it. It’s not as difficult, involved or as long a process as you think. It simply requires a commitment and a strategy to help you meet that commitment. CalendarBudget is here to help you do just that, starting with these five New Year’s resolutions and some simple [...]

We're Switching From PayPal To 2Checkout For Subscription Payments We want you to have the best experience possible with CalendarBugdet. Over the past months, we've had an increasing number of problems using PayPal directly. Many of you have experienced inconveniences like: Duplicate subscriptions and payments you've had to have refunded and corrected. Those cancelling their account have sometimes had subscriptions with PayPal continue. We Want A Better Experience For Our Members In order to overcome these and other issues to serve you better, CalendarBudget is switching to a new payment processor called 2Checkout. With 2Checkout, you can continue using PayPal [...]

In the book The Next Millionaires by Paul Pilzer, the idea is put forth that our financial success is not only based on what resources we have available to us but also what tools we use. The Next Millionaires is a great book on the new economics that will shape our current and future generations and it challenges many old economic principles. One of the great gems found inside is an equation that Paul discovered. W = P * T Wealth = Personal Resources * Technology This theory suggests that our wealth (as a society) is determined not only by [...]

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Yes! Yes, you can get a car loan during bankruptcy if you live in Canada and it's actually not as difficult as you might think. You might be thinking that creditors will run from your car loan application, but in fact, there are many lenders and creditors out there that want your business simply because your car loan would be a secured loan A secured car loan is a safer loan type for lenders when working with people with not so great credit. Going through the bankruptcy process is hard enough as it is for obvious reasons, but please don't feel [...]

Microsoft Money Discontinued But Still Popular Microsoft discontinued development of MS Money in 2009. Despite the product being discontinued, and the free "Sunset" version being crippled, About.com reports that "MS Money" is still the most searched for term in their Personal Finance forums. Other Better Tools Now Available It's funny how we get used to something and would just rather stick with it rather than change - even if the change is a much better option. Think about how so many people took a long time before even trying a bank ATM and still waited in line for the teller [...]

It's always sad to see a company close its doors. We know Adaptu users have put a ton of effort into setting up their budget and money plans and don't want that to go to waste by having to start over again... so, we at CalendarBudget spent the day writing a special import script for Adaptu data export files. See the article here on About.com to learn how to export your Adaptu data. Once you have your export file, go to CalendarBudget, sign up for your free account, then import your file when the Account Setup Wizard opens. It's that easy. Here's a short [...]