Wampum

In December John and I will have been married 35 years. More than half that time we’ve used software to track our finances. It makes balancing the checkbook and maintaining a budget so much simpler than using paper, pens and a calculator. I’d assumed we’d be able to continue using it in England, but that turned out to be much more complicated than it should have been. Quicken used to be available in the UK, but for some reason Intuit decided to drop the British market in 2005. And for most British banks (ours included) online banking is still rather primitive. It’s so nice to be back where we can manage all our accounts from laptops or even cell phones. Last week I read about a Gallup poll that says only one in three American households have a budget. They either never learned how, or are unwilling to make the effort. Pretty lazy if you ask me.