Free Money Management Tool – Mint.com

Need help keeping all your account organized, understanding your money, and tips to better money management? Mint.com offers a free online budget service that will help you set up and track your budget based on  your monthly spending. It can also email you your current balances, suggestions for changes you may want to make in your budget, and bill reminders.

To learn more, visit Mint.com.

Organize Receipts with Shoeboxed.com

If you run a small business, keeping your receipts organized and accessible helps make tax time easier. If you run a business or freelance in which you need to pay estimated tax payments four times a year, you may want to check out Shoeboxed.com, where you can mail-in or upload your receipts to organize them and get rid of clutter. The information can then be transferred to programs such as Excel, Quickbooks, Freshbooks, Evernote, Quicken, and CSV formats. If you scan and upload your receipts yourself, the service is free. Or you can mail your receipts and Shoeboxed will scan them for you. You can even scan and upload using your phone. Fees for expanded services depend on how many receipts a month you upload. There is even an option to upload business cards.

To learn more or get started for free, visit ShoeBoxed.com. Also check out ShoeBoxed’s blog for great articles on personal finance, taxes and more.

Best Deals Online in One Spot

One of the great things about the Internet is the ability to research great deals on everything you need. The trick is to sort through thousands of resources to find the deals you want and need. Over at Wise Bread, they have made the deal finding a little bit easier. On its Deals Roundup page, Wise Bread lists the day’s best deals, coupons and freebies from the best bargain sites on the web.

HalfOffDepot.com Saves You 50%

“Why live life at full price?” is the mantra at HalfOffDepot.com which provides full-value vouchers at half-price. Obtaining vouchers is simply a matter of finding your city in the HalfOffDepot.com database, select the vouchers you want, and purchase them for half price. The vouchers are delivered by mail and can then be taken to the business and redeemed for its full value (twice what you paid).

HalfOffDepot.com is a great service receiving kudos on Yelp sites throughout the county. The drawback is that there are many cities and states that aren’t represented. For example, for me to take advantage of the discount, I’d need to shop in Washington, D.C. or North Carolina, which is second to Texas in having the most cities representated.

Visit HalfOffDepot.com for details.

Better Business Bureau for Charities

Hardly a day goes by without a call or direct mail piece from a charitable organization wanting money. All sound like worthy causes, but how can you really know if your money is being put to good use? The answer is to check out the Better Business Bureau, which has a list of charities and a variety of information that you can use to determine if you’d like to support the cause. Not only can you learn more about the organization, its services and history, but you can see what percentage of monies are used towards the cause, and whether or not it meets the BBB’s Standards of Charity Accountability. The BBB offers a resource library with information on make the most of your charity giving and if you’ve had a problem with a charity you can file a complaint.

To learn more, visit the Better Business Bureau’s Charity information.