About 25 years or so ago I used to use software to do my household accounts. I can't remember the name of it now but I do know that it was very good to use, but it was discontinued. I just wondered if anyone can recommend software for personal use.
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Yes - you'll need to add a few headings as household accounts won't fit into the standard accounting headings but no reason why you shouldn't use VT or, indeed, any accounting package.
Microsoft Money was an excellent program and it's a pity it was discontinued. Another program similar (and may well be the one you were thinking of) was called Quicken. I'm sure I've got a copy of Microsoft Money floating around somewhere.
Yes, I rather liked Quicken, but found Money suited my purposes better.
Quicken is still available, which I wasn't aware of
You can still get MM from Amazon as well (not cheap though)
You can say that again! I've just had a look, £50 for 15-20 year old software? They're having a laugh.
I've got about 100 CD's of various old software underneath my office table. I could be sat on a goldmine lol.
There is a market for disks containing obsolete programs because nobody wants to learn a new program (or even the latest version of an old program, eg: Windows 10) if they don't have to and if their favourite program was on a computer that died irrevocably and they didn't bother to keep their original disk, and re-loading doesn't trigger a demand for checking back in with the mothership, they may well pay a good price for a replacement disk. If the program is obsolete who is going to pursue the seller or the buyer for breach of the licence agreement?
Unfortunately, the original Quicken is no longer supported in the UK by Intuit, only their business offering, Quickbooks.
I do my household books on a venerable Quicken 2001, which still runs happily under WIndows 10!
I use Wave Accounting for a small club that I act as Treasurer for - its cloud based and free, and you can configure the Chart of Accounts any way you wish, so can't see any reason why that wouldn't work for you.
I use this for our personal accounts and investments. It has a similar look to Quicken. Have used for a number of years and find it very good.
https://moneydance.com/
BankTree £35 but a free trial to test before you buy. But they refresh every few years and you have to buy again.
Or Quickfile free for small companies and MTD compliant but focus on companies rather than household accounts
My Father in Law has a 'blue book'
It contains all his savings,utilities and well everything. His stock of old light bulbs is in there and it is adjusted every time a new bulb is required. He spends days in his little office carefully recording every transaction. He is in late eighties but it keeps him happy and moves his brain cells around. It is believed that the secret of the universe is in there somewhere. All people should have a 'blue book'
You can download for free the "Sunset" version of Microsoft Money - no support tho.
Look at Gnucash - there is also a portable version that runs from a USB stick - carry it with you, for easy reference. It is truly free, open source, no ads, and there is a large community of geeks supporting it online.
I use QuickBooks, and have set up household categories for my chart of accounts. I have all my bank feeds apart from Monzo which I have to import via CSV. It makes me happy :) lol!
I previously used moneydance which was great, but moved away as I wanted something purely cloud based.