I regularly sing the praises of Mint, a free site that makes it easy to manage your finances online, so when I heard about their latest feature — text message alerts of your account balances — I couldn't wait to try it out.
If you're already signed-up to Mint, just text BAL or BALANCE to MyMint (696-468) and Mint will send you the balances from all of your bank accounts that you track in your Mint account.
Now you won't have any excuses about over-spending when you're out shopping!
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Ben Sherman
My sister & I were just talking about how convenient it would be if our credit union could text us back the balance in a particular account we have instead of having to get online or call the 800#. This is GREAT!! I can't wait to try this out! Thanks GeekSugar!
1I think it would be better if the source image for this was a non-iphone phone. Because at first, I thought this was referring to an iphone application. It was only after re-reading it that I realized you were talking about a normal text message.
2This is awesome. I
3I was apprehensive at first, but after going through their security info (It's all read-only - they can't see your passwords or any other sensitive info and you can't use it to move money around) I knew I had to give it a shot.
I've only spent about 10 minutes on this site and I can already see where most of my spending goes - food! I spend way too much time out eating/drinking with friends and I spend even more on buying lunch at work instead of bringing my own. I think I could spend just as much money on healthier food, and probably more of it. My guy and I are looking forward to actually spending more time on this site when we get home from work.
(FYI, apparently WAMU allows for text account balancing as well)
4hmmm i'm gonna try this out.
5tried it and I love it!
6wells fargo does this too
7I often forget to use Mint. I wish they had an iPhone app.
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