Jesse Mecham

Eight is the perfect age to start budgeting with your kids. They are old enough to understand, to learn from mistakes, to benefit from good choices.

True Expenses in YNAB are non-monthly bills and expenses like auto insurance, holiday gifts, or a tuition bill.

We recently took the YNAB team on a retreat. We save for it all year long and when we spend on it, it's guilt free.

No financial number offers a complete picture of your financial stability or flexibility. Learn what the age of money says about your budget.

Betterment is an investing option that helps you hit every investing rule listed above, while making the whole process simple.

"Revealed" is such a hokey marketing word. But I just returned from MicroConf in Vegas and hokey marketing is on the brain. In working with a lot of small business YNABers over the past little while, I was asked how I (Jesse) have set up YNAB's (the business) categories in YNAB (the software).

If you’re a college student, we’ll let you use YNAB for free for a whole year — so you can start your next chapter in control of your money.

The perceived conflict between a month-based budget layout and other-than-monthly pay schedules has confused many of us. Here's how to do it.

I may never achieve a 50% savings rate (as Mr. Money Mustache encourages). But it’s such a compelling ideal that I’ve resolved to start generally wandering in that direction.

It’s going to be tight, but you can do it. Getting out of debt involves one big decision followed by small, daily decisions.

When you borrow to buy anything that depreciates, you’re negotiating a pay cut with your future self. Take 14 minutes to watch this TedTalk...

I want a fat purse, and I like the simplicity of taking 10 cents of every dollar earned and saving it for the future. Learn how much to save.