We've been using Mint to keep track of all our expenses since 2010. We find it to be great to track simple daily/weekly expenses. But to see trends over time, I download the CSV data and postprocess it in Jupyter and Tableau to generate this:
The labels were manually added on to the image to point these things out:
- we moved in 2015, had finished the basement of our earlier house in 2013 and the new one in 2018. (We don't have two basements :))
- this also is seen in the monthly home payments going up in 2015 and the one-time moving expenses in 2015.
- the fed. taxes in 2018 were because of an underpayment from a stock grant
- my partner was doing their masters between 2011-2015
- we paid off our mortgage in dec 2019, so no more house payments (yay!)
- the data in 2nd and 3rd images have the car, basements and tax expenses removed to make it easier to compare the trends over time
Edit:formatting
Submitted April 15, 2020 at 05:40PM by quietdesolation https://ift.tt/2xxAoFA
