Jesse Mecham

Consider not just your money management, but also money principles that will keep you grounded when everything around you is in flux.

The vast majority of people out there using YNAB have not heard of the new YNAB. On Dec.30, last year, we launched our minimum viable product. And now, we feel like we have a fully viable product.

Just in case you missed it, we recently launched Reports. At some point, eventually, I promise we will stop screaming about it, but at this point, we are still pretty excited.

Today I’ll dig into the Net Worth report. What does it mean? How can you use it? What will it do for you? Check it out!

We're all budgeters, but there are many different ways to approach it. Some are certainly more unique than others.

Recently, my good buddy, Mr. Money Mustache, featured me on his blog. One of the questions he asked me about was fitness, “How do you do the fitness thing? How do you fit it all in?” I have always loved fitness, but lately, I’ve been extra busy, not thinking about it nearly as much.

Today, I want to talk, just briefly, about bench pressing and budgeting. I bring up bench pressing, not because it's the most useful lift; it's not. (Everyone knows that's the squat.) But the bench press is the most popular, especially if you're a high school boy.

Everything we do at YNAB has a pretty singular goal: To help people reduce financial stress. And one of the best ways we can do that is to make your financial life very boring. Just so incredibly boring. As the boring-ness of your finances increase, so does your contentment, peace, and control.

Budgeting can seem like a big, serious undertaking. But really, if you have 20 minutes a month, you can budget. Read for a quick run through.

Today I want to talk about how to save for a down payment. But here is a pro tip: you could erase down payment and write in anything you want, because saving is saving is saving. But this is a big one.

Today, I’m mostly talking to you, college students and parents: You can get through college debt-free. Here's how I did it.

As you are shopping for a car or any big purchase, ask yourself, “What message am I sending? Am I doing it on purpose? And why?”