December 2011 - Free Money Management, Software, and Fun Stuff

Your Money

Mint.com makes keeping your money in your pocket fun and interesting. They provide colorful charts to tell you exactly where you are spending and automatically create a budget, which you can customize, based on your spending habits. The upside is you can get a better handle on your money. The downside is you can’t hide from spending too much on designer shoes and technology gadgets. Because it is web based you can view your spending on your Smartphone or computer with Internet access. All for the low cost of free.

Free Software

Open source software is software by a community of technology specialists who volunteer their talent and time to create free high quality software. Writer is the free word processing software from OpenOffice.org. Writer allows you to create documents with many of the features and formatting Microsoft Word including templates for business plans. There are additional steps required to ensure Microsoft Word users can open a document created in Writer. Click here for our video and printable instructions by Hurston Hughes. You can download Writer and the Open Office software suite free at http://why.openoffice.org/.

Fun & Free

Enjoy the sounds of your favorite artist and new similar artist on Pandora at http://www.pandora.com

Free movie rental from Redbox when you register at http://www.redbox.com/

Play games and keep in touch with friends far away games.yahoo.com

Send a New Year’s gr free e-card http://www.hallmark.com/

Communication is free. Send me an email at sheri@saywhatfreestuff.com