My Money Tree more than just a pretty picture

The value of your “My Money Tree” feature in OOTD budgeting may strike at first as just a pretty picture attached to your budgeting numbers, but it really goes much beyond a pretty picture once you start using it.

Many say that finding the element of fun in what is traditionally considered a boring chore of which budgeting is probably high on the list, is in itself something of tangible value if it helps turn a chore that we are not very motivated to do into something that is more appealing and fun to do.  In that sense the pictorial dimension that My Money Tree brings to your white budgeting page full of numbers, is a refreshing change that also helps get a clearer picture of what the numbers mean without thinking like an accountant.

Still in My Money Tree there is another benefit even bigger than seeing clear pictures of your financial health through budgeting.  It encourages you to become a good budgeter and do one of the most important things in budgeting, stick with it, keep at it, properly finish and close each budgeting period (normally a month) and starting the next, and the next and the next.  Because My Money Tree really is about monitoring, analyzing and showing you your budgeting periods that you have completed and closed in your OOTD budget account.

In order to use My Money Tree, you need to not only close properly your budgeting periods, but be consistent with doing so period after period.  This is where the value comes from My Money Tree, and this is how you can find yourself becoming a good budgeter while having fun and also benefiting from the clear financial history in both numbers and pictures that My Money Tree saves for you to look at and analyze further any time.

The more budgeting history you accumulate, the better budgeter you will become and the more you will benefit financially.  Try it, all the tools are here, for free.  I use it daily and cannot imagine being in good control of my money without it.

Shony