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Spacewolf
May 19, 2014
OK, to describe my situation in general terms:

I'm 30 y/o, unemployed, male. Looking for work, but until that particular minor miracle happens, I'm on SSI (because I'm disabled), plus I get a check from Social Security retirement (not from me, from my dad's credits, because I was disabled as a baby) - point is, the total from the two checks is something like $697 or so.

Note carefully the bit about two checks. Because the government is weird, some months they don't come at the same time. (usually, one check comes on the first, the other on the third, but sometimes...not so much!) Meanwhile, I regularly have $634 in bills due *every month* on the fifth of each month (it used to be the third, but then I pointed out to my parents (AKA my landlords) that that was a heck of a risk of an overdraft basically because of the way the autopay stuff at the credit union works (the money *out* is processed before the money *in*, bizarrely) - they agreed it was no problem on their end to get the money automatically on the fifth, fortunately). Rent and other stuff.

I'm looking for budgeting software, thus, just to help me track things easier than Mint.com and stuff. (Also, I really would like to keep data stored locally, not on the internet.)

At the same time, I'm looking for work as a paralegal - my first job after taking a few years to do paralegal schooling at my local community college. Law firms (and other employers of paralegals/legal assistants/pick your term) tend to pay, I am told, twice a month...I would like a budgeting software that can work with that.

On the technical front, I use Windows 8.1 Update on a laptop, so kindly exclude the solely Mac or Linux offerings. :)

Price of the software is important, but I'm not sure what the usual price points *are* these days.

Anybody willing to help?

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Spacewolf
May 19, 2014
I've heard that YNAB doesn't play well with getting more than one paycheck or benefits check a month? Is that true, or did I misread something?

Spacewolf
May 19, 2014
Ah.

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