Personal Consumer Issues • Does anybody regret pulling the plug on Quicken?

I have a couple of friends who use older versions of it as a checkbook. They just manually type in each check, no downloads. They prefer it to a worksheet and have been using it for 20 years or more. At some point, they didn't want to keep updating the version and didn't want the bank communication.

That description fits.

I have used Quicken mainly for tracking expenses and have all non-cash (and large cash) expenses in our Quicken database since the early 90s. It has settled many discussions over the years on when we got X or how much we paid for X or even Wow - we just made profit on selling X we bought 20 years ago. Things like auto maintenance, we have very accurate long-term operational and maintenance costs of $$$ put into our vehicles, from fuel to oil filters from Walmart, or oil from Costco.

I only upgraded once (for free) to Quicken 98 to be Y2K compatible. I'm still running that version on a 1995 Powermac. I usually update receipts once or twice a week, when doing bills. Especially now that everything is electronic and no statements, it acts as a double check of all the online information, balances, cost basis, etc.

Hopefully not regret, but I will miss it when its gone. We'll see how long the Powermac lasts.

Statistics: Posted by Nver2Late — Sun Dec 15, 2024 11:11 am — Replies 20 — Views 975

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