FI and I decided when we set a wedding date that we wanted to keep our wedding low budget. While we dont have a real firm budget the goal is to keep it as low as possible so we have the money we've put away for other things, mostly getting through the period of time he'll be waiting for his work visa when he comes into the states.
So we've been dumping all the wedding money into one of my mom's savings account that is like 9 million years old and has a really high interest rate. Which for a while was awesome, and my mom was so sweet to let us do that. But since we've started to use that money its become a real pain in the rear. It means my mom has to move the money into my checking account or get me cash or whatever to make it work. I don't want to make her do that for us, she's so good to me.
But I thought hmmm it would be awesome to have a way to track every purchase how much when where and know now much I have left in my budget. I do this on excel already but I tend to get lazy and fail to list every transaction if its under $30.
So I decided to get a prepaid debit card, I can see how much is left on it, get a statement from it etc. I did a lot of homework and found one with a low fee on it, $0.99 a month. My mom and FI told me I was anal retentive. I was just curious how everyone else who is on a budget is handeling theirs.
